
One of Donald Trump‘s more childish tendencies is to respond to difficult questions by claiming he simply has no idea what the journalist is talking about. That can range from being quizzed about something one of his hideous underlings has said, bad economic news he’d prefer to ignore, and anything politically damaging.
But yesterday this flimsy excuse was stretched to breaking point. The MAGA world was unsettled by an unexpected victory for the Democrats in a race for a seat in Texas U.S. House, with Texans voting for a candidate who (among other things) vowed to impeach Kristi Noem and “tear ICE up from the roots”.