It took less than 48 hours for Donald Trump to revert to form after his much-praised pivot to unity following an apparent assassination attempt during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. The shift served as a reminder to anyone credulous enough to have been taken in by his performance that the leopard does not change its spots. Through attrition and capitulation, the bar has been set so low for Trump by the media that the president not blaming the people who were nearly shot was somehow praiseworthy.
On Saturday night, Trump stood before reporters in the White House’s Brady Briefing Room after an armed 31-year-old man from Torrance, California, was stopped by the Secret Service trying to storm the Washington Hilton in what appears to be an attempted attack on Trump and his gathered Cabinet. The president sounded chastened. “We have to — we have to resolve our differences,” he told the press, a group he has spent the better part of a decade labeling enemies of the people. Some in the press corps, exhausted and rattled after a gunman interrupted their dinner, were grateful for the crumbs.
