One sign that Don Trump is getting a slightly less delicate treatment from the press than he received during the early primaries is that occasionally, just occasionally, someone notes that his positions have been as stable as a pig on roller skates.
In an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” the host, John Dickerson, pointed out that Mr. Trump had supported military intervention in Libya and the ouster of its leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, despite the fact he now criticizes Hillary Clinton on both points.
It's a sign that Trump’s honeymoon period is having a few … performance issues. For months, the press has allowed Trump to claim prescience on any number of issues simply because he said he had uniquely predicted the outcome—even when a cursory check would show that, no, he didn't.
Mr. Dickerson played a video clip from 2011 of Mr. Trump saying: “Now, we should go in. We should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick. We could do it surgically, stop him from doing it and save these lives.”
Mr. Trump insisted that the comments had not constituted support. “I was for doing something,” he said, “but I wasn’t for what you have right now.”
Ah. So Trump favored intervention. It was just that in his mind, the results would turn out better. That’s not incredible prescience. It's just plain old delusion.