Tax plan? Muslim ban? Build that wall? Cut taxes for all? Eh, you know, they’re just suggestions.
Calling into "Fox & Friends," his final television hit of the morning, Trump was asked by co-host Brian Kilmeade about the response to his comment that his Muslim ban was "just a suggestion."
"Yeah. It was a suggestion. Look, anything I say right now, I'm not the president," Trump said. "Everything is a suggestion, no matter what you say, it's a suggestion."
Think of it as blanket flip-flop insurance. Trump can “suggest” anything right now. Like how he’s going to cut taxes, build infrastructure, double the size of the military, and generate a yuuuge budget surplus. Or like how he’s going to leave NATO, make pals with Putin, blackmail Mexico, and reassure our allies that we can be trusted.
None of that stuff has to make sense. None of it has to be consistent day to day or even sentence to sentence. Trump’s campaign so far is just one big spaghetti-flinging expedition, with no promise that any of these “suggestions” is actually going to stick.
But for Trump’s fans, this doesn’t matter. They’re not buying into a plan. It’s obvious to everyone that there is no plan. They’re buying into the idea of the strong, powerful man who tells them what to do.
Trump has suggestions. He’s voters are suggestible. It’s a perfect match.