'Worse than I expected': Conservatives say Trump trying to 'screw grandma out of Medicare'
Donald Trump's address to Congress was worse than some thought it would be, according to one former Republican consultant.
"Dear God, that was worse than even I expected," said Rick Wilson, who helped found the Republican anti-Trump
Lincoln Project, which is consistently filled with current and former Republicans who oppose the President, weighing in on Trump's speech, which was
also criticized by other conservatives.
"Trump’s speech last night was dull yet terrifying. It was self-referential and self-aggrandizing yet vaguely desperate," Wilson wrote Wednesday. "It was Trump at his worst, but it also showed America that all he’s got is his base and his same tired bit, his greatest hits played over and over, louder and louder, to an audience getting older, poorer, and more vicious in its demands that their umber demigod give them that old-time religion."
Wilson went on to say that it was actually "the stunning disregard for truth that set this speech apart."
"Trump opened his lie hole and sluiced a torrent of outright lies into the willing maw of his dull-eyed, bovine audience watching at home hooked to their Fox feed of amygdala-stoking fear porn," Wilson wrote. "The absurdity of his lies was rivaled only by their scope."
For its part, the anti-Trump conservatives over at the Lincoln Project had some advice for Democrats following the congressional address.
"Democrats are finally showing some fight. Now they need to take it to red districts during the break to show voters how Trump and his MAGA minions are going to screw grandma out of her Social Security and Medicare," the group wrote in its statement.
You can read Wilson's take right here.
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