Kamala Harris has been criticising Donald Trump for ducking interviews. Today, however, she avoided a sit-down with the Economic Club of Chicago. Trump, by contrast, showed up and spent an hour facing difficult questions from Bloomberg News’s editor-in-chief John Micklethwait.
It was, like all the best Trump appearances, a magnificently weird occasion. Who needs LSD when you can watch him as a presidential candidate, eight years in, still melting reality live on YouTube?
If Kamala Harris speaks in confusing word salads, Trump speaks in even more baffling fruit jellies
Micklethwait is a brilliant man: polished, Ampleforth and Oxford, highly successful. His hair is coiffed and his loafers look expensive. For the benefit of the affluent audience, he endeavoured to have a serious conversation as to the concerns rich people have about a second Trump term. He asked about tariffs, growth, China, Putin, monopolies, immigration and 6 January.
But Trump is a rude 78-year-old force of nature, an economic populist who says the Wall Street Journal has been ‘wrong about everything’ – and the Wall Street Journal-reading crowd seems to love him for it.
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