Don't fall for the fake
By Dean Obeidallah
Updated 1:36 PM ET, Sun July 9, 2017
The fake Trump is the one who shows glimmers of being thoughtful, informed and presidential. We saw that Trump during his speech in Poland this week, when the Wall Street Journal editorial board, which has slammed Trump in the past, referred to his remarks as "Trump's defining speech." Trump apparently loved the editorial so much it's now on the White House website.
Sure, that speech was "presidential," with sentences like: "The triumph of the Polish spirit over centuries of hardship gives us all hope for a future in which good conquers evil, and peace achieves victory over war." But let's be blunt: Those words scream fake Trump.
The real Trump -- the one many of us knew on "The Apprentice" and were reintroduced to when he declared his bid for the presidency in 2015 -- was on display that same day at a press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda. When a reporter asked Trump if he would finally acknowledge that Russia was behind the meddling in our 2016 election, he did not offer measured words wrapped in beautiful prose.
Instead, we got the real Trump telling us, "I think it very well could be Russia, but I think it could very well have been other countries. I think a lot of people interfere...Nobody really knows. Nobody really knows for sure" ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/09/opinions/fake-vs-real-trump-opinion-obeidallah/index.html
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