Opinion | Trump’s Address Was a ‘Lame-Duck Speech’

This speech that he gave yesterday was a lame-duck speech. -So quack quack quack. I mean, it’s the kind of almost impotent thing that presidents on their last legs do. Well, let me see if I can’t convince them to get behind me with one last go of it on the stump. And they can’t. They never can. And so the thing — I mean, the thing that’s interesting to think about, interesting, ominous, I don’t know, is that there’s still three more years of this. To me, it feels like they kind of burned themselves out this first year, kind of a maximal attempt to do everything. And as the pushback has gotten stronger, as the electoral defeats begin to mount, they have one of two choices, which is either to pull back and try to consolidate what they’ve achieved, or continue with this full-spectrum attack. And I think they’re going to try to do the latter, and I just don’t think that that’s sustainable for another year, politically or otherwise.