Former President Donald Trump spent much of 2020 accusing then-candidate Joe Biden of campaigning from the basement while trying to avoid catching or spreading the coronavirus. Now, Trump is facing questions over campaigning from home.
At the top of MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace's "Deadline White House," former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) mocked Trump for campaigning from the back nine.
"If he wants to get out on the campaign trail and talk about his tax plan, if he wants to talk about what he is proposing for this country and he says it with any shred of truth, then he should be covered like a presidential candidate," McCaskill complained about media giving Trump too much oxygen. "Otherwise, he should just stay in his golf cart eating cheeseburgers."
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She also speculated, "That's where his campaign wants him because he isn't even campaigning this week. I think they figured out we can't shut him up, so let's shut him in and make sure he stays on the golf course. And, you know, covering the fact that he's not working at this, covering the fact that he's lying is very important. But acting as if there's some false equivalency between what Kamala Harris is campaigning on and about and what Trump is campaigning on and about doesn't serve this country well."
McCaskill is one of many arguing that the media shouldn't give Trump the attention he garnered in 2016.
Reporter Aaron Rupar, who has the newsletter Public Notice, explained that for the second time in a month, Trump has a week where he doesn't plan any events. The week before the Democratic convention, Trump told reporters at a Mar-a-Lago press conference that he wasn't going anywhere that week because of the convention. But he was a week early. It's unclear why Trump is off the campaign trail again this week.
National security lawyer Bradley Moss joked, "Those rounds of golf aren’t going to play themselves. Besides, he doesn’t want to miss the buffet line and late-night bingo."
Jeff Nesbitt, former communications head for former Vice President Dan Quayle, agreed it seemed odd.
"Trump has no actual campaign events scheduled this week. Which is just…odd. (And, no, that virtual chit chat with a small outside group on Thursday doesn’t really count)," he said.
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