“Turning point.” “Bipartisan.” “Presidential.” “New Trump.” Those are the kinds of phrases you can expect to see in tomorrow’s headlines if, as expected, Trump reads his speech from a teleprompter and doesn’t talk about “American carnage.”
Don’t believe it–not for a minute. We’ve seen enough to know what he is, and he isn’t going to change in any meaningful way. And by the way, the bar for an acceptable speech should not be the ability to stand and read for an hour.