Trump’s Carefully Scripted Week Kept Veering Off Script

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Despite calls by his advisers to absorption connected the issues, erstwhile President Donald J. Trump has made it wide that helium intends to support moving his run his way.

Donald J. Trump successful  the backmost  spot   of a car, wearing a bluish  suit   and reddish  tie.
“I person to bash it my way,” erstwhile President Donald J. Trump precocious told reporters astir his campaign.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

Michael C. BenderMichael Gold

Aug. 24, 2024, 5:06 a.m. ET

Donald J. Trump’s governmental endurance this twelvemonth has been attributed successful portion to voters’ faded memories astir wherefore they denied him a 2nd word 4 years ago.

The erstwhile president is doing his champion to punctual them.

Despite a cautiously scripted week of run events aimed astatine counterprogramming the Democratic National Convention, Mr. Trump undercut overmuch of his messaging with a bid of off-the-cuff remarks, rants and blunders that threatened to stoke the benignant of Republican anxiousness helium has spent overmuch of the past period trying to tamp down.

On Monday successful Pennsylvania, helium struggled to clarify a erstwhile remark that helium believed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which honors civilians, was “much better” than the Medal of Honor fixed to subject members. On Tuesday successful Michigan, helium claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris had won the Democratic information aft a “vicious, convulsive overthrow of a president" and called Chicago, which hosted the Democratic convention, “a warfare portion that’s worse than Afghanistan.”

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Mr. Trump astatine a rally successful Wilkes-Barre, Pa., past week.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

He openly rejected proposal from allies to bounds his idiosyncratic attacks connected Ms. Harris and different Democrats during a code connected Wednesday successful North Carolina. He called the nation’s archetypal Black vice president “lazy” during a halt successful Arizona connected Thursday day and, that night, rambled during a 10-minute telephone telephone with Fox News. The anchors yet chopped him disconnected and ended the interview, but Mr. Trump picked up wherever helium had near disconnected by rapidly phoning into Newsmax.

And connected Friday, Mr. Trump concluded his week by embracing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. successful speech for his endorsement, a determination with an uncertain interaction connected tilting the contention successful his favor.


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