MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin explained why he believes that Donald Trump only has himself to blame for the way that Democratic rival Kamala Harris is depicting him as “incumbent rather than the challenger” in the 2024 election.
Trump’s recent meltdown on his Truth Social platform showed he is “clearly rattled” by Harris’ tactic, Mohyeldin said on Sunday. Trump raged about the vice president “trying to make it sound like I am the incumbent President, so that they can blame me for the failure of the past four years.”
“Now, this denial from Trump would carry some weight if he hadn’t spent the last four years acting as if he is the current president,” Mohyeldin said.
“If you were living overseas and just a casual observer of American politics, I couldn’t even blame you for thinking he never left the White House,” he continued.
Trump displays “fake presidential seals at his properties” and flies “around on his Trump Force One” and “likes to act like he is still the president of the United States, especially when he conducts what certainly looks and feels like official presidential business out of his Mar-a-Lago house,” the anchor said, referencing Trump’s sit-downs with high-profile Republicans and foreign dignitaries “almost as if he’s chief diplomat” for the country.
The Republican presidential nominee reportedly “hates being referred to as the former president” but “the next time Trump wants to say he’s not running as the incumbent, he might want to blame himself for spending the last four years as a shadow president of sorts,” Mohyeldin added.
