‘It’ll be nasty a little bit at times… but it’s going to be something’
New Indian ExpressHe died like a dog,” is not a phrase one would usually get to hear in the official speech of the US president. “He died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way,” was how the 45th president described the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the fugitive ISIS leader who blew himself up during a US military operation in Syria in 2019. The transcript of Trump’s spoken words, still available in the White House archives as a testimony to his chutzpah, illustrates the extent to which the businessman-turned-politician is ready to make a spectacle of himself, if it helps him connect with his supporters at a deeply personal level. That attitude seems to have helped him ‘bigly’ in the hotly contested 2024 presidential election which dumbfounded every other poll forecaster. But Trump would have none of it and rubbished the polls with his characteristic disdain for legacy media, saying he’s clearly winning by a comfortable margin.
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