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It is a really tough job being one of Trump's sycophants.
It is tough enough that they are often tasked with having to defend the indefensible. Whatever obviously horrible comments Trump makes they are left to defend. It is tough and it often leaves them looking foolish, but it is the job they have chosen.
However, they have the even tougher job of trying to defend Trump's policies. Not only are the policies usually indefensible, but they are also incoherent, not well thought out, but are at the whims of whomever the President last spoke to. This means they often really look foolish because the line of faux BS they are trying to get everyone to buy can change at the drop of a hat.
Such as it has been with the tariffs. Sec. Bessent, Peter Navarro, Ms. Leavitt, etc. have all been spending the past few days convincing everyone that Trump's tariffs were the greatest thing since sliced bread. Tariffs were going to solve the deficit problem and make rainbows shoot out of unicorn horns. They were the greatest thing in the world.
Then just 3 market days later, Trump reverses himself and delays the tariffs for 90 days making all of these people look like fools. Trump was backing off his tariffs policy (why make everyone wait 90 days for unicorn rainbows???).
What I don't understand is why some people are willing to defend the indefensible and often look like an idiot defending the obvious idiocy. I mean I know why Sec. Bessent, Peter Navarro, Ms. Leavitt, etc. all do it. They are well paid to constantly be made to look like a fool (the clowns at Ringling Bros. circus are jealous of their pay) and they want to stay in the good graces with their boss hopeful to pick up some more crumbs.
But why do other people do it?
Take Dope, his initial take was that the tariffs were lunacy, but then he backtracked and decided it would be worth it to look like a fool in order to defend the indefensible. Why? He isn't getting paid to look like an idiot. It isn't going to get him any closer to Trump. Why does he do it?
