Trump Is Caught in a Double Bind

After seven-plus years of performing the same act, Donald Trump is finding it harder and harder to surprise his audience.

But despite his , he sure is trying. Last week, he used his Truth Social site to share (or “ReTruth,” in the platform’s tortured jargon) a promoting the . A day later, he told a conservative Pennsylvania radio host that if he was reelected president, he would “very, very seriously” consider for their roles in the January 6 insurrection, and said that he was financially assisting some defendants. (.) Then this past weekend, he hosted a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where—among other lowlights—he attacked the current president as an “enemy of the state” while the autocrats Xi Jinping that Republican officials who didn’t aid him should be “ashamed of themselves.”