President Trump woke up at his private club in Florida on Monday and watched just enough Fox News to lift up a quote making an unfounded allegation that someone had attempted a coup against him.
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
“This was an illegal coup attempt on the President of the United States.” Dan Bongino on @foxandfriends True!
Then he went to play golf for the third day in a row.
As with the national emergency Trump announced Friday, his actions in response to the “coup” don’t really convey the sense of urgency that you might expect from his declarations. Were there are actual, active coup attempt against a president, one might expect a serious effort to address the situation. As Trump probably realizes, though, there is now and never was any such effort.
View the February 18 article by Philip Bump on The Washington Post website here.