Chuck Todd Sounds Off On Trump's Impact On American Life
By: Charlie Nash (Mediaite)
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Former NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd declared on Thursday that President Donald Trump would go down in history as the most consequential American president since Franklin D. Roosevelt during a monologue about living in "the age of Trump."
Reacting on The Chuck ToddCast to the ten-year anniversary of Trump's golden escalator ride at Trump Tower - which marked the beginning of his 2016 Republican presidential campaign - Todd said, "Let's just say, it's been a transformational ten years for the Republican Party, for American politics, for Washington, D.C., for the global world order. It's not been small."
He continued:
In fact, there was a moment in my recent Noosphere conversation with Steve Bannon… where he turned to me looking for some affirmation about an issue and he asked, he goes, "Will you concede we are living in the age of Trump?" and I didn't hesitate because he's right. I said yes, because we are.
In fact, its been ten years since Donald Trump descended down that escalator and ten years since a reality TV host, real estate promoter entered the political bloodstream, and whatever you want to call the moment - performance art, populist revolt, ego trip - it has turned into something far more enduring. One flukey win in the electoral college could have been chalked up as an accident of history, and in fact if he had only won in '16 and never come back, that is how he would have been seen, an accident of history, more like Jimmy Carter or somebody like that.
But what's followed? The staying power of Trump. The man, the movement, and now the comeback. It's not an accident, it looks like we're in the middle of a realignment. We're not talking about a blip, we're talking about a decade, which means we're probably gonna be talking about a generation.
Todd remarked, "You might say he'll just be a chapter in the history books, but I'd argue he'll be a long chapter. He's already gonna be a longer chapter than Grover Cleveland, the last guy to serve non-consecutive terms as president. He'll be longer than most modern presidents because Trump didn't just change his party, he changed the job, he changed the expectations, and he's changed the culture, and that's probably the biggest impact he's made."
The former NBC News host concluded, "In fact, Donald Trump's impact on American politics and society is unlike anything I've seen in my lifetime. It's greater than Obama, something I would not have conceded a few years ago. It's greater than Clinton. It's greater even than Reagan. You'd probably have to go back to FDR to find an American president who so thoroughly did a couple of things. He redefined the boundaries of the presidency and the shape of the national psyche."
Watch above via The Chuck ToddCast.
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People who pay attention have known for some time that Chuck Todd is a worthless piece of crap. Now he has cemented that status.