“When President Trump was president, you didn’t see crisis after crisis. You just didn’t see it.”
Yes. She really said it. With his face straight. (And yes, of course, he was on Fox News with Jesse Watters).
The crisis-free administration that McEnany plans to include (among other things):
* Donald Trump was accused by the House of attempting a quid pro quo with Ukraine
* Donald Trump was indicted by the House for his role in the January 6 Capitol Uprising, an insurgency that left more than 100 police officers injured and five people killed
* The Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the United States
That’s just the big hits, eh, failures. The four years Trump spent as president were defined by chaos and crises; it seemed to attract them like moths to the flame.
What McEnany does here is classic gas lighting. Try to make yourself believe that the way you remember the last four years is wrong. That things were very beautiful and without crisis. – under Trump.
The point: McEnany’s comment is no accident. It’s part of a concerted effort to shed light on the United States on how the last four years really were.