David Gergen on CNN said today "for the first time, wind is now at Trump's back"

[NewsCenter28]

That's per Twitter. One of the posters had an excellent response that the SOTU normalization attempt for Trump by the media has already begun. It's interesting why the media, at every turn, tries to normalize Trump. Someone also excellently said that it's like the media are parents to toddler Trump and desperately want him to show them that they didn't screw up by fixing the election in his favour in 2016!

P.S.: I guess a strong obstruction of justice case being readied against you and Russian collusion almost assuredly about to be proved by Special Council Mueller slipped Gergen's mind.

[RainCaster]

1. That's what my wife says when I have too many tacos

[Cha]

6. lol!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. How can he think that?

I suppose it's because of the stock market but totally disregards the fact that the "president" is being investigated for obstruction of justice and money laundering. Nixon had the wind at his back for awhile, too, before the Saturday Night Massacre. Gergen should know that; he worked for Nixon.

[NewsCenter28]

5. Exactly, there's no basis for Gergen to think this

Someone said that someone must have been spinning him pretty hard in Davos (he went to Davos with Drumpf apparently).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Trump got fellated by the rich folks at Davos

who want something from him, and they probably laughed at him behind his back. The "wind at his back" was all that laughter, but Gergen apparently thinks the insincere flattery of the financial elite means something.

[Cicada]

12. Every major economy in the world doing well, helps incumbents

Millions will get tax cuts (the drag from paying back the money borrowed to finance it will come later), and the whole world economy doing good. Gergen may be right. But in 2017 dem vote in 60 special elections ran 9 points higher than Hillary. That’s a huge trade wind behind us.

[triron]

3. Gergen in a shill

[Cha]

7. Ex-Zactly!

[SHRED]

4. Gergen is traditionally all over the map

Wishy washy.

[Wounded Bear]

9. With any luck, it'll blow him right out of office...

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

10. The same Gergen, who, last speech to Congress..

Said "Trump became president tonight."

And the 32 percent approval of the past year totally proved it, eh, Dave?

[JI7]

13. That was Van Jones

[dchill]

16. Gergen, too, IIRC.

[Cha]

11. Yes, I think it's true..

"It's interesting why the media, at every turn, tries to normalize Trump. Someone also excellently said that it's like the media are parents to toddler Trump and desperately want him to show them that they didn't screw up by fixing the election in his favour in 2016!"

The US media pumped up bush and cheney and got us the War on Iraq until they couldn't coverup the bodies anymore.

[pbmus]

14. Gergen is gargling nonsense....he is so dinosaur that dinosaurs are laughing..

[melman]

15. Gergen is a clown

Always has been.

btw, remember the thread a couple months back where certain people were saying how wise Gergen is, and how he's 'demonstrated good judgement and sense for over 50 years' etc etc? lolol.

[Baconator]

17. I told my wife today...

This is the first thing I've seen from them that doesn't look like it wasn't scribbled on the back of a cocktail napkin...

They are beating us over the head with DACA because we've made it clear that is what is most important to us.

[snort]

18. The wind came from the nachos.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. Blowing him towards the White House exit gate.

I'm huffing and puffing to help him along....

It's actually the sweet smelling wind of justice.

[MFM008]

20. Did he blow ass?

It's the only time the wind is at his back.

[regnaD kciN]

21. Sad to say, I agree with him...

It was one thing when Donnie was an asshole who couldn't get anything done. The tax bill and repeal of net neutrality changed all that. Sure, they're both "accomplishments" most people hated but, as the old song goes, "nothing succeeds like success," and even taking on the semblance of effectiveness is going to boost his image significantly. As he surely knows, "everybody loves a winner"...or, if they don't exactly love him, they at least don't have contempt for him anymore.

But the biggest thing giving him the momentum is the absolute hash we made of last weekend's shutdown. It gave Trump and the G.O.P. a major victory (even anti-Trump journalists were writing about him and his party "dancing in the endzone" after we backed down). Now, in order to save DACA, we're going to have to go hat-in-hand to the White House and accept any terms he lays down (including his border wall and a 50% cut in legal immigration) or else see the Dreamers deported. The first option will give him massive credit, the second will earn us massive blame. Heads, he wins; tails, we lose.

So, yes, I see DJT on the upswing right now. Of course, he might find a way to screw things up again (but tweets and other examples of outrageous personal behavior won't do it...his antics have become normalized), but, as it is now, I'd expect his popularity to climb over the next few weeks/months; not enough to actually make him popular, but enough to narrow the gap so that he won't be a irreversible drag on his party in the midterms. And, from then on...? But he couldn't have done it without our help...

[doc03]

23. I agree. I think Trump will get a significant bump from the STOU providing

he stays on script. He will take credit for the records on Wall Street, unemployment is at record lows and people will see an
increase in their take home pay. I will see about $1000 myself. We know it was a raid on the treasury and he inherited a good economy
but unlike us a good portion of America is more concerned about who wins the Super Bowl than politics. Besides that the MSN is big business and that is who all this benefits. I am not jumping on any band wagon about any "Blue Wave". I remember 2016 when
all I heard was people dancing in the end zone before that election.

[DeminPennswoods]

22. Because Trump can read a speech written for him?

Is this because Trump can read a speech off a teleprompter relatively error-free? We all know by now that even if Trump successfully reads another speech written for him by whoever, he will step on whatever the "message" was within 24 hours. We all know there won't be a "pivot" to "presidential" behavior. It's not who Trump is, but David Gergan can keep living in his own world.

And wait until the viewing audience, most of whom will be seeing him for the first time, swoons over Joe Kennedy III. You know Chris Matthews, who just wrote a book on RFK, JK III's grandfather, and adores all things Kennedy, will be praising him no end. This will send Trump on a rampage of jealousy and envy.

[MineralMan]

24. Trump's Wind All Comes from His Backside!

Stand well back, folks!

[hatrack]

25. David Gergen is apparently still alive . . . .

.

[mac56]

26. Gergen and the rest of the circus clowns will fawn all over Dufus

if he manages to not piss himself behind the podium.

[TheBlackAdder]

27. So Gergen is saying that Trump is no longer trying to sniff his own farts - The most beautiful farts

[Hoyt]

28. You can train a seal to sit on the side of the pool for an hour and behave itself, David Frum.

Fortunately, other commentators say things like the above.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210156406

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

29. That's not the wind -- it's Mueller's hot breath blowing on his neck.