Meh 🫤

BREAKING: @Slate reporting there is another tape like Access Hollywood—but this time Trump is using the N-word!

Per The Apprentice producer Bill Pruitt, in 2004 Trump asked of contestant Kwame Jackson, “would America buy a n—winning?” https://t.co/eqqRUcfAhk pic.twitter.com/AGJHJJ68bt

— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) May 30, 2024

The Kepcher n-word story on Trump & the John Kelly “suckers and losers” story makes no difference without audio/video. The tape has to be released in the first instance & Kelly has to go on camera in the second. People just don’t believe anything anymore unless they see/hear it.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 30, 2024

There was audio for the “Access Hollywood” story. That story is still playing in our heads because of the New York criminal trial. And honestly, Trump saying “N——r”? Don’t we just assume he does by now?

To me, this is the more interesting story:

TV producers cobbled together footage to make 'overwhelmed' Trump 'sound sharp'https://t.co/cw27Bpiita

— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 30, 2024

"Without a doubt, the hardest decisions we faced in postproduction were how to edit together sequences involving Trump. We needed him to sound sharp, dignified, and clear on what he was looking for and not as if he was yelling at people," he wrote before adding, "While filming, he struggled to convey even the most basic items. But as he became more comfortable with filming, Trump made raucous comments he found funny or amusing—some of them misogynistic as well as racist. We cut those comments. Go to one of his rallies today and you can hear many of them."

And all that means Trump hasn’t gotten worse, we’re just learning not to see him through the lens of his TV show. Finally.

Then again, maybe the tapes would do it. But I’m not putting many eggs in that basket.🧺