President-elect Donald Trump said so many things on the campaign trail that critics warned would hurt him in November. Yet he won the popular vote.
Now, a month before Trump takes the oath of office, President Joe Biden is limiting his public appearances to such an extent that it feels like Trump already is president.
And it has felt that way since Trump attended the Dec. 7 reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, sitting near first lady Jill Biden. The sitting president had a “scheduling conflict,” according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Conflict? At Monday’s news conference in Mar-a-Lago, Trump even offered: “One of the big differences between the first term: In the first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.”
The exchange showed Trump as the opposite of Joe Biden, who was supposed to…
