On Monday’s episode of « The Andrew Klavan Show, » bestselling author Andrew Klavan explained the mistake President Trump made with Vladimir Putin at their Helsinki summit — and how he actually fell into the same logical trap that the left often does.
On Monday’s episode of « The Andrew Klavan Show, » bestselling author Andrew Klavan explained the mistake President Trump made with Vladimir Putin at their Helsinki summit — and how he actually fell into the same logical trap that the left often does.
Trump’s mistakes, said Klavan, are always « left-wing mistakes. » As an example, Klavan pointed to Trump’s big summit with Putin on Monday. « If you pay attention when [Trump] makes a real faux pas, as I think he did this morning, it’s always a left-wing mistake, » said Klavan. « You have to remember that Trump spent most of his life as a Democrat, kind of trending to the left, and then he slowly became what we call ‘politically mature.’ Now I think he’s been a great conservative president, he really has been, but I’ve seen him do this before.
« The left likes to compare ‘apples to dictators,’ right? » he continued. « They treat the things that happen in our country as if they were the same as things that happen in a genuinely oppressive country. So you make a comment they don’t like – you’re Hitler. If a gay guy has to drive an extra half a mile to get a wedding cake, it’s like he’s oppressed. They didn’t throw him off a roof, but they wouldn’t give him those florets he likes on his cake because he’s gay so he’s oppressed. They’re comparing apples to dictators, and Donald Trump did that… A reporter asked him about the relationships between Russia and America, and Trump had tweeted out that we were ‘both to blame.' »
Video and transcript below:
Watch more of « The Andrew Klavan Show » here .
Listen to more of « The Andrew Klavan Show » on iTunes here .
