A man who has spent a lot of time with Donald Trump explained on Saturday how he thinks Vice President Kamala Harris is getting under his skin. Trump biographer Tim O'Brien, author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald , appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to discuss the former president and the upcoming election. Earlier in the interview, O'Brien noted that Trump could lose half of his entire net worth if he doesn't win back the presidency in November .
After that portion of the interview, O'Brien was asked whether or not Harris got under Trump's skin at the Democratic National Convention. The host played a clip of Trump insulting Harris' looks at the event. ALSO READ: Trump is losing his audience "I think she got under his famously thin skin weeks ago, the second the mantle was passed on to her from Joe Biden because of the renewed energy in the campaign, and I think the Democrats had about 140,000 volunteers come out of the woodwork in the four weeks since she was named as the Democratic flag bearer and she is getting all this enthusiasm that Trump has lost and he is deadly aware of that," O'Brien said before explaining his view on why Trump is so threatened by the current vice president.
"He's also deadly aware of her celebrity power. He isn't a student of many things but he is a student of celebrity and I think he recognizes that she brings an unusual charisma here," he said. "So, the statements he's making say more about him than her, and he has been very focused and made all sorts of comments about her beauty, about her smile, about how she speaks, and he is clearly obsessed with it and afraid of it.
" Watch below or click here. Donald Trump could potentially lose more than just the presidential race in November, his own biographer said Saturday. Tim O'Brien, author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald , appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to discuss what the host deemed the former president's "struggling" social media network, Truth Social.
Specifically, O'Brien was asked about how much of Trump's net worth is wrapped up in the site, which has seen its stock sinking. According to O'Brien, "probably about half of his net worth, at least" is tied up in the company. ALSO READ: Donald Trump exploits AP photo error for new $99 'Save America' book "That is all on paper, you never know with Trump.
He carries a lot of debt. But I would think at least half of his net worth is the $2.7 billion or so stake in Truth Social," O'Brien said.
He went on to say that "we are in a very unusual position of having a publicly traded stock which is actually a barometer for Trump's political fortunes because the business model for Truth Social is nothing more than the cult of Donald Trump's personality and social media presence." "It has never really gotten off the ground as an independent business, as you noted, it has minimal revenue and loses a lot of money. The stock is down over 50 percent over the last six months.
It is because his political fortunes have started to trend down and, without Trump the president at the helm of Truth Social, Truth Social as a magnetic force or a social media dialogue is basically nonexistent," he added. He went on to say that the stock bumped up after the assassination attempt on Trump because his political fortunes looked much better leading into to Republican National Convention. However, according to the biographer, "since then all of the momentum has gone to the Democrats," causing the stock to weaken again.
If Trump loses in November, according to O'Brien, "the value in it, it becomes negligible." "I can't say it goes to zero but it climbs even more dramatically from where it is," he added. "The prospects for this company aren't good.
" Watch below or click here. Late Friday, the editorial board of the conservative Wall Street Journal raised the red flag that a Senate with a Democratic majority and Vice President Kamala Harris in the Oval Office after November will dismantle the 60-vote filibuster rule that has long stymied liberal lawmakers. As the editors noted, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been boasting that a solid Democratic majority could mean that the rule will be "a goner.
" In an interview this week, the Democratic leader noted that Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have kept Democrats from even bending the rules to help pass legislation and that, after November, "Well, they’re both gone.” ALSO READ: Donald Trump exploits AP photo error for new $99 'Save America' book That led the WSJ editorial board to lament, "This should put a chill into Republicans, independents, moderates, and swing voters.
Democrats claim they merely want to bend the filibuster to protect abortion and voting rights. Yet that would break it for good. The pressure would be immense to add other exceptions, such as to restructure the Supreme Court , make Washington, D.
C., a state with two Democratic Senators, or ban state right-to-work laws." Noting that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has indicated she is on board with what would be a ground-shifting change, the editors continued, "All of this raises the stakes for the Senate races this year.
West Virginia aside, Democrats are leading now in every tossup race except for Montana. And there the incumbent, Jon Tester, is barely trailing his GOP challenger, businessman Tim Sheehy. Mr.
Tester is refusing to endorse Ms. Harris to cover his progressive voting record, and Mr. Schumer will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to keep that seat.
" RELATED: Mitch McConnell shares GOP's ‘worst nightmare’ scenario of a Harris-Walz White House "With Mr. Trump now trailing in the presidential race , Senate control may determine how radical a Harris Presidency would be. GOP candidates can sound the alarm," they warned.
You can read more here. Being “that woman from Michigan” as former President Donald Trump once called Gov. Gretchen Whitmer , isn’t the insult he thinks it is, she said on stage at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night.
“Being a woman from Michigan is a badge of honor,” Whitmer exclaimed, received by applause from the Chicago audience filled with other women from other states wearing white outfits like hers as an homage to the suffragettes who fought for women’s right to vote over 100 years ago. Women have a long history of “GSD” Whitmer said, censoring her usual “get sh-t done” call to action to “get stuff done” to the laughter of the convention attendees. Whitmer has been frequently mentioned as a future presidential candidate.
She was considered to be on the presidential ticket by both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in 2020 and 2024, respectively. Whitmer also gave a speech at the 2020 DNC , which was virtual due to the pandemic. A member of a “sandwich generation,” Whitmer told attendees about entering the Michigan state House at 29 years old, giving birth to her first daughter while caring for her mother, who was dying of brain cancer.
“It was hard, but not extraordinary. It’s life,” Whitmer said, adding that it underscored why she entered government. “Those nights reminded me who I was fighting for, people just trying to make it.
Kamala Harris knows who she’s fighting for, too. She took care of her mom, who also battled cancer. As president, she’ll fight to lower the cost of health care and elder care for every family.
She’s lived a life like ours. She knows us,” Whitmer said. “Donald Trump doesn’t know you at all.
You think he understands that when your car breaks down, you can’t get to work? No, his first word was probably ‘chauffeur.’” Trump has never had to check to make sure he could afford all of his items at the checkout line, Whitmer said, questioning if Trump has ever “been to a grocery store.” America needs a strong leader who can handle a crisis because they’ve lived a life similar to the rest of the country where things go wrong and people still need to pay their bills, take their kids to school and go to work, Whitmer said.
The past few years have been riddled with crises, Whitmer told the convention, in the form of floods, fires, the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
Capitol by Trump’s supporters and the 2020 plot to kidnap Whitmer in 2020. “We don’t know what the next four years will bring, but what we do know is this, through it all your life won’t stop. .
.. And then one day, when you’re just trying to get everyone out the door, a news alert goes off, something happened, something hit the fan.
You’ll ask, ‘Is my family going to be OK?’ And then you’ll ask, ‘Who the hell is in charge?’ What if it’s him? What if it’s that man from Mar-a-Lago?” Whitmer said. In a crisis, the country needs someone who’ll tell the truth and make a plan, Whitmer said. And though no one gets to choose what catastrophes and trials America will face, voters have the opportunity in November to choose who’ll be in charge.
“Why wouldn’t we choose the leader who’s tough, tested and a total badass,” Whitmer asked the crowd. “I know who I want as our commander in chief. America, let’s choose Kamala Harris.
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