"It's hard to grade Donald Trump, because he'll say one thing on the exam, but he'll do something completely different for the rest of the semester," Simmons told The Hill. "On the speech perhaps, it was a maybe a C or C+. He delivered it well. But by the time you see this, there may be another tweet out that completely contradicts what he said.

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"It was awful," said Krystal Ball. "The whole thing was just this grotesque, tribal, partisan spectacle that I just kind of wanted to take a shower after watching."