On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol stated that “people are kidding themselves if they don’t see that today was a good day for Trump.”

Kristol said, “[I]f you step back from the trees and look at the forest, today was a very good day for Donald Trump. I say this as someone who very much hopes Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. But I just think objectively, analytically, what’s the big problem with Trump? People think he’s not — he doesn’t have the character, temperament, fitness to be president. And there he was today standing next to the president of Mexico, a country that he has insulted, the administration of Mexico, that he’s insulted, as was pointed out. He seemed — you know, it’s awkward, a little awkward. You can — we can parse what he said, and did he raise this or that. At the end of the day, it was not embarrassing. He comported himself fine. It’s a low bar for Donald Trump, but he’s done a good job of, in a way lowering the bar for himself. And honestly, the media, especially the liberal media have so lowered the bar, they treat him with such contempt, that in a sense now — I think if you’re an average swing voter, one of the 10%, 15% who are out there, as I say, you don’t really like Hillary Clinton much, you kind of like change, but boy, you’re put off by a lot that Trump has done, but you’d kind of like to persuade yourself that maybe he’s not as bad as you thought. I think — someone like me keeps saying, you can’t have Trump as president. He can’t be commander-in-chief. He can’t conduct the foreign policy of the United States, and there he is with the president of Mexico, no disaster, apparently. You know, that’s — I think that picture of him with the president of Mexico helps him a lot. I don’t know that it gets him even in the race with Hillary Clinton or anything like that, but I think people are kidding themselves if they don’t see that today was a good day for Trump.”

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