NeverTrump’s Bill Kristol and Stephen Hayes Admit Trump’s Trip to Mexico Was Brilliant

Donald Trump received praise for his trip to Mexico from two VERY unlikely sources yesterday.

#NeverTrump Martyr’s Bill Kristol and Stephen Hayes who have said they would prefer to simply surrender the throne to Hillary over Trump winning, could not lie about Trump’s trip to Mexico. They praised it as Presidential and effective.

Hard when you're a challenger to seem presidential. Trump standing there–for all the awkwardness–looks presidential. Good day for Trump.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 31, 2016

Another benefit of today for Trump: His campaign showed tactical agility & operational competence. Will help w/ political pros, elite media.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 31, 2016

Meanwhile Bill’s fellow NeverTrump partner Stephen Hayes, wrote a column “Why Trump’s Risky Trip to Mexico Paid Off.”

Hillary Clinton began the general election portraying Trump as just another Republican who was likely to do nasty Republican things if he were elected president. She changed her approach at the Democratic convention, arguing instead that Trump was irrational and dangerous, unfit to serve as commander in chief. That effort culminated in her speech last week attempting to make Trump own the “alt-right” and its craziness. Trump, she argued, was unlike mainstream Republicans like Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz. He was a threat to the republic, an ignorant loudmouth who couldn’t unite the country at home and who would bungle the kinds of delicate diplomacy that she’d undertaken as secretary of state.

On Wednesday, Trump made those concerns look overblown. He stood across from the president of a country whose citizens he has often cast as villains and calmly walked through policy differences in reasonable and rational manner. His angry rants about Mexicans as rapists and criminals, about Mexican-Americans’ views shaped by their heritage, were nowhere to be heard. Trump’s sharp edges were rounded, his hot rhetoric cooler. If voters are concerned that Trump is incapable of behaving like a statesman—and many of them are—Trump showed them that at least on this day, he could. He was, ever briefly, the kind of Trump many Republican elected officials have long hoped publicly that he could become.

While both Bill Kristol and Stephen Hayes gave credit where credit was OBVIOUSLY due, don’t hold your breath expecting them to join the Trump Train.

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