Donald Trump Thinks Things Are Going to Get Better

You can tell, because he’s already trying to take credit for it.

One can be optimistic or pessimistic, depending on your personal temperament, about the first two days of the Joe Biden administration. He has, you know, an actual coronavirus plan, so we’ve got that going for us, but as for the calls for unity, his opponents are already claiming that his calls to fight white supremacy (which one would not think particularly controversial?) are in fact personal attacks against them.

So there’s some good, some bad.

But if you are currently struggling to figure out whether things are about to get better or about to get worse, you should be aware that one established commentator, albeit one who has been curiously quiet of late, is very much in former camp: Donald Trump believes things are about to turn around. You can tell, because he’s already trying to take credit for it.

Trump has not made any public appearances since his “farewell” speech on Wednesday morning, and I will confess…