Longtime Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway urged the president-elect’s nonstop critics to “calm the hell down already” and help him deliver his agenda to the country. However, she conceded that is unlikely to happen.
Facing some younger critics during a 90-minute session at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics Tuesday night in Cambridge, Massachusets, the former White House counselor and former pollster said that the constant attacks on President-elect Donald Trump didn’t stop him in the campaign and won’t during his “second chance” presidency.
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But she said that many, including the media, just won’t stop.
“Unfortunately, Trump Derangement Syndrome is real,” Conway said. “You all know someone afflicted by it. It’s stage five. It wrecks the nervous system. It addles the brain. There is no vaccine, cure, or therapeutic. But you all have a role in helping people unwind from it. Sunshine, sunlight, maybe someone in their life who has a different point of view.”
In her trademark rapid-fire style, Conway both explained why Trump won and why the criticism of him and MAGA didn’t work.
“I’ll tell you what didn’t work. ‘Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.’ Trump is the adjective, the noun, the adverb. The ‘Trump, Trump, Trump.’ It just didn’t work, and so I respectfully don’t think it’s going to work as he tries to govern,” she said of the tactic used by Vice President Kamala Harris in her losing bid.
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She also said that the media failed miserably in covering the campaign and Trump, going back to his first campaign in 2016.
“The media, who I guess just has a whole living on getting elections wrong, on that they’re consistent,” she said. “They have a horrible record.”
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Conway said that the 45th president, who is the incoming 47th president, was given a rare second chance by winning for a second time. He is working overtime to get the new administration up and running.
“In this life, we all get second chances. We hope we do. But I can’t think of a second chance quite as large as the one he’s getting, all things considered,” she said.