I strongly disagree that this is a “bus shoving”.
This is an “I don’t want to answer questions about it. I want to be seen as my own man. I want to maintain structural ambiguity.”
That's just textbook bullshit 101: give a simultaneous positive and critical reflection with no details, let the reader backfill their own expectations.
Why can't anybody actually critically interview this goddamn guy?
And Trump is less bound by his word, both to the public and his party, than anyone in history. He’ll play both sides of every issue every time and all that matters is that in the end he’s going to appoint and empower the people who kiss his ass the hardest. Who happen to be the Project 2025 people
he didn’t say the bus was moving! maybe he just like, scraped its arm against the bus.
clearly this wasn’t anything close to a full rejection! but… it’s a flesh wound.