Donald Trump just made it even worse for himself

For all of his empty bluster, and for all the years of headlines about him supposedly being so dangerously powerful, the real story about Donald Trump has always been very different. He’s consistently been tepid and indecisive about every political situation he’s faced, only to end up waiting to take action until it’s too late. Now we’re seeing it yet again.

By the time Trump took the stage on Sunday at his New York City rally, he already knew that the backlash was underway about his featured speaker’s attack on Puerto Rico. Yet Trump spent his speech tepidly acting like it had never happened, refusing to either own the controversy or distance himself from it.

Even after the scandal got even uglier on Monday, Trump still tepidly did nothing about it, before finally announcing on Monday night that he would hold an emergency press conference on Tuesday morning. Was this the moment when he was going to apologize, or try to change the subject, or what?

As it turned out, Trump showed up more than an hour late to his own press conference (despite not having anything on his schedule prior to the press conference), and proceeded to say a whole lot of nothing. By the time it was over, all he’d done was make the whole thing even worse, because the resulting media narrative was about how he’d failed to address his Puerto Rico scandal.

Whatever this press conference was supposed to be about, whatever Trump was supposed to say, he clearly didn’t go through with it. Instead, once he finally found the nerve to take the stage, he just got up there and babbled about nothing. It shows the level of hesitation that Trump has toward his every move, and the sheer degree of dysfunction within his inept and collapsing campaign.