Donald Trump News for June 2, 2016

(Trump.news) Obama…the hater? Our lame duck president seemed like he really, really wanted to rip into the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump during a speech in Indiana yesterday, but he couldn’t quite find the right words.

Or, any words, actually.

Obama tried to turn in a fiery performance but instead only managed to spew stuttering, incoherent diatribe at Trump. See the disaster below:

Wow. Just…wow. [H/T The Gateway Pundit]

The year of the outsider: As we’ve watched Trump’s meteoric rise – to the top of the GOP ticket and in national polls – pundits galore have tried to explain how such an unconventional candidate could take the political world by storm. The reality is, perhaps it is just as simple as this: Trump is the right guy, at the right time: A political outsider in an era when an increasing number of Americans have realized that the political class they have returned to D.C. year after year is failing…at everything. Writes U.S. Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., at The Washington Post this morning:

Republican voters have sent the Washington establishment a message in the form of our presidential nominee. It is loud, and it should be clear.

Yet, a small enclave of career politicians within our party is still struggling to understand the mass appeal of Donald Trump. These D.C. insiders are so caught up in the Washington bubble that they failed to realize the world around them has changed.

For too long, career politicians have over promised and under-delivered. The constant gridlock and lack of results in Washington is unacceptable. We have a political system that protects those in power and leaves the American people behind.

Georgians sent a strong message to the establishment in my Senate race by electing an outsider to the political process. We now see that same movement sweeping across the country, and we should welcome it. Sen. Perdue’s entire column is here.

The one economic measure that is driving Trumpmania: Your pay or, rather, your lack of it.

As noted by Alexis Simendinger of RealClearPolitics, stagnant pay is really hurting the middle class, which has been devastated in the Age of the Obama Economy (remember when everything bad about the economy was George W. Bush’s fault?):

Plenty of American workers, fearful about their financial well-being and their perch in the middle class, believe that economists, politicians and President Obama have it wrong.

Many voters say they greet public discussions about a robust U.S. economy with skepticism because they and their communities continue to feel the effects of losses during the Great Recession. They know that workers haven’t seen wages climb, as promised, even as companies resumed hiring, experienced productivity gains, and pocketed new profits.

Simendinger also notes that a Hillary Clinton presidency would essentially become a third Obama term, while Trump has noted that Obama’s economy has been a “disaster.” Trump obviously gets it.

Read this first of a five-part series here.

No, the #nevertrump crowd has not gone away, but they have been unable to craft a coherent anti-Trump strategy, thanks in large part to the presumptive GOP nominee’s almost magical ability to outmaneuver them (what does that say for the political class’s lack of understanding their own electorate when they are so badly outclassed by a political neophyte?). Writes Caitlin Huey Burns of RealClearPolitics:

When one of Donald Trump’s most outspoken Republican opponents proposed a little-known conservative writer as the long-awaited alternative to the party’s presumptive nominee, the “Never Trump” movement, such as it was, appeared lifeless. The failure to draft a party star to wage an independent bid was considered the nail in the coffin.

But among those who consider themselves Never Trump diehards, there are differences of opinion about how to be most effective in their opposition.

For some, like Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, it apparently has meant fielding a candidate — relatively obscure writer and lawyer David French — to give conservatives ideologically opposed to Trump a way out and to more effectively help GOP candidates down the ballot.

But others don’t believe rallying behind an alternative candidate is necessarily the solution.

Kristol and his allies in the #nevertrump movement are tools and a sore losers; there is no other way to say it. Read the rest of Burns’ column here.