Friday morning, Ben Carson endorsed Donald Trump. During the press conference, a reporter asked, when Carson “says there are two Donald Trumps, do you agree with that characterization and could you amplify on it?”
Trump affirmed, saying there are two Trumps. “I probably do agree. There are probably two Donald Trumps. The public version and people see that and I don’t know what they see exactly but it seems to have worked over my lifetime but it’s probably different I think than the personal Donald Trump. Ben said it very well today.”
Minutes later, another reporter asked, “Mr. Trump, just along the same lines, so why are there two Donald Trumps? Did you at some point make a conscious decision to behave differently in public for—”
It seems at this point, the other Trump replied. “I don’t think there are two Donald Trumps. I think there’s one Donald Trump.”
Watch the two clips put together below.
The existence of two Trumps (one of which denies the existence of the other) might help to explain his dual positions on issues like the Iraq war, immigration, and other issues.
