Trump’s second chance to make a first impression

It’s appropriate that President Joe Biden, 81, prepared for the first presidential debate as though it were the hopped-up ’80s, while former President Donald Trump, only 78, got ready as if it were the breezy ’70s.

In the laid-back 1970s, people didn’t want to seem to try too hard. The fashion was to look relaxed and achieve success apparently effortlessly. Trump has engaged in a few policy discussions with his team but hasn’t bothered with mock debates or had aides shoot tough questions at him so he can practice snappy rejoinders. He’s not worrying about being caught off guard, and he acts as though success will naturally come his way.