Charlie Rose to Peggy Noonan: ‘Is This the Beginning of the End’ of Trump?
ROSE: “CBS contributor Peggy Noonan is with us, she is Wall Street Journal columnist. She also worked for two Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Good morning.”
NOONAN: “Good morning.”
ROSE: “So what do you think this whole controversy about Donald Trump is doing to the Republican Party?”
NOONAN: “Well, to the party I’m not sure. A, it's a little bit early. The election is 14, 15 months from now. But, B, I actually don't think people experience Donald Trump as a Republican. They experience Donald Trump as Donald Trump. He is his own brand. So he is right now his own drama.”
ROSE: “Is this the beginning of the end, you think, for him?”
NOONAN: “I don't know. I think we're about to find out if he can learn lessons and get serious and have self discipline.”
ROSE: “There are a lot to ask about –“
NOONAN: “It is. But look, when he broke through on the past few months, it was because he was talking about big issues, immigration, get America back on track, look on policy proposal. In the past three or four days, he's devolved into this guy who is just splenetic and insulting everybody, and putting down women who are like 52 or 53 percent of the voting electorate in the presidential year. So that’s all crazy, it can't be doing him any good.”