WaPo Editorial: Which ‘wrong thing’ does Trump regret saying, exactly?

By Editorial Board August 19 at 9:26 PM

DONALD TRUMP, you may have heard, reshuffled his staff and began sending signals that he would be more presidential. That was not a few days ago — it was four months ago.

As the candidate closed in on the Republican nomination, Mr. Trump’s new national campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, assured Republican National Committee members that the billionaire had been playing a “part” and would soon adopt a more balanced “persona.” The promised pivot did not happen, of course. Now Mr. Manafort is gone after another personnel shake-up, and Mr. Trump and his new staff are again signaling a pivot.

“Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing,” Mr. Trump said Thursday. “I have done that, and .?.?. I do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain.”

It’s unlikely Mr. Trump can suppress his instinct to bully and disparage over the remaining 81 days of the presidential campaign. It’s certain he would not do so over four years of a presidential term. His record to date leaves no doubt about his character — confirmed even Thursday, when he immediately undercut his supposed apology by adding, “Sometimes I can be too honest.”

Too honest about what?

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