Glenn Beck took to Twitter last night to express a heartfelt apology to President Trump and his family for the things “he said and believed” about him back in 2016:
1). I am feeling so humbled this week. I feel truly horrible for the things I said and believed in 2016 about @realDonaldTrump . I believed the worst politically, which he proved me wrong at almost every turn. In the most dramatic cases (life/Israel/China/authoritarian) cont
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 28, 2020
2. I expected @realDonaldTrump to take control federally at the first opportunity. Here we are in a massive crisis. Bush ‘violated the free market to save the free market.’ Trump could have violated federalism to ‘save federalism’ yet he has stood firm through COVID. Con’t
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 28, 2020
3. But let me cut to the chase. I believed he actually didn’t care about people. When @realDonaldTrump called me after my fathers death, I assigned the motive to politics – AND SAID SO. What haunts me this week is how my words must have hit his children. How … con’t
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 28, 2020
4. Did I miss, the sharpness of my ‘judgement’ without consideration of family. Me? A guy who has lived it from his side. I wanted to end my interview with @realDonaldTrump son this week w/ a personal apology, who had spent 20 minutes with me as if we were old friends. Con’t
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 28, 2020
5. I didn’t want to embarrass myself in the end and failed to do the right thing again. I don’t regret my doubts or expressing my concern in 16, but the fact that I missed his humanity and was blind to his family. I said at the time, ‘I hope I am wrong and will…’ con’t
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 28, 2020
6. Will be the first to admit it.’I did. On air and personally to the president himself.But it was all about politics. I knew he loved his children and they him. What I failed to see, is the reason I think they love him. @realDonaldTrump is a loud New Yorker with a private heart
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 28, 2020
There are a lot of people these days who still can’t see the humanity of Trump and I’m so happy that Beck is posting this. And he’s not alone. I’ll be the first to admit that after a rough primary fight, it wasn’t easy to get onboard the Trump train. I voted for him at the time but was still concerned about him being president as he was loud, boisterous, nasty and quite frankly, unknown.
But as I tell people now, a lot has happened since 2016 to change my mind about Trump. He has been a much better president than I ever expected and the media’s unrelenting attacks on him has made me far more empathetic to him and his presidency. Now I’m firmly in his corner. Is he a perfect president? By no means. He’s made plenty of mistakes and disappointed me along the way. But looking at all he has accomplished and looking forward to the radical socialist alternative, perhaps President Trump is the best president we could have at this time.