Trump stand-in during Harris debate prep says former president has changed since 2016
Philippe Reines, who played the role of former President Donald Trump in Kamala Harris’ debate preparations, celebrated the vice president’s performance at Tuesday’s debate while reflecting on how Trump has changed since his first presidential run eight years ago.
Reines told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source” Wednesday that Harris was successful in carving out the space to remind viewers of Trump’s record while sharing her own plans for the next four years.
“If she had just been sitting there going tit-for-tat with him, that would be pointless. But she — it gave her space to tell people, ‘This is what he did, this is why he was fired, this is what we inherited, this is what President Biden and I tried, and this is what I’m going to do going forward,’” Reines said. “And if you don’t give yourself the space to do that, to carve that out, he’s going to pretend that he just came on the scene a month ago and that he has never had a record.”
Reines, who also played Trump in Hillary Clinton’s debate preparations in 2016, argued that that Trump’s messaging is now “all over the board” and described him as a “malfunctioning appliance.”
“He was all over the place but to some extent structured,” Reines said, referring to Trump eight years ago. “Now, he’s all over the board.”
He later added, “I think he’s losing train of thought and he’s just blurting out the next thing in his mind.”
Reines also gave insight that Harris initiating a handshake with Trump was “not a matter of rehearsal.”
“In her mind, that was the right, bigger thing to do,” Reines said
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