The internet swiftly pointed out that the "changed man" hadn't changed much at all, resorting to his regular rants and attacks on the cases against him.
So much for unity. Fank Marin called J6 a fraud on the social media site X. Geoff Ninecow agreed that "nothing has changed.
"Pretending he is not bad will not make him good," commented lawyer George Conway on Monday, following the update.
Pretending he isn't depraved will not make him better. Pretending he isn't harmful won't keep him safe. Pretending that he is not disturbed will not make him sound.
National security specialist Marcy Wheeler cited an Axios piece by Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, in which Tucker Carlson stated that such an attack "changes a man." She nicknamed them "rubes."
An utterly unchanged Trump embarrasses his perpetually hapless supporters Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen again," said lawyer and commentator Luppe B. Luppen on X.
"Again, for Trump, 'Unifying America' is about him, not us! "Nothing has changed," stated Michael Steele, the former Republican Party chairman.
The official account of the hacker organization Anonymous wondered, "What exactly has changed? Trump is STILL an insurrectionist, STILL had ties with Epstein, the rapey pedophile,
STILL was convicted of sexual misbehavior, STILL was convicted of 34 felonies, and STILL has six bankruptcies on his record. "Only idiots will vote for him."