I regularly check in at the website Mediate to see what’s going on, and this morning it had a couple of stories about bombshell statements Trump made in his Time magazine interview. But, upon further inspection, these are less bombshells than classic instances of Trump saying all things at once in a few paragraphs.

One supposed shocker is Trump expressing openness to banning vaccines upon RFK Jr.’s recommendation, although, if you read the relevant passage in the transcript, by the end Trump has only said that there will be “serious” studies of vaccines and, if any are established to be harmful, they will be prohibited.

The item on Trump giving an answer on trans bathroom policy at odds with his trans ads in the campaign has more to it, since Trump wouldn’t simply say that biological males shouldn’t be permitted to enter women’s rooms. Here, too, though, all he’s said by the end is that there are bigger issues to focus on and everyone should be treated fairly, without committing himself to anything in particular.

This kind of fogginess can be frustrating, but it became clear long ago that it’s a political asset to Trump — his imprecision is way of deflecting and being all things to all people on questions where it suits him.