Making him look small and irrelevant
On the one hand Trump is more absurd than ever, on the other hand he’s more dangerous than ever.
Donald J. Trump, the former president of the United States, commutes to New York City from his New Jersey golf club to work out of his office in Trump Tower at least once a week, slipping in and out of Manhattan without attracting much attention.
The place isn’t as he left it. Many of his longtime employees are gone. So are most of the family members who once worked there with him and some of the fixtures of the place, like his former lawyer Michael D. Cohen, who have since turned on him. Mr. Trump works there, mostly alone, with two assistants and a few body men.
What kind of “work” does he do there? Composing “statements” like the one saying Mark Zuckerberg requested not to be invited to dinner?
Still blocked from Twitter and Facebook, he has struggled to find a way to influence news coverage since leaving office and promote the fabrication that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Giving a slurred speech while wearing questionable trousers is part of His Struggle.
He has pressed conservative commentators and writers to echo his claims that the election was rigged. His focus has intensified in recent weeks, coinciding with the empaneling of a special grand jury by Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, into his businesses.
A grand jury does tend to concentrate the mind, to borrow Samuel Johnson’s phrase.
Last week, he shut down his blog after hearing from friends that the site was getting little traffic and making him look small and irrelevant, according to a person familiar with his thinking.
He is small and irrelevant. Dangerous, but still small and irrelevant.
He has been so eager for an audience that he is even billed as a speaker who will appear live, via Jumbotron, at a rally in New Richmond, Wis., where the other headliners are Diamond and Silk, the MAGA movement social media stars, and Dinesh D’Souza, who received a presidential pardon from Mr. Trump for a felony conviction of making illegal campaign contributions.
Celebrity Jumbotron!
“If you’re a one-term president, you usually go quietly into the night,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian. “He sees himself as leading the revolution, and he’s doing it from the back of a golf cart.”
The golf cart revolution will be televised.
Ophelia, how can he be both dangerous and irrelevant? Small, yes (=petty and without substance).
Surely it’s not that difficult. Ultimately irrelevant; irrelevant in the larger scheme of things; irrelevant in the senses that matter; and so on and so on. It’s been the paradox about him all along – his utter emptiness and triviality, plus his power to destroy literally everything.
Haha “questionable trousers”? What did I miss?
(Surprising number of results on google, to be fair.)
Nothing much, actually – there was a clip from a video that looked as if his trousers were either on backwards or the elastic-waist kind, but Snopes says it was a trick of the light and other clips show a zipper so the claim is rated false.