Sir we’re hanging up now
Trump is SULking, na na na na nah.
Used to was, we couldn’t get away from him.
The outgoing US president held endless campaign rallies, verbally sparred with reporters on the way to his helicopter and spent so long on the phone to Fox News shows that even pliable hosts had to gently but firmly hang up.
He’s that guy. He’s that guy who never shuts up, that guy who has no interest in anyone else, that guy who thinks his every word is enthralling.
But now he’s hiding.
For critics, it is evidence of a monumental sulk as Trump contemplates his imminent loss of power and exit from the White House. In their view, it is also a staggering abrogation of responsibility as the coronavirus pandemic surges to new highs, infecting more than 158,000 Americans – and killing in excess of 1,100 – every day.
Yes, but he does less harm by doing nothing than by doing anything. When he’s busy he just breaks things.
Trump reportedly spends mornings in the White House residence bingeing on television. Then he goes down to the Oval Office in the afternoon, moving between it and an adjoining dining room which has a big TV. He broods there until night, conferring with lawyers in increasingly desperate efforts to overturn the election even as Biden nears a record 80m votes….
For many observers, Trump’s retreat is the primal instinct of a sore loser. Biographers have told how he was raised by his father to be a “killer” and regard losing as a sign of unforgivable weakness. The family attended a church whose pastor, Norman Vincent Peale, wrote the bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking with advice to “stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding”.
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Michael Steele, a senior adviser to the anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project and former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said: “It’s Trump being a little petulant boy who didn’t get his way and is not getting his way, so he doesn’t want to be out in public and he doesn’t want to play any more. He wants to take his toys and go hide somewhere or create mischief some other way.”
For this relief much thanks.
He’s still intent on breaking things, and his lackeys are reportedly pushing their agenda on what to break.
Obviously such an order will be met with legal challenges and be overturned but at least the racist prez and his racist aides can tell his racist support that he did at least sign the racist order and it was those meddling Dems. that blocked it (even though it would be the mostly-Rep. SCOTUS that does the actual blocking).
(sorry about the source but, well, y’know. And despite it being the Mail their report on this at least doesn’t favour the racism. Doesn’t condemn it, either, but I suppose neutral is an improvement for them)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8972055/amp/President-Trump-sign-executive-order-ending-birthright-citizenship.html?ico=amp_articleRelated
AoS, Trump has always seemed to think he could change the Constitution just by saying so. He could not pass seventh grade civics with what he knows. Of course, to be honest, I know only a handful of people who could. I wonder if other countries have a citizen base that is so uninformed on how their country works…or is supposed to work, anyway?