An insatiable quest for the spotlight
How’s Trump’s forced retirement going? Oh you know – full of revenge and plots and shouting.
Trump is moving to handpick members of the House GOP leadership team — relentlessly attacking Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 House Republican, and endorsing Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York to replace her.
He is plotting to take down Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach him for inciting the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, while continuing to stoke the false claims of a stolen election that has become a dangerous rallying cry for the party.
And he is playing host to a burbling stream of Republican well-wishers — including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif). and Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) — who travel to his private Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida to pay their respects, seek his support and post a photo of their ring-kissing on social media.
All this for a guy with no talent, no charm, no decency, no mercy, no brains, no heart, no kindness, no generosity, no wit, no talent – it’s an endless list of nones.
He rails that President Biden is “a disaster” and argues that “Joe isn’t in charge, everybody knows it’s Kamala” — a preview of his likely message portraying Biden as an unwitting stooge of Vice President Harris, this person said.
I know this one – Biden is “pussy-whipped,” am I right? Trump is exactly the kind of guy who thinks in those terms.
Trump’s reappearance is fueled by an ego-driven desire to remain at the center of national attention, said former advisers and allies who are in touch with Trump.
But of course he’s not the center of national attention now. I hope it’s eating him up. I hope he curls up on the floor every night and screams.
The defeated ex-president is propelled primarily by a thirst for retribution, an insatiable quest for the spotlight and a desire to establish and maintain total dominance and control over the Republican base, said several former senior White House advisers.
So why were they senior advisers? Why did they work for a horrific human being like that?
Advisers and critics alike note his statements do not receive the attention they once did — and he is severely limited after being banned by Twitter and Facebook. Some previous donors are no longer interested in giving, while allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) argue that polling shows Trump is less relevant by the week.
What I’m saying. He’s a talentless heap of lard, and without the office to shine him up, that’s all he looks like.
Despite being banned from major social media platforms after his role in inciting the Jan. 6 attack, he now regularly puts out statements from the “45th President of the United States of America” through his political action committee. Earlier this week, he also launched a bare-bones website, “From the desk of Donald J. Trump,” that was widely mocked by critics as underwhelming and unimpressive. He dictates the statements to aides, who then print them out for him to edit with a Sharpie before they are officially released.
Edit with a Sharpie bwahahahahahaha
Privately, however, many Republican officials — including some Trump allies — are growing frustrated, worried that the former president is wasting his time on petty rivalries and grievances. They say they wish he was working to protect policies from his term and affirmatively helping Republicans in 2022. “All the 2022 stuff is, ‘Well, what’s in it for me?’” said one former senior White House official, summarizing Trump’s thinking.
And this surprises them? Really?
I’ve got two words for Donnie Dipshit — HAS BEEN.
Maybe they finally discovered and unticked that box that automatically pulled monthly “contributions” from their accounts.
When did he not do this? Seems to be his specialty.
He had policies? I suppose if you want to dignify being a lying, thin-skinned, vindictive, dictator fellating, insurrection-fomenting asshole with the concept of having had “policies,” go right ahead.
It’s not so much “thinking” as a primal urge arising from his limbic system. He will burn it all down-party, country, planet- if it suits his narrow, shallow, immediate, ill-conceived ends. And if he goes down, he will not go down quietly, or alone, unless he strokes out in his sleep.
I have often imagined him rotting on a Florida beach somewhere like a washed up jellyfish. Either that or keeled over in a sand trap with his 9 iron, to the delight of the local carrion crows. It could happen to the best of us, so why not the worst? :P
The absence of Trump is one reason to be cheerful. He was horribly present like a cloud of smog.
Still, with the courts packed, relentless gerrymandering and vote-suppression, plus a nationwide horde of armed goons at his command; it won’t be until the end of next year that we can even begin to sigh with relief.
Not even then. Unless the GOP changes in dramatic ways, we are going to have another referendum for or against American democracy every four years for the rest of our lives, and heavily rigged in favor of the latter.
…if we’re lucky.