Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Bannon seems to age 5 years with each new photo I see of him, so I beg of you please paparazzi - keep photographing him.

Nice kicker at the end of that story.

"Bannon realized that Trump was repeating the same stories over and over again... and Bannon wanted to do something about it," Rosen explained, adding that Bannon believed he could take over the right-wing movement from Trump.

Occasionally I will think 'lol, remember the time everyone laughed at Bannon because he wore two shirts like an idiot' and then I'll see a picture of Bannon and remember 'oh no, wearing two shirts like an idiot is what he does literally all the time'.

Again, no one who didn't live through this era will believe half of the recounted details about this era.

“He’s said that not being on social media, and not being subject to the hateful echo chamber that social media too frequently becomes, has actually been good,” Miller told the outlet.

I dont believe theres even a ghost of a chance that he would say something like that. Imho the reason for:

it’s been “the first time in years that I saw the president truly relaxed,” Miller told the paper

is that Trump hated being president so. fucking. much.

Trump hated being president so. fucking. much.

Yet he didn't resign from the job, and when he lost the election he spent months desperately trying to hold onto the job, capping it all by committing serious crimes in plain view, all so he wouldn't be forced to leave the job he hated. so. fucking. much.

Both can be true. He hated it but he needed it because it was his shield from prosecution and the taxman and dealing with his debt, and it was the best grift he'd ever lucked into.

WmC otmfm

And he loved doing the rallies (as long as they were full.)

Bannon seems to age 5 years with each new photo I see of him, so I beg of you please paparazzi - keep photographing him.

Nice kicker at the end of that story.
"Bannon realized that Trump was repeating the same stories over and over again... and Bannon wanted to do something about it," Rosen explained, adding that Bannon believed he could take over the right-wing movement from Trump.

sorry, I read these posts as being about Ba*rr*on. not sure if I'm relieved or disappointed now.

Yet he didn't resign from the job, and when he lost the election he spent months desperately trying to hold onto the job, capping it all by committing serious crimes in plain view, all so he wouldn't be forced to leave the job he hated. so. fucking. much.

none of that is because he liked "the job", in fact he pretty much avoided working whenever possible

like the power and fame, hate the job

In sum, Donald Trump is a land of many contrasts.

Apparently they block PornHub in the WH and Trump was none too pleased with that

don’t forget that he toyed with the idea of not even moving into the WH in the first place, he was so grossed out by it.

the stuff he liked about the gig (the title, rallies, being treated like a kingmaker, getting free money from doing crimes) he still has access to postpresidency. The stuff he clearly loathed about it (being in away from his luxury properties, having to occasionally see ppl he didn’t know and listen to stuff he didn’t care about) he doesn’t have to deal with anymore. I’ve got no doubt he’s overjoyed that he never has to set foot in the WH for at least the next 4 years.

Both can be true. He hated it but he needed it because it was his shield from prosecution and the taxman and dealing with his debt, and it was the best grift he'd ever lucked into.

The shield from prosecution/taxman and grift are so far down the list of reasons he disputed the election (#s 98-100). IIRC the first 97 reasons are "to shield my massively fragile ego".

Yeah I don’t believe he has any serious thought that he is at risk of prosecution or jail time, I don’t think that factors into his thinking at all

After all the shit he put us through, we deserve to read this statement. A “Detox”-level lost masterpiece. pic.twitter.com/yaYglz6pwv

— Ian Cohen (@en_cohen) February 16, 2021

Yeah, I'm not sure Trump should really be ridiculing anyone else's appearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnizDJxzlv0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnizDJxzlv0

(sorry, thought it would work)

- Donald Trump

finally removing bookmark from this thread after 4 years

Fitting, because Trump has never read a book.

And the walls came a-tumblin' down

LOOK: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City is demolished. The hotel has been closed since 2014 pic.twitter.com/qniUzxp8Nk

— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) February 17, 2021

https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/02/19/trump-hotel-employees-tell-all-what-it-was-really-like-serving-right-wing-elite

lotta pull quotes there

It contains the sentence: “The splatter just missed the President’s son.”

i came to post that link, glad to see Stan got to it already.

rich ppl's need to be fawned over by service industry workers is so pathetic and tacky.

also pathetic and tacky: https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/01/19/yep-donald-trump-only-visited-one-dc-restaurant-in-four-years/

Pouring Diet Coke like vintage champagne...

"A tray of junk food needed to be available for every Trump visit: Lay’s potato chips (specifically, sour cream and onion), Milky Way, Snickers, Nature Valley Granola Bars, Tic Tacs, gummy bears, Chips Ahoy, Oreos, Nutter Butters, Tootsie Rolls, chocolate-covered raisins, and Pop-Secret."

fuckin pathetic tasteless loser asshole

i'm still not over it... to know a man could have all the wealth and power in the world, and choose to live this way... to go so far beyond previously known limits of vacuous tastelessness... it must be parody, yet it is indisputable fact and my mind cannot accept it...

Tbh was having similar thoughts.

It truly is like a stupid child's fantasy of what being rich must be like, tbh. The candy, the soda poured out like champagne, extra desserts...

yes. my thoughts turn to the simulation hypothesis. this might be the thing that finally convinces me.

the whole thing's a Buñuel film, i'm convinced

It's Home Alone except Kevin is stuck in his home, alone, for 60 years and essentially remains a feral eight-year-old the whole time.

May be a good time to clear out for Cancun.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/20/politics/trump-cpac-republican-party/index.html

(we don't have nor necessarily yet need a DJTJ thread, so this'll go here)

This looks and sounds like an extremist video posted from a bunker of undisclosed location pic.twitter.com/LNWmiUN96I

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 21, 2021

I like how all the guns are pointed at his head.

Y'all probably saw already, but Two Scoops The Younger got roasted on Twitter earlier this week for blaming the Texas Ice Disaster on the incompetent leadership of our DEMOCRAT governor.

Good news for the guy here who wanted the tax returns.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/politics/supreme-court-trump-taxes-vance/index.html

Hope those tax returns get released before this clown of a crook runs for president.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/27/donald-trump-cpac-speech-2021

Wow it's gonna be really kewl and unexpected when he starts talking about how the election was stolen from him.

Morris Day did it better pic.twitter.com/GNfSUSp9gB

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 1, 2021

More and more, I don't subscribe to the idea that the 2024 nomination is his if he wants it. Three points:

1) (I may have said this on another thread) Politicians are hyper-driven by ambition. The idea that all these people dying to run will just step aside down the road doesn't comport with human nature, whether or not he decides to himself.

2) Neither party has given the nomination to a previous general-election loser since Nixon in '68, and that was kind of a perfect storm of events (much like Trump in '16 was). They just don't do it anymore--you get your chance and that's it, you win or you're gone.

3) As Cuomo's present meltdown attests to yet again--the Cuomo who less than a year ago was the VP-in-waiting if he wanted it (with even murmurs of a emergency nomination)--the cliché that "(x amount of time) is a lifetime in politics" is a cliché for a reason. You could list dozens and dozens of examples from recent history. (Reading about the flameout of John Connally in Reaganland right now.)

So I think that, while Trump will be meddlesome and influential in whoever is the nominee, and that nominee could be just as bad and maybe even worse (hard to imagine, but looking at Greene and Hawley, who knows), I don't think it'll be Trump, even if he does run.

If MTG becomes the GOP nominee for president in my lifetime, that will mark the official end of my lifetime.

Why kill yourself just because other people want to kill you? Kind of seems like cutting off your life to spite your life.

Something more like

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AcceptableBothImago-max-1mb.gif

clemenza makes several cogent and valid points, but regarding...

Politicians are hyper-driven by ambition. The idea that all these people dying to run will just step aside down the road doesn't comport with human nature, whether or not he decides to himself.

It was only a short time ago, in 2015, when HRC managed to convince large numbers of her potential rivals that it would be futile to challenge her bid for the nomination, so all of them but Bernie decide to sit 2016 out.

true but there's a difference between HRC, an incredibly intelligent person who was First Lady, a US Senator, and then Secretary of State, and Trump, who has zero experience and understands basically nothing. Dems still believe that experience & tenure matter and that's why they put up candidates like Hillary and Biden - Republicans believe in nothing but punishing people they don't like, so any candidate who is thoroughly hated by the left has a shot

Trump is still basking in the glow of his failed presidency - his fans are by and large not big GOP supporters, they'll follow him anywhere but don't really care about party machinations.

But I wouldn't put it past him - an early announcement of his intention to run again. It's a way to raise money and organize massive super spreader events, to drop coy one liners, to attack his perceived enemies... his greatest joys in life.