Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

echoes of his famous "even the haters and losers" tweet, but he's clearly not in top form anymore.

He’s hiding his Diet Coke bottle behind the phone a day after telling everyone to boycott Coca-Cola! https://t.co/K2is5hpl7o pic.twitter.com/idDtVtkBeM

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) April 5, 2021

OMG that plane's headed straight for Mount Rushmore

hehe. also: glasses. plus, is that newspaper hiding something?

The newspaper is hiding 3 McRibs.

Looks like right before the picture was taken Asshole told other Asshole "ok, take a step back. No, one more step. OK, just one more ..." And then at the last minute Miller creeped one step closer again, to stay in the frame.

I was just wondering:

Does Donald Trump, as of April 2021, have any political agenda, other than to protect and perhaps enrich himself?

He was considered, from say 2016-2021, as the leader of a populist far-right / proto-fascist turn in world politics. He enacted, I think, bad and dangerous policies. You would normally expect such a figure to be continually pushing a policy agenda by whatever means.

But is Trump? Or is he merely shoring himself up (what happened to all the claims about prosecutions he would face after leaving office?), or merely trying to make maximum cash -- with no real political agenda beyond that?

His only agenda is promoting himself, preferably enriching himself also in the process. That should be abundantly clear by now.

I
Don’t
Care

Aimless: wouldn't that, then, be good news? As it would mean that he doesn't have any particular interest in promoting far right policies?

(what happened to all the claims about prosecutions he would face after leaving office?)

yeah i‘ve been wondering about that myself

he's promoting the far right policies still to stoke up his followers to stave off repercussions from his presidency, to grift them and also because he's a racist and a fucking terrible human being

_ (what happened to all the claims about prosecutions he would face after leaving office?)_

yeah i‘ve been wondering about that myself

This in and of itself would be enough for headaches but there’s whatever the Fulton County DA in Georgia is considering, while the wider DOJ look into January 6 is a story of increasing focus on various superseding indictments on particular participants. And for all we know there’s other stuff being looked at quietly.

They're all going to pull a Mueller and indict a bunch of b-listers and goons but not the big guy.

It seems like Trump has the GOP tied up in knots right now. This feels like a good thing. They are in the “can’t live with him, can’t live without him” stage. Of course, this could all change at a moment’s notice. Or... he could be the wrench in McConnell’s works for the next several years. I, for one, hope the GOP finally is getting to the point where they regret, and really start paying for, having hitched their wagons to his cult of personality.

There will be no regrets as long as the tax cuts and court packing are in effect.

I hope all the members of the GOP die fiery deaths.

There will be no regrets as long as the tax cuts and court packing are in effect.

New: Former President Trump attacked Mitch McConnell as a "dumb son of a bitch" in his speech at the RNC donor retreat tonight, per an attendee.

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) April 11, 2021

Already trying to thread the needle there

https://www.axios.com/trump-gop-party-asa-hutchinson-54217032-186b-426d-b50b-3635c0a0b205.html

Dud.

https://i.imgur.com/U3IDa8l.png

(at cpac on feb 28)

Welp, there went my breakfast

that's just your old breakfast now

look deeply into his eyes and remember your breakfast

I know King Turd has his diehard fans, but seriously, is there really a significant group of even the GOP that wishes this guy were louder and more visible? It feels like such a relief to only have to deal with his shit by choice. Wanting things back the way things were just a few months ago would be like getting over a bad case of food poisoning but wishing you still had diarrhea.

🐦[New: Former President Trump attacked Mitch McConnell as a "dumb son of a bitch" in his speech at the RNC donor retreat tonight, per an attendee.
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) April 11, 2021🕸]🐦

Trump only has ever cared about himself. He wants the attention, he wants it to all be about him. When he was president, he of course helped the GOP reach some of their goals, but only in so far as it benefitted him to do so. But now what can he do for the GOP? Only make noise, distract, get involved where he’s not wanted, and actively backstab GOP leadership as they attempt to move on. But he’s losing his grip on at least a portion of his base, which means he’s losing his power over GOP leadership. He’s back to being all talk now, and frustrated over not being able to use his preferred channels and reach the same scale of audience. I can only see him continuing to lash out and attack any and all targets even if it won’t benefit himself beyond just saving a little face over being unwanted, a loser and a pariah.

Aimless: wouldn't that, then, be good news?

I take it as better than most of the alternatives. The critical thing so far has been the removal of his Twitter account. He has no method of amplifying his momentary thoughts and he's too lazy to find and learn a more difficult tool. How he rose to the presidency in face of his universal incompetence is an insoluble mystery.

I'm waiting for him to do an arena tour. I liked the recent David Roth tweet, too, where he predicted that a commercial starring Trump seems inevitable, and inevitably (even if very much in character) super tacky.

his being banned from twitter a few months ago instead of a decade ago does help explain at least some of his success

The internet's greatest researcher, Ashley Feinberg, has mapped out what the former guy's days look like when CPAC isn't on:

https://www.trashberg.com/p/what-exactly-is-trump-doing-at-mar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAkZT_4vL_Y

if you don’t click we’ll blow up a hospital https://t.co/URDQGfsuPL

— the women of kilgore trout’s office (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 26, 2021

Don't not click "yes" if you think we should kill this puppy.

Click "no" if you don't want us to not kill this puppy.

Are we clear?

My parents' neighbors STILL have their Trump/Pence sign up. But they used black electrical tape to block out Pence. Feels like they're not quite ready to abandon Trump just yet.

The one time leader of the free world who now lives alone in a hotel sharing buffets, common areas, and staff with strangers, yearns for attention and relevance so badly, he now stands on a patio step every night ranting to tens of people about a 6 month old election that he lost pic.twitter.com/xIuZ7jAkZD

— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) April 30, 2021

...and then he brought down the house with a killer rendition of "Kokomo".

Seeing all the stuff about the 10th anniversary of killing Bin Laden, and then remembering when in '19 Two-Scoops & Co. managed to fuck up their victory lap after nailing the head ISIL guy.

Hard not to think about the damage done with that fake vaccine plot when tracking him down.

I'll randomly remember some crazy/idiotic thing about Trump. Like yesterday I thought about the whole John Barron thing. Hilarious! One of about 1000 things that on their own should've made him an utter laughingstock to 100% of people.

RTF--random Trump flashbacks--will probably be officially classified as a psychological disorder one day.

remember, while the world was panicking at the outset of a global pandemic, when he suggested during a press conference that we should look into getting light or bleach inside our bodies to kill viruses?
good times.

dud

Covfefe All the way
A cove who is like double iron, yeah hardman like

does he have anything other than insults on his new FromTheDeskOf thing? Very presidential and dignified.

It’s funny that it took over four months for his crack team of programmers to build this.

They have six more months to perfect it.

before we're all dead?