Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

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MADISON, Wis. — Bipartisan ethics regulators in Wisconsin have recommended felony charges against one of Donald Trump’s fundraising arms and other Republicans in a scheme that they say was meant to circumvent campaign finance laws to take out a powerful GOP lawmaker who has turned against Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/23/wisconsin-ethics-trump-fundraising-charges/

Seeing Robin Vos get it from all sides there is kinda satisfying.

Meantime, Engoron has officially filed the fraud judgment so Trump has 30 days from now to either put up the cash or a bond for it or else the NYAG office can start merrily collecting, regardless of when Trump files his appeal. 31 days from now is when Trump's criminal trial begins. Timing!

love it

Fox cuts coverage of Trump’s rally: Even though he’s entitled to his opinion, he’s not entitled to his own set of facts. The market has indeed been going up but it has nothing to do with Trump. There was also no evidence of a rigged election pic.twitter.com/cwj8YIc1Xo

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 23, 2024

and so the trump worm continues a wrigglin' inside the mill in which turn them wheels of justice. the lore says they grind exceeding small--yet still they have never quite reached him. wriggle wriggle worm.

Love these disclaimers, though

Newsmax adds a disclaimer at the end of Trump’s rally: The president mentioned in his speech, the 2020 elections. Newsmax as a network believes the results were legal and final. pic.twitter.com/SFD2ChXWcQ

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 23, 2024

lol

“Rigged election? We here at Newsmax don’t throw that phrase around, that would be irresponsible and anti-civic, not us no sir”

There is a phrase used in rhetoric to mention something by saying you will not mention it. Apophasis? Paralipsis?

if I posted that praeteritio is also a term you could use for this, it would just be showing off so I won't

Who are we to speak of such things?

I’m getting my own show on newsmax. Tune in monday at 8pm

use the “don’t sue me” disclaimer is my non-legal advice. i use a “i’m so uncollectable” codicil, too.

Thiiiis fuuuuuucking guuuuuuy

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former President Trump sought to appeal to Black voters on Friday night in South Carolina by repeatedly citing the 91 felony charges he faces and comparing them to unfair treatment from the criminal justice system toward minorities in America.

“A lot of people said that’s why the Black people liked me, because they had been hurt so badly and discriminated against. And they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against … Maybe there’s something to it,” he said, right after talking about the charges.

He also cited his mug shot in Georgia — taken last summer after he was charged for trying to overturn the state’s election results — as a reason that Black voters would gravitate toward him in November. Trump said he now saw Black Americans wearing mug shots on their T-shirts.

“When I did the mug shot in Atlanta, that mug shot is number one,” Trump said. He added that the Black population “embraced it more than anyone else.”

He also said: “I’m being indicted for you, the Black population.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/24/trump-black-voters-indicted-mug-shot/

stay woke donnie

Orangebone

As if there’s some compendium of “best selling mug shots” broken down by demographics.

"Maybe there's something to it."

"I just made it up on the spot, but - hey - anything's possible."

https://bsky.app/profile/kleinman.bsky.social/post/3km2dthtdyk23

One of the replies shows Spike Lee holding up a pair of 'gold' shoes superficially similar to Trump's, but when you compare the two Trump's pair looks like embarrassingly cheap crap knocked off by the low bidder and designed by somebody's alcoholic brother-in-law, while Spike's look both stylish and wearable, like something a person who was really into shoes might covet.

“For hard-working Americans, Nov. 5 will be our new Liberation Day,” Trump said in an address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “But for the liars, and cheaters, and fraudsters, and censors and imposters who have commandeered our government, it will be their Judgment Day.”

sounds fair.

“These are the stakes of this election: Our country is being destroyed and the only thing standing between you and its obliteration is me,” he declared, casting Biden’s leadership as “an express train barreling toward servitude and to ruin.”

”A vote for Trump is your ticket back to freedom, it’s your passport out of tyranny and it’s your only escape from Joe Biden and his gang’s fast track to hell. And in many ways, we’re living in hell right now,” he said, adding that: “the unprecedented success of the United States of America will be my ultimate and absolute revenge.”

He's high on his own supply.

...and said supply is just gas station dick pills.

Next band name, thanks C.

the unprecedented success of the United States of America is on my ultimate and absolute revenge vision board too!

I think what'll be interesting is that for so many older people, his election was totally reality-breaking, but for kids growing up under him, that's just what a President IS. He's the baseline of their understanding.

— Brendan Hill (@playwrightrodeo) February 24, 2024

The next celebrity Republican President probably won't be that Trumpish though, in terms of the specific traits that make him so anamolous.

Not that I have a clue who that would be.

probably Donald Trump

Just putting his fetid corpse up every four years does seem more likely now sure

This MF will say anything - next thing you know he’ll be selling his own version of Wonka’s chocolate factory on the stump with no irony

Oompa loompa doompa dee dump

I liked the way Bakari Sellers framed the election last night: Biden vs. Trump vs. the couch.

Only just caught up with the data set on last week’s president rankings and realized that, even among conservative/GOP-affiliated scholars, Trump ranks 43rd of 45, perhaps underlining how much the divide really is between “the elite” and everyone else

What Trump voters like most about him are features that barely show up on the radar of "presidential scholars" or else rate as negatives.

I think just “scholars” of any type about covers it

there may be authoritarian xenophobic nationalist presidents in the future. (i hope there aren't). but there will never be the likes of this guy again. there isn't even anyone else in popular culture who is similar to him, like someone who is a deliberate parody of themself but still takes themselves seriously. maybe vince mcmahon or someone like that.

he's like a mix between vince mcmahon, joan rivers, tony soprano, and mussolini. the latter element -- the lust for power -- is the most incongruous with the rest of how he is lol.

How?

because he is basically a right wing talking head type of guy with a very new york sassy insult comic thing. but then he really does want to be a dictator. some people had the idea during the 2016 election that he just wanted to be president to serve his vanity, as a ceremonial role, but that turned out to not be true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

i know he isn't an architect of project 2025, but it represents an attempt to translate the sort of things he tried to do into a systematic agenda.

a lot of people didn't think that HE thought that he would win. that he was just doing it for his brand and publicity. i can believe that. he certainly wasn't prepared in any way when he got in there.

i was surprised he didn't pivot to a more moderate and mainstream style once he was elected. i think our sycophantic media class would have been relieved and embraced him if he did that, but instead he kept the lunatics around (bannon and flynn) and did things like the muslim ban. he also gave a speech at the fbi where he insulted them his first day i think.

I don’t think other people trying to bend Trump’s unacceptability into an acceptable narrative is an indicator that the avaricious yearning for power that has been the hallmark of his pursuit of celebrity for as long as I can remember knowing about him. One of the reasons his campaign was initially funny was because it was so obvious from both The Apprentice and also his rhetoric that he viewed the Presidency as a venue for dictatorship, and it stopped being funny when he started winning primaries and his obvious disqualifications didn’t disqualify him.

DJP otm

I missed out an “is surprising/out of character” because I was typing on my phone but I think the gist of what I meant comes across