Deeply aggrieved
It seems Trump is not in a good mood.
Deeply aggrieved by the proceedings and mindful of how they will stain his legacy, Trump spent the 24 hours before the vote on the phone with top officials and Republican lawmakers, according to multiple people familiar with his calls, expressing outrage at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and looking ahead to what his trial in the Senate will look like.
As he watched conservative pundits on television bolster his views, Trump called for religious intervention.
“Send god to help!”
“This shoild never happen to another President again,” he wrote, the misspelling of “should” hardly masking his outrage. “Say a prayer!”
Ok. “Dear god, please let Trump be impeached and convicted, and then arrested the minute he leaves office.”
Impeachment has consumed much of Trump’s days and nights this month, between dictating an irate letter to Pelosi, phoning his associates to vent into the wee hours and plotting his defense in a Senate trial.
He has been ranting about impeachment in phone calls with Republican members of Congress over the last several days and nights, according to multiple GOP sources.
I hope he’s calling them at 3 a.m. All of them.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement the President would be “working all day” but “could catch some of the proceedings between meetings.”
Ten minutes later, he was decrying “SUCH ATROCIOUS LIES BY THE RADICAL LEFT, DO NOTHING DEMOCRATS” on Twitter, his message written in capital letters.
But he’s totally working all day. Work work workity work.
Last week, Trump and his aides — including speechwriter Stephen Miller — began drafting the scathing letter to Pelosi that was delivered on Tuesday, according to officials familiar with the matter, keeping the plan and text closely held within the West Wing until its public release.
Some White House officials who were not involved in the letter’s preparation said they were surprised when they saw the six-page document, which was indignant in tone and cited the Salem Witch Trials as a precedent to his situation.
Happy HOLIDAYS Donnie.
That has to be the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. Stain his legacy indeed, that’s like wetting water.
Wow! From comedy gold to a basic lack of understanding of what scathing means. Hint: it doesn’t mean childish, vindictive, cowardly, spiteful, dishonest, snivelling, desperate, or running scared.
“Stain his legacy indeed, that’s like wetting water”
It does stain his legacy – if we are talking about his legacy of being a crud and a crook and totally getting away with it without repercussions.
A fair point well made, Pliny.
That is a good point. That is a somewhat consoling point.
Ok, I’m torn between picturing Miller and the rest of the aides tactfully trying to reign in Trump for a week and then more or less throwing up their hands and thinking “well, we tried” … and Miller et al being completely blindsided — “O Dear Mother of God he’s written a letter!!!” — and then dutifully scrambling to concoct a story about how they all worked together drafting it for a week. Both views have their merits.
A legacy of nothing but stain. The biggest, and best stain. A tremendous stain. A stain like no other. Some say the biggest stain ever!
Trump’s “legacy” is a deep, corrosive, cancerous stain that people will take years to try to remove, without ever truly succeeding. Norms, precedents and traditions smashed and burning, new precedents of corruption, boorishness and mendacity ready to be used by future occupants of the White House.
What’s his problem? Nothing is gonna happen to him so why isn’t he just running around doing his thing with that dumb smug grin on his face?
(I know, I know, he’s incapable of letting even the smallest slight go)