Deflated but still self-obsessed
Trump is soothing his poor bruised ego with the thick poultice of cash he’s fooled a lot of people into giving him.
Deflated by a loss he has yet to acknowledge, Mr. Trump has cushioned the blow by coaxing huge sums of money from his loyal supporters — often under dubious pretenses — raising roughly $250 million since Election Day along with the national party.
Not bad as a consolation prize.
His astonishing talent for raising money by being a flaming asshole means he is still the boss of the Republicans.
Mr. Trump has long acted with few inhibitions when it comes to spending other people’s money, and he has spent millions of campaign dollars on his own family businesses in the last five years. But new records show an even more intricate intermingling of Mr. Trump’s political and familial interests than was previously known.
Normally that kind of thing is against the law, but when Trump does it, oh well trumps will be trumps hahaha pass the ice cream.
Those who have spoken with Mr. Trump say he appears shrunken, and over his job; this detachment is reflected in a Twitter feed that remains stubbornly more focused on unfounded allegations of fraud than on the death toll from the raging pandemic.
That is, stubbornly more focused on himself than on 350 million people who are not that self.
Whatever he decides to do next we can be confident he will keep himself front and center.
“There’s no bully pulpit as large as the presidency, but nevertheless, President Trump is likely to play a significant role in the future of the Republican Party,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “It’s very difficult to imagine him following the same pattern as George W. Bush, Barack Obama and other presidents have followed in keeping their mouths shut and letting the new president try to govern.”
Well duh; where’s the fun in that?
Few inhibitions? No inhibitions?
That’s typical the New York Times mealy-mouthed way of calling the man a horrible bastard.
$250 million might be just the tip of the iceberg.
It seems that the whiter-than-white VP isn’t averse to wetting his beak, too.
Neat symmetry, making a Trump president and a Pence VP of the scam companies.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/kushner-trump-family-shell-company-b1776359.html
“His astonishing talent for raising money by being a flaming asshole means he is still the boss of the Republicans”
Although there has to be some concern among the GOP about him sucking up all that cash for himself and his family. None of this money he’s raising right now, ostensibly for the Georgia elections, is actually going to support those campaigns, and you have to think that’s hurting the fundraising efforts of the actual candidates and their affiliated PACs.
If the GOP ever turns on Trump, we know by now it won’t be over any actual moral principle. It’ll be for fucking with the money. You never fuck with the money. (And relatedly, if the Trump family really starts following through on threats to challenge current GOP senators… again, self-interest.)