Reports of a president unhinged
Reports are that Trump gets crazier every day. That’s 28 more days of upping the crazy while he still has access to the nukes.
[A]mid reports of a president unhinged – one report said: “We cannot stress enough how unnerved Trump officials are” – and while Trump continued to stoke a Republican civil war by attacking Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, a group of GOP representatives visited the White House to plan one final push to reverse the will of the American people.
There were about 12 of them.
Trump continues to make baseless accusations of mass electoral fraud and reportedly to rage against aides he deems insufficiently zealous in his defence. According to the news site Axios, White House counsel Pat Cipollone and chief of staff Mark Meadows are prominent among such hapless targets.
So is McConnell, whom Trump claims to have saved in his re-election fight this year, the president sending a slide to Republicans in Congress which purported to show the restorative effect of a presidential tweet and robocall.
“Sadly, Mitch forgot,” the slide said. “He was the first one off the ship!”
But Trump and his stalwart band of 12 Republicans will prevail! You’ll see!
Trump remains actively engaged in the fundamentally anti-democratic campaign. He is said to have spent an hour poring over the details of the 6 January session with the group from Congress.
Ah so he does know how to pay attention to details!
But only when they concern him personally as opposed to presidentially. When they concern him in his role in the job he is supposed to be doing, he has urgent tv to watch.
The closer the president gets to removal from office, the more volatile he becomes, and the more wild his invective grows. According to Olivia Nuzzi of New York magazine, since election day White House aides have been “outright avoiding the president out of concern he might end up using any nearby staffer as a human stress ball”.
But he’ll always have The Twelve.
This is exactly what Mary Trump predicted both out loud and in her book. Her book is worth a read, btw. It paints a horrifying picture not only of Trump but that entire family. It’s rare to see a group of people so devoid of any kind of empathy, love, or any other positive human emotion. They’re not even happy – their entire existence is the accumulation of wealth and it makes them miserable because they can never be satisfied. Ghastly people.
The congresscritters who have supported Trump’s unrepentant anti-democratic crusade should be named, shamed (not that is possible) and Pelosi should refuse to seat them. They are openly courting sedition.
I’m not sure I actually believe that Trump pored over the details, even in this situation. What probably happened is he issued alternately demands and threats and the 12 venal cowards nodded and sorted through the more arcane parts of the US law, rules, and conventions governing Congress.
And to the latest lapdogs now coming under fire – Cipollone, Meadows, McConnell: boo fucking hoo. You knew what he was and who he was. If you thought that you’d be different, that somehow you would not be dropped like a hot rock the minute you were no longer of use, then you are either deluded or stupid as a stump.
I wonder if Trump will retaliate against Pat Robertson (of all people) saying he is living in an “alternate reality.” From someone who knows about living in an alternate reality, an expert on the subject in fact.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/politics/pat-robertson-trump-2020-election/index.html
Hollywood made a movie once about a very similar siuation, starring Humphrey Bogart. It was The Caine Mutiny.