This is one of those that’s surprising, purely because he’s Donald Trump. We all know he’s slowing down, physically and mentally. He has an erratic sleep schedule, and he never sleeps long enough. That’s hard on a person, so it’s reflected in his lack of mental acuity. That’s not, by any means, the only cause of his erratic behavior, but it is part of it. What has he lost? Does he know it? And what is he going to do next? My compliments to Raw Story:
President Donald Trump has lost one of the very few things he became famous for, New York Magazine’s Sarah Jones argued in an analysis published on Friday. Specifically, she argued, he’s lost his ability to put on a show. This became obvious with the long string of disasters that befell his Great American State Fair, Jones wrote.
Yep, that was a sad excuse of an event that was supposed to be for our nation’s birthday and got turned into a goddam Trump rally. But he can’t put on a show anymore. Having little knowledge of his rallies means that knowledge is limited to pictures. But it looked like it was really crazy at those things, compared to times when an actor or model steps out for a bit. Now … he’s just air.
“A mock-up of Trump’s triumphal arch oozed a puslike substance, and a robot dog danced alone in the mud. Nearby, the reflecting pool sat green and full of algae, lethal to ducklings and irresistible to protesters, who demonstrated next to it in costume.” Meanwhile, Trump’s D.C. prosecutor Jeanine Pirro got an indictment against an Olympian for “touching a piece of the pool’s disintegrating bottom liner,” while “two days before the storm, a portion of the stage broke off and nearly struck dancers who were in the middle of a rehearsal.”
None of this would have been seen at a Trump celebration of old, argued Jones, which, despite their chaos, were bombastic and grandiose. “Trump’s tastes have always been entertaining, if garish. Lately, though, the seams are fraying,” she wrote — and the State Fair disaster is “almost the least of it.” The problem, she said, is that “if Trump can’t throw a good party or make everything golden, what’s left? Loyalists have leaned on MAGA for glitz and a little excitement. Without spectacle, the future of the movement is in jeopardy.”
Oh, my broken heart isn’t. It will be interesting to see what happens with my family members, because MAGA is disintegrating as we speak, every day. Trump doesn’t have the charisma or the long-distance charisma that he used to. He has to work harder to capture his fans when he goes out. It’s obvious he’s aging. He just doesn’t have it anymore. I didn’t listen, but I watched some of the speech. He’s really fading, and it’s kind of sad. We can pity him yet still celebrate his losses. That sounds pretty good.
Back in 2015-16, wrote Jones, “Trump made the mob laugh and channeled its libidinal hatred,” and his rallies almost had a similar quality to megachurches. He captured the same energy as the far-right Tea Party rallies in the early 2010s, as well as the segregationist rallies of George Wallace. That isn’t the case anymore, she argued — he has their politics, but not their spirit. Ultimately, Jones said, “There won’t be a mass epiphany within MAGA” — but there is a slow burn as many of them lose the magic and feel “the sense of being had.” The president “understands his vulnerability, on some level, which is why he is obsessed with the size of his crowds,” she concluded — because “In the absence of spectacle, corruption and cruelty are more difficult to ignore.”
WHAM. His corruption is coming out because he isn’t “coming out” like he used to over the past decade. He does rallies here and there, but it’s obvious he’s more physically fragile and that the spark he had has flickered out. He can’t pack a house at a rally. We remember his ridiculous crowd-size obsession. It’s still there – it just doesn’t come out as much, because he doesn’t come out as much. The Not Great American State Fair was a HUGE flop. When he stole the money from the state(s), they couldn’t do *anything* because they had no money. That included the celebrations they wanted to have, let alone trying to come to the Not Great Fair to do something representing the state. Yea. The corruption and cruelty are on full display here. His brain is melting, so his mind is having difficulty doing things. We’ve seen examples of that, too. When can we get him out of “ruling” our country and get America and our allies, if we have any left, back to what we used to be? It’s going to be a rough road, but we can get things done. I hope.
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