“Another Saturday Night, And TRUMP’S Got Nobody…”

If you’re old enough you remember a classic Sam Cooke hit titled Another Saturday Night that came out in 1963. It stayed popular on radio stations for a very long time. Even in high school I recall KXOK, a big pop station in St. Louis cueing it up! Cat Stevens released his own version in 1974 that did well on the charts. The opening lyrics got me to thinking:

Another Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody. I got some money cause I just got paid. Now how I wish I had someone to talk to; I’m in an awful way.

It doesn’t take much creativity to adapt those lyrics to Trump and how he’s feeling these days, especially on a Saturday night. Even if he’s tried mingling in the dining or ballroom at Mar A Lago. Sometimes even in a crowd of thousands one can feel completely along. For example standing at a free throw line with only a second or two left on the clock and the game in the balance. Or, since it’s World Series time imagine it being game 7 (the deciding game) and standing in the batter’s box with your team down by several runs and you are the final “out”/batter the pitcher needs to overcome for his team to win.

Think about how things have been going for Trump lately, including and especially in this past week. Not to mention the fresh hell he’s facing next week when his kids will have to take the stand in NY and either tell the truth on him or risk jail for perjury! It’s been a running joke for years now that one meaning of “MAGA” is (Trump) “Making Attorneys Get Attorneys.” Down in Georgia Trump has had three, count em THREE of his lawyers that helped him attempt his attempted coup plead guilty and agree to cooperate against him. You can bet that those individuals are going to be having chats with Jack Smith and his team up in DC as their plea deals require cooperation in all ongoing cases.

Some think Rudy Giuliani is next but I’m of the mind prosecutors don’t want to cut a deal with him! They have all kinds of evidence from him without having to do so and so why bother? Let him fry is, I think how they ar feeling about him. But the point is that Trump knows Rudy is begging for his own deal. John Eastman’s disbarment trial out in CA is almost done and he’s going to lose his license, and wind up cooperating against Trump if HE wants to stay out of jail. I should note other lawyers walked away, not wanting to get caught up in their own legal problems. Those who remain might well wind up spending a hefty part of their retainers (at least semi-competent lawyers still working for Trump seemed to have gotten wise to his ways and demanded an upfront retainer) keeping their law licenses or at least avoiding sanctions. If not worse. One has to wonder if some of the current crop will face a choice between doing what Trump orders them to do (and losing their license or even freedom in the process) or walking away.

So Trump can’t (probably) find even lawyers he’s paying big bucks to to hang with him on a Saturday night.

What about Melania? Don’t make me laugh. From where I sit it’s a given that the latest renegotiated prenup ensured she never, ever has to let Trump boink her again. In addition to that the number of photo ops was negotiated down to almost never and even the amount of times he’d be allowed to touch her, say holding her hand even less! So his wife, his evil spawn from his first marriage and son Barron who he doesn’t want to be anywhere near (because Barron is soooo much taller!) are nowhere to be found. And daughter Tiffany from his marriage to trophy wife #2 seems to have gone into Witness Protection. Her mom Marla Maples tried so hard to keep her daughter out of Trump World but Tiffany seems to have enough of daddy’s genes in her that even say ten years of serious but not back-breaking work (like other grads of top law schools) would have her in line for a generous income and partnership at a top white collar DC law firm. But she took the easy route, the fat salary and make-work job at the Trump Org. (You don’t think despite her having actual brains and credentials Trump would trust her with anything do you?) which she’s probably already regretting.

Think about it. Trump, who doesn’t even like anyone in his family anyway can’t get the time of day from them tonight. People he PAYS like his lawyers almost certainly want at least a Saturday evening off. Hell, even PUTIN probably stopped taking his calls long ago, and might even be dying, actually this time dying as I write this. Even GOPer politicians who will be sucking up to him come Monday have better things to do than listen to Trump whining and bitching on the phone. Best of all, deep down inside in the part of him he hates for being there he knows even any glad-handers at his tacky club are phonies, that few actually like him. That they are only there and if he’s mingling being nice just trying to get something for the ridiculous and too-large membership fee they paid. Hence my earlier comments about being alone even in a crowd.

It truly is: Another Saturday Night, and Trump’s Got Nobody. He’s got some money cause his MAGAs still pay. But how he wished he had someone to talk to; He’s in an awful (as in lonely as hell) way.

I for one don’t feel the least bit sorry for him. In fact, I take some pleasure from knowing how lonely and abandoned he feels.