Lady Karma takes a while to catch up to people sometimes, but she never forgets. She makes a herd of elephants look amnesiac. Donald Trump used to love to take shots at Joe Biden for tripping on Air Force One. Many people have tripped on Air Force One, with Gerald Ford having the most spectacular pratfall of all. Mike Pence even tripped badly on Air Force Two. And today we see Trump trip and almost got down and then Marco Rubio did a little trip behind him. Reason? I’m sure Fox News will come up with plenty. That whirring that you hear in the background is the conspiracy theory mill just pushed into overdrive. Expect something like “the Deep State has sabotaged Air Force One so that Trump would trip and even Mr. Rubio tripped as well, so deep was the work of the Deep State,” or twaddle to that effect.
At least Joe Biden can get some much deserved schadenfreude from this. I wonder what Marco and Donald talked about? Is it possible that the Secretary of State tried to persuade the idiot in chief to let him negotiate a peace between Russia and Ukraine? Or has Rubio given up on that.
Trump did find time between golf games to tweet about the protests in Los Angeles and call the mayor and the governor names. That only took a few minutes. And Trump lacks the mental wherewithal to devote more than a tweets time to solving any problem.
Rubio is in an interesting spot. It’s presumed that J.D. Vance will inherit the MAGA throne and run for office in 2028, but it’s also being whispered that if Rubio plays his cards right, Vance will wash out with Trump and Rubio can take over what’s left of the MAGA-detonated GOP.
Far too early to tell, but it’s always wise to examine all of the possibilities and probabilities. And who knows? Maybe Musk will decide who is the next GOP top ticket holder. He would certainly like to believe he has that power. And Musk, not being the most stable fuse in the box, might swing any direction.
As Melania would say, stay tuned.
