Junior Sells What’s Left Of His Soul

According to his cousin Mary, Donald Trump, Jr. never became his own person. He sold out and knuckled under to his father. We’ve all heard the story of how Donald Senior came to Junior’s college to take him out somewhere, I believe it was a ballgame. Junior opened the door and Senior didn’t like how he was dressed, so he knocked him to the ground. I don’t know if that’s a true story or merely an apocryphal one, but let’s say that nobody ever contested it overmuch at the time it was released.

The story goes that Junior hated his father and certainly that’s believable. A lot of fathers and sons have strong disagreements, that’s as old as humanity itself, but relatively few fathers and sons actually hate one another. I believe that Junior does feel that way — not that I blame him in the least. Where his time of reckoning came, at least according to his cousin, Mary, is that he didn’t cut the ties and go make his own life and tell Daddy to stuff it, because he heard the siren call of power and easy money. Everything in life comes with a price and this is the price that Junior has paid. This is who he has become tethered to his father and shilling for his father. It’s nothing he can do without chemical assistance and again, I completely get it. I wouldn’t be able to do it either.

If everyone watching this video chips in, we’ll be able to drown out the liberal billionaires who fund Biden’s campaign, once and for all.

If you can’t contribute now, take care of your family and yourself first. When my father is back in office, we'll Make America Great Again.

— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) March 13, 2024

The man looks and sounds like he’s in pain. That is because he is. And what a message, give Trump some money so that he can wipe out the opposition “once and for all.” Terrific. They’re not even hiding that this isn’t about one more four-year term, this is for keepsies, once and for all. This is voting for a different form of government, a different way of life.

Here is tonight’s podcast, same thing, if not worse.

Or a bar, or anywhere. 😳

— Skittles is Mild Feel☕ (@Skittles_Is6) March 24, 2024

He’s rail thin and his clothes hang on him. This is not the portrait of a healthy man. But he’s never going to get healthy until this entire Trump madness finally explodes, which it’s in the process of doing. The guy is loaded and even loaded, he’s pushing himself. If this was an actor in a TV series, I guarantee you that some director or executive would talk to him and say, “You need to get in touch. This character is strained and not believable. You look and sound miserable.”

This is what it is, evidently, to be waiting for some portion of the Trump fortune, whatever is left.

Junior supposedly has intelligence and I believe that he’s smarter than his brother, Eric, because a fence post is smarter than Eric. But it’s entirely possible that Junior has some actual intelligence. That would explain him getting loaded all the time. Eric might believe his father’s bullshit but I think Junior knows who and what his father is. Maybe not. But I would bet that he wakes up in the middle of the night, or comes to in the middle of the day, and has some awareness of the colossal mess his father has created and how it affects him.

Of the three elder Trump kids Junior is the least approachable and most angry, according to film crews that have followed them. Ivanka is the princess and Eric is the most approachable.

The kids all know this on some level. They may spin it, they may lie about it, because they have to do so publicly. But they’ve got to know, unless they are utterly oblivious, how horrible their father is. Or, maybe I give them too much credit.

My point is that, especially with respect to Junior, happy, well adjusted people aren’t loaded all the time. If you need to put a chemical barrier between yourself and reality it’s because something is awry on a deep seated level.

This is what Mary Trump says. That Junior made the choice to throw away his personhood and just capitulate to his father. And apparently being strung out is the only way he can stand being in his own skin.

This is who Junior is defending and begging for money for. Nobody is so oblivious that they can turn a blind eye to this. Nobody sane in any event.

The Trumps are an interesting slice of Americana. They are the worst of who and what we are. And if Mar-a-Lago is the realm of the beautiful people, I’m happy to be one of the dorks. Just like if the evangelical wingnuts are the ones going to Heaven, I’ll take my chances in Hell.