Samuel Johnson said, “…courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.” Donald Trump has no virtues, courage least of all. He never even thought it mattered to have something as abstract as a virtue. I mean, what good is one? Can you sell a virtue? Alas, no. The value of a virtue is immense, but it’s not fungible. Can you get laid if you’ve got one? Probably not. Can you eat a virtue? Not that we know of. So, in Trump’s mind, if you can’t spend it, fuck it, or eat it, what earthly good is it?
Rick Wilson began his Substack post today with this same quote and then went on to clarify that: “Donald Trump is a coward. A chickenshit. He’s a yellow cur, running from, not to, the sounds of the guns.” Then he posted this image,, which will drive Trumpty over the moon when he sees it.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Oh yes, this is the brave man, who doesn’t cower! Who was going right up to that witness stand and testify — at least until the night before, that is, and that plan went awry. Wilson continues:
The long-suffering and wildly incompetent Alina Habba (who for some reason seems to look more like Melania every day) was, of course, dragged publicly for having said, “He will open himself up to whatever they want because he’s not afraid. People that are afraid cower. President Trump doesn’t cower.”
Au contraire, parking lot lawyer.
Trump does cower—often, and with enthusiasm.
From releasing his taxes during the 2016 election to his bogus claim that Barack Obama and Hillary wiretapped Trump Tower to voter fraud accusations in 2020 and roughly 30,000 other claims in between, Trump doesn’t lie for fun.
He lies because he’s afraid of the truth. The truth of his smallness. The truth that he was never a real billionaire. The truth that his ongoing criminal enterprise disguised as a real estate development firm is one concatenating series of scams, grifts, tax frauds, flim-flams, foreign influence schemes, and long cons.
He’s afraid of you knowing the truth of his intellectual shortcomings. (He can barely read.) The truth about his weight and his health. (275 on the low end.) The truth about his vulgar taste. The truth of his accidental victory in 2016. The truth of his weirdness, his unsexy history of paying for sex, his shit-tier parenting, and how many times he’s failed in business and life.
He’s afraid of all this, yes, but he’s drop dead terrified that you’ll find out how much money he isn’t worth. THAT’s going to be the death knell. When Trump is exposed as having, oh let’s just wildly pick a figure, let’s say $80 million (as opposed the $4 billion he would like you to believe he has) he’s going to go bananas.
And you know what will happen next. His enemies, who are worth more money, Robert DeNiro comes to mind, will crow about that fact. Not because they’re the kind of people to shove their wealth down anybody else’s throat, but just because they want to expose Trump for the liar and fraud that he is.
And THAT will kill him. That will be the day that he starts thinking about Hitler in the bunker, and how Hitler ended it all with a bullet, rather than be taken from the bunker and literally ripped into pieces in the street. Or, whatever would have happened to Hitler. It’s hard to know. But it would not have been a pleasant end, of that you may be certain.
Trump unmasked will not be pleasant. He can only lie his way out of so much and my personal belief is that the minute he is shown to not have the money that he said he has, that will be the line of demarcation. That’s when Trump will begin to fall apart.
He can get away with lying about everything to some extent. He’s even got his disciples believing that he’s a trim 215 pounds at 6’3″ a real athletic marvel of a man. But once the financial facade falls, then we’ll see how the swaggering stops.
Coward.
Feeble.
Weak.
Loser.
Broke.
Mental decline.Today just further proves our point. pic.twitter.com/dN7LbWDpZt
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) December 12, 2023
2024 is going to be one fascinating year. There’s going to be a lot of backing down and backing out. This is just the beginning.
All the glitter has just about fallen of this chicken shite, and it’s certainly lost it’s fake veneer of polished bravado. It’s possible this chicken shit is stuck fast to the frayed hiding blanket, too.
Had Hitler emerged alive from his bunker, he’d have been taken by the Russians who were in control of the rubble that had been Berlin. What they’d have done with him would have been most unpleasant, but for sure they’d have kept him alive for a good while, as the ultimate propaganda prize. Then maybe a Gulag forever, a fate far worse than being strung up like the lesser war ciminals.
Something you wrote again makes me flash to the stage version of Camelot and The Seven Deadly Virtues. Hey Lincoln Project – you want to really send up Trump? I’m sure you can find someone to dress up to play Trump and perform this. (I’m available. In forced early retirement, old and fat (as much as Trump) and 6’4″ with a bald head that can easily be fitted with a wig. AND in addition to having been an accomplished “jock” in high school and college was also accomplished in performing arts. Musical theater and even some opera. Best of all my disability would have me stumbling and lurching around like Trump. But I’m sure can come up with someone to do the job) This number captures Trump perfectly.
trump will continue to lie long after it has been proven he is not the rich man he has claimed to be. He will do this because his magats will believe whatever he tells them to believe. The magats believe him regardless of facts telling them otherwise because they are in a cult and that is what defines a cult.
So long as he can perform his little circus acts, I mean “speak” at his rallies, he will continue to live in his little bubble of delusion. When he can no longer do the rallies, hopefully because his ass is rotting in prison, then I think we will see him dissolve into a blubbering mass of fat surrounded by reality. And Ms. strip mall “attorney” is quite wrong: trump is cowering. He still has the ability however to cover it up with his little circus act. This will be difficult, probably impossible, to do in prison.