I’m not talking about the nodding off part. That seems to happen during every meeting Trump has these days. Over and over he nods off and with cameras rolling. Since they try to limit the press to friendly RWNJ outlets it could be hidden except so often the pool feed goes out live! If not to Trump, it’s embarrassing for his handlers and elected/appointed GOPers and talking heads who’s job it is to fluff him. Now, this isn’t what happened in court up in NYC where he’d totally zonk out. Snoring, drooling, farting etc. No, this is more twenty or thirty seconds, sometimes longer but less than a minute when somehow he’s roused to consciousness. I can’t help but wonder how/why?
Something (I think) rouses him, and the “something” might be a clever plan. Maybe, just maybe Susie Wiles turned to technology. Tricked Trump into using an ear wig into which they’d remind him of talking points. He’d be insulted and refuse but there’s a way, an incentive they could use to get him to go along. (Hint – Trump imagines himself a real life ‘Don Juan’) However, the real strategy in play is to be able to, when he nods off have the word the word SHARKS whispered into it!
Think about it. Trump is obsessed with sharks and like most of us scared of them. People, divers do actually swim with them. Personally I think they’re nuts but we are told by experts that absent certain things that would attract shark’s to attack it’s not as dangerous as it seems. Well, there’s little I think Trump’s right about but when it comes to stay the hell away from sharks is best. Of course, I wouldn’t be afraid to swim over at one of North Carolina’s beaches, or go out on a boat like Trump would. Trump’s precious (gaudy ass ugly) Mar A Lago sits on the ocean and he NEVER goes anywhere near the water. That’s how afraid he is of sharks.
The dude is freaking OBSESSED at times. Remember the ramblings at some speech about whether it would be better to stick with a sinking boat and get electrocuted by the battery than being eaten by a shark? That friends is the mark of someone who thinks about sharks more than most of us and who’s fear is batshit insane if he speculates in such ways. I think SNL could send Trump over the edge if they revived the “Land Shark” routine, and added a final scene with the Land Shark tricking Trump into opening the door to the Oval Office. Hey, he hates being mocked. This would be a twofer. His palatable over-the-edge fear and being a dumbass that gets tricked in a sketch on a widely popular and watched comedy show.
Like all dictators he HATES being made fun of. Yet with SNL (as with other programs) he’s like people driving past a bad car wreck – he can’t help but look. So he’d see it and since what’s left of his rotting brain would be obsessed with sharks all night long since he wouldn’t be able to sleep we’d get some epic rage tweeting.
Anyway, imagine he’s sitting there at some meeting he doesn’t want to be in. Miller or Wiles can use a control device from another room to whisper policy points in his ear. Or press a different button that has some phone-sex operator that can imitate whatever women he’s obsessed with at the moment cooing in his ear to make him smile. BUT, when he starts nodding off there’s a third button. Not the ‘live feed’ of advice, or the one with the hoochie mamas telling him what a studmuffin he is. No, THIS one gently whispers the word “Sharks” and keeps repeating at just a little louder volume until he opens his eyes – at which the woman with the sexy talk button get pushed.
That would account for the confused looks. But as he’s dozing off into semi or unconsciousness introducing the word ‘Sharks” would rattle around in his not all there even when he’s awake mind. It WOULD register. Of that I’m sure. Make him open his eyes just to make sure he’s surrounded by people and not sharks!
Ok, so it’s been a long day and my own brain housing group is in weird territory. Still, we don’t see anyone tapping on Trumpty’s shoulder, or nudging him in the side. As for kicking him under the table well, that’s a bad idea. I say that as someone who was forced into early retirement on disability due to development of severe neuropathy in my feet and lower legs. Like Trump I also have poor circulation and without compression socks my ankles (and feet) would swell up like you see with him. The point is it would take quite a kick to get is attention and neuropathy is strange. You can’t actually feel on a certain level, but there are ways you CAN and when something inflicts some pain you damn well feel it. They can’t risk Trump being roused from near deep sleep exclaiming ‘Who the hell kicked me?”
So I’m going with my technology suggestion. They could get Trump to wear the ear wig by telling him it would just be the ‘hot talk’ unless there was some point he’d wanted to make and missed doing so. As long as he doesn’t find out the REAL reason he’d go for it. At least I think so. Only a few people, maybe just Wiles and Miller would even know about the device, plus whatever computer geek Musk brought in for DOGE who created it for them. That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it!
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No self respecting shark – tiger, great white, wobbegong, hammerhead – would chow down on that lump of suet, no matter how bitey and hungry a shark may be (it’d be very improper of any shark to do that, but they do have a tendency to bite … and that’s no bull) 🙂
“Think about it. Trump is obsessed with sharks and like most of us scared of them. People, divers do actually swim with them. Personally I think they’re nuts but we are told by experts that absent certain things that would attract shark’s to attack it’s not as dangerous as it seems. Well, there’s little I think Trump’s right about but when it comes to stay the hell away from sharks is best.”
Well, in fairness, most divers who “swim with” sharks are usually swimming with some of the less aggressive species. Few divers would willingly want to swim with a Great White Shark or a Tiger Shark (usually, when you see anyone in the water with either of these species known to be active in the area, they’re in cages for their own protection). But Lemon Sharks, Blue Sharks and Blacktip Reef Sharks are relatively benign when it comes to humans. Most experienced divers will know or learn things they can do to minimize the chances of being attacked, even by some of the more aggressive species (some species will attack lone humans simply mistaking them for seals or other prey; some species are attracted by bright or shiny things so wearing darker diving suits and not carrying metallic items).
Instead of SHARKS maybe the code word is a sexist/mysogynist ” boobies” or “hot check.”
Sorry, last code word was “hot chick.”
pone morning in the dry tortugas i waljed down to the water for a bath/snorkel. a woman was walji g up from the beach and she was very excited. she told me she had just seen a shark. she was gleeful. it was a fun experience for her. i thought that was pretty cool.