Is it a certainty that this man doesn’t drink? Because I have heard this exact level of self pity and whining before, and I’m sure that you have as well, but it usually comes from two sources: very young children (usually pre-teens) and drunks. In AA circles they call it, “pore me, pore me, pour me a drink.” Donald Trump is in a total and complete maudlin meltdown right now and somebody should take his phone away from him. And I’m going to bet that several people have already tried.
You believe the self pity? He’s got his ass so firmly anchored to the pity pot that it’s going to take the jaws of life to pry him loose and get him to the court on time. Can you imagine what he’s going to sound like the night before he has to show up to serve a prison sentence if this is how he mewls and pukes and wails to the heavens about the unfairness of it all? King Lear had nothing on Trump’s performance this Sunday night. Oh how sharper than a serpent’s tooth is an ungrateful everybody, forget about the kids.
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Plus I love the part about how popular and successful he was. Yeah, COVID was a smashing success, the GDP was down, he was the first president since Hoover where jobs were lost and the Hoover comparisons were actually being made, and he was so popular that 81 million people voted against him, the biggest adversarial vote in all American history — until this November, when I’m banking that a bigger number than that may cast a ballot against Trump. Wow, you suppose we could go for 91 million?
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Here’s what Trump is posting on Truth Social and reposting on Twitter. Tomorrow’s trial is about a “minor bookkeeping misdemeanor,” do you love it?
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Once again, there are no victims. No laws have been broken. This is how Trump see it. The world is his china shop and he gets to be the bull and go in and wreck it, but then he’s not really responsible for doing anything, it was just a few dishes, right?
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I would almost guarantee that this will go on all night until somebody medicates him. He needs his beauty rest, God knows, and he has to be up early so he can get into hair and makeup and look good for the cameras.
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The circus goes back to Manhattan tomorrow. But New Yorkers are used to it.
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That’s the plain simple truth of the matter and that’s why he’s here. If he had just taken his lumps and conceded the election and then not run again, he wouldn’t be here. Jimmy Carter took it like a man. George H.W. Bush took it like a man. Even Richard Nixon took his disgrace like a man and he rebounded later in life and actually got some accolades as an elder statesman for his knowledge of foreign policy.
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Trump simply could not take it like a man. He had to cobble together the Big Lie and stage January 6 and then run for president again. That’s what cooked his goose. If he had just left the stage, quietly and with dignity, he wouldn’t be looking at any of this. The Manhattan D.A. might not have investigated this case. But once you run for president you invite a different kind of scrutiny and so Trump finally got investigated. He was friends for years with Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau, who never bothered to investigate him although he could have. He knew who and what Trump was.
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Prosecutors make decisions all the time about how to expend resources and Trump made himself a sitting duck this time by a second presidential run. Lots of time success is defined thusly: You have to know when to quit. Trump doesn’t know when to quit. He never has. And he’s now learning that lesson for the first time.
“Four years ago I was very popular and successful president….”
He was so popular that he was kicked out. As for ‘successful’ – maybe at cheating on the golf course as that (and eating hamberders) was about all he did
He was indeed “successful” if that means wasting time and money. He did both. Our time and money.
If Kenny Rodgers were still with us and could rewrite The Gambler into “The Grifter” the chorus would be:
You got to know when to hold em,
Know when to fold em;
Know when to walk away,
Know when to run
Of course Trump can’t run. He wouldn’t be able to if his life literally depended on being able to run to get away from danger. So he’s left with the first three. What has tripped up almost every grifter and master (big score thefts) thief is that urge to go for one last “score.” Trump was never a great con man to begin with. He got away with so much because he was in NYC where there were so many other big fish to fry and prosecuting mobsters and corporations was the ticket to fame and fortune. Or a political career. Trump was just another high end real estate guy and there were many dozens of his type running around. Plus as you say he made sure to be friends with some important prosecutors. I’ve always wanted to see a truly deep dive into that six month time frame when Rudy G was the U.S. Attorney at SDNY and had political ambitions but being an asshole not raising any money. At least in to an amount that would make lots of donors kick in. His office also had finally done some investigation of the Trump Org. He gets together with Trump and gets a big donation and can brag to other potential donors about a suddenly fat war chest. And the rest is history. As for that investigation it sort of petered out. Hmmmm.
Trump was flashy on the NYC scene but again was able, due in part to the rep he’d gotten from having Roy Cohn working for him at one time he got away with shit. Wasn’t worth the trouble. He loved the spotlight, but was never prepared for the bright, unblinking harshness of the Presidential spotlight. No one, including people who’ve served as VP ever is. And now it’s shining up his butt like the light on whatever that device they use for colonoscopies is called!
As you say had he just STFU and walked away he’d likely not be going through what’s about to happen. Even after Jan 6 if he’d just admitted defeat and not engaged in all the shit he’s engaged in since he’d be off the hook. I’ll bet when Merrick Garland was nominated as AG he had all kind of people who actually knew shit telling him that while Garland would have DOJ prosecute some of the “low hanging fruit” that he wanted no part of going after the organizers, much less Trump himself. They were right of course but Trump’s ego was such he simply wouldn’t listen.
He was at an age where he could have downscaled his Trump Org. even if it meant taking some financial losses. He’d have still been able to make a small fortune in speaking fees, “consulting” for the GOP (for a hefty price getting his MAGAs out to vote) and other stuff. But no. Fuck him. The hell he’s living in this very moment is one of his own making.
Trump’s lifetime is a monument to bad decision making. If he had just taken the money his father left him and put it in the most conservative bonds possible he would actually be worth the twelve billion he claims to be worth.
Yes, bad decisions. Yet he blames Biden. Was it Biden’s fault that Trump decided to sleep with a porn star while his 3rd wife was pregnant/nursing baby # 5 ? Biden made him lie and fudge his business records as a cover-up to pay said pornstar ? This man never takes personal responsibility for anything. Always somebody else’s fault. Maga wants this big crybaby as their leader ?
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Actually, Denis, Kenny’s only contribution to “The Gambler” was singing it. Bobby Bare (probably best known for recording the first hit versions of “Detroit City” and “500 Miles Away from Home”) was actually the first to record the song, then when it failed to be a hit, the song’s writer Don Schlitz gave it a go (only to see it fail to hit) and a number of other mainly country artists gave it a go (including Johnny Cash whose version was on an album released right around the same time as Kenny Rogers’ version came out) before Kenny turned it into a genuine classic.
Don Schlitz is still among the living. He also wrote or co-wrote songs like “Forever and Ever, Amen” (by Randy Travis), “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” and “I Feel Lucky” (both by Mary Chapin-Carpenter), “Learning to Live Again” (by Garth Brooks), “Rockin’ with the Rhythm of the Rain” (by the Judds) and “When You Say Nothing at All” (by Keith Whitley and later by Alison Krauss and Union Station). I can’t find anything regarding his politics on his Wiki page (he did compose a song for Bush 41’s “Points of Light” campaign–“Point of Light” by Randy Travis which reached #3 on the country chart in 1991–but that doesn’t really mean a whole lot; Ricky Martin, after all, performed “The Cup of Life” for Shrub’s inauguration but he didn’t remain a fan after the Iraq War started). He might be a Trump fan so he’d never think of altering his song or he might loathe Trump but prefers not to do anything that might diminish the original song’s legacy. (Probably better if Weird Al or someone known for their parody skills takes the heat.)
I have a standing rule…I never have and never will feel sorry for anyone who inherited 412 million dollars.
I don’t know why not. Americans love/hate the rich and hate the poors. More people feel sorry for him than for the more than 1/2 million homeless people in the US. In their eyes the homeless are that way because of their irresponsibility. trump is now poor (relatively speaking) because the dems and their gov’t is after him because he’s been so responsible.