Trump’s Doubled-Headed Eric Coin Toss Reveals Own Insecurity, Desperation As He Loses Ground

I wonder if Machiavelli had a combover? I know he didn’t drink Diet Coke, because it didn’t exist back then and he probably didn’t have the equivalent of Bikers For Trump to go to, to ask for strategic and tactical advice. But Donald Trump has it all and we saw yesterday how he’s operating from Mar-a-Lago these days, throwing wooden shoes into the GOP machinery at a furious pace.

Here is the endorsement of the two Erics, the one size fits all in endorsements, if you missed it yesterday.

There is a BIG Election in the Great State of Missouri, and we must send a MAGA Champion and True Warrior to the U.S. Senate, someone who will fight for Border Security, Election Integrity, our Military and Great Veterans, together with having a powerful toughness on Crime and the Border. I trust the Great People of Missouri, on this one, to make up their own minds, much as they did when they gave me landslide victories in the 2016 and 2020 Elections, and I am therefore proud to announce that ERIC has my Complete and Total Endorsement!

Politico:

At one point it was suggested that he could endorse “Eric,” and that by doing so he would be supporting both Schmitt and Greitens.

It was a madcap exit ramp. But Trump went in on the details, asking if the two candidates’ first names were spelled identically — noting that it wouldn’t work if they weren’t. While Trump was intrigued, he also remarked that it might be too cute. He asked for draft endorsements to review, one announcing his support for Schmitt, the other for Greitens…

…But Trump circled back to the idea of endorsing the two Erics, reasoning that there were pluses and minuses to both, and that by doing so it would provide to each the opportunity to win with his support. He drafted a statement that would soon go out.

Jack Holmes, Esquire Magazine:

The tone here, as if Trump is negotiating a nuclear deal with North Korea, is pleasing. (Elsewhere, we learn he heard the founder of Bikers for Trump was milling around his golf club at the time, so he asked him.) But this episode also reveals that Trump is not that confident in the power of his endorsement; that it’s solely dictated by who he thinks will win, so that he can say he propelled them to victory and make it a win for himself; and that the MAGA HERO PATRIOT FIGHTER window dressing he applies to whomever he chooses is essentially meaningless. Whoever wins is “someone who will fight for Border Security, Election Integrity, our Military and Great Veterans, together with having a powerful toughness on Crime and the Border.” Who cares who, or what they would do to advance these causes? They won, they’re wearing the uniform. Hell, give it to the Trump kid.

Why not? They’re all foot soldiers in the MAGA Army, right? What’s that you say? Political candidates are not fungible goods? They are now. I have to admit that it never occurred to me but as Shakespeare said, “what’s in a name?” Just extend that to include “what’s in a policy?” A MAGA policy put forth by anybody is the same bullshit, amirite, so who cares who’s on the ballot?

The GOP does not care who is on its ballot. That was the revelation of 2016. We are still living with the permutations of that revelation to this day.

There’s no question that the days of Trump are numbered, one way or the other. The big question is what oh what is to become of the GOP? And by extension, our democratic system of government?

[Composite photo by Newsweek]