The atmosphere at Mar-a-Lago these days must be similar to that of the Hitler bunker in the final days. The bunker has been depicted as a scene of desperation, recrimination and denial. Those terms equally apply to almost anything that Donald Trump has done since his resounding defeat at the hands of Joe Biden and his equally resounding inability to deal with same.
Tuesday night Kanye “Ye” West took a pilgrimage to the Oracle of MAGA. Ye’s purpose was to ask the Oracle if he would be his, Ye’s, running mate. Initially, Trump may have taken this as a joke but it probably became evident that Ye was serious.
Whomever the mole(s) is or are, they seem to be talking to both Daily Beast and Axios: Here’s what it sounded like.Â
Why it matters: Trump’s direct engagement with a man labeled a “white supremacist” by the Justice Department, one week after declaring his 2024 candidacy, is likely to draw renewed outrage over the former president’s embrace of extremists. […]
What they’re saying:Â “Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about,” Trump said in a statement. […]
Behind the scenes:Â A source familiar with the dinner conversation told Axios that Trump “seemed very taken” with Fuentes, impressed that the 24-year-old was able to rattle off statistics and recall speeches dating back to his 2016 campaign.
- Paraphrasing the conversation, the source said Fuentes told the president he preferred him to be “authentic,” and that Trump seemed scripted and unlike himself during his recent 2024 campaign announcement speech.
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Trump responded, “You like it better when I just speak off the cuff,” the source said. Fuentes replied that he did, calling Trump an “amazing” president when he was unrestrained. “There was a lot of fawning back and forth,” the source added.
Fuentes told Trump that he represented a side of Trump’s base that was disappointed with his newly cautious approach, especially with what some far-right activists view as a lack of support for those charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
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Trump didn’t disagree with Fuentes, but said he has advisers who want him to read off teleprompters and be more “presidential.” Notably, Trump referred to himself as a politician, which he has been loathe to do in the past.
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Fuentes also told Trump that he would crush potential 2024 Republican rivals in a primary, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Trump asked for Fuentes’ opinion on other candidates as well.
Trump at one point turned to Ye and said, “I really like this guy. He gets me,” according to the source.
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“To be honest, I don’t believe the president knew who the hell [Fuentes] was,” the source added.
To be honest, I believe the source. Trump is that stupid and as anyone who wants to control Trump knows, the way to dominance is fawning, sycophantic flattery. Ask Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, they’ll explain it to you.
Now here is an interesting tidbit. Pay close attention to this.
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A source familiar with the conversation told Axios Trump took a phone call during the dinner, and his demeanor toward Ye seemed to change when he got off the call. Trump made some nasty comments about Ye’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, and told the rapper to pass them on.
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Ye, who has lost major sponsorships over his anti-Semitism and recent far-right associations, has said he wants to run for president in 2024. The rapper claims Trump started “screaming” at him at the dinner and told him he would lose — “most perturbed” by Ye asking Trump to be his running mate.
Who could the phone call have been from? Hard to say, but I think that the substance of the phone call might have been somebody trying to give Trump the high sign that he was being had and to explain who and what Fuentes was. That’s pretty much a no-brainer considering the 180 degree reversal Trump did.
And who would use a phrase like “most perturbed” to describe one of Trump’s infantile hissy fits? You know who? Sebastian Gorka. Maybe he’s the mole. Or, it could be Mr. Sanctimonious himself and we don’t mean Ron DeSantis. We mean Mike Pence.
I can see where all this is going now, into a parody of Spy v. Spy, except it’s Mole v. Mole, Mar-a-Lago style.
Stay tuned.
You know, if you ever get drunk and think the next day you made a damned fool of yourself, tell everyone you were just talking off the cuff. It’s the term former guy uses to describe the word salad he spews at his klan rallies.
How does someone turn up with an uninvited, unamed dinner guest and make it past Secret Service to dine ex-President President? This adds another arrow in the DOJ quiver that Mar-A-Lago is not secure just like the Secret Service let in the woman who fraudulently was claiming she was a Rothchild. Just think what a deep cover trained foreign intelligence operative could and may have gotten away with.
and probably did. The lax security at that florida monstrosity did not just pop up after he was voted out of office. I seem to remember him walking around the damned place having with that stupid cell of his not watching what he was saying (duh) all the while having a conversation better left unheard by his guests that night. It’s not just that the man’s a moron, his security detail must be as well. Still, their carelessness might result in an unfortunate incident for the ex prez, too bad for him.
didn’t he read a confidenrial document by the light of people’s cellphone flashlights once?