Lord, where to begin? Yesterday, this is most of what Donald Trump said/did/indicated-he-would-do that has the Trump Campaign Universe spinning even further out of control (thank you MSNBC for this partial list):
- Didn’t endorse Paul Ryan for congress
- Didn’t endorse John McCain for Senate
- Slapped down Kelly Ayotte for not endorsing him
- Suggested everyone pull their 401k $$ out of stock market
- Always wanted a Purple Heart, and said it was much easier to be given one by a supporter
- Pretty much said sexual harassment was something private, between individuals (!)
- He had no regrets for his twitter attack of Khizr Khan
- Accused Khizr Khan of not liking his anti-Muslim ideas
- “The election is rigged!” (see the postscript)
- Barrack Obama publicly called Trump unfit to serve
- Trump spokes-hater Katrina Pierson said both Obama and Clinton were to blame for the death of Humayan Khan.
- Humayan Khan died in 2004, Geo W. Bush era, when neither Obama nor Clinton were serving in the executive branch of the federal government. No comment from Trump camp.
- Richard Hanna, Meg Whitman, Maria Comella, Republicans, all said they plan to vote for Clinton
And this, friends, is just one day’s worth of bad news that is tearing apart the Republican nominee’s campaign. And it doesn’t appear that Donald Trump gives a hoot about any of this. Maybe he feels that this is just fodder for a single news cycle, it will all pass, and soon he’ll be on to other sunnier things! Like winning the Presidential Election in November, cause that’s what it’s all about with this guy. He just wants to win and what comes after will be endless hours and days of praise and admiration from everyone else in the world!
So Trump’s running for president, and somehow has gotten the nomination of the only party that would have him, the Republicans. He’s one step away from the Oval Office. One step from his goal of being able to brag: I’m the Prez!
But the job is a little more that, right? And I think that Trump has finally figured some of that out. If he wins he’ll have to commit four years of his life to the service of his country, something that he publicly promises to give with great humility. But privately it’s something that most likely scares the living hell out of him. Because it’s four years of being under the public microscope, having his every decision and move publicly analyzed and questioned… being second-guessed by commoners! Gads!!
This is why I truly believe that sometime before the election Donald Trump will take a low road, the same road traveled so callously by Alaskan Gov Sarah Palin and Michael D. “You’re doing a hellava job, Brownee” Brown, FEMA Director during Katrina, after discovering the job was hard, the work was real, and positive results were actually expected.
Yes, I believe Trump will take the low road of Resignation.
Trump probably believes that by quitting the race, thereby avoiding the embarrassment of losing the end-game (to a ‘GYRL!!!’), he will somehow have won the war over the battle. He won’t have won the presidency but for someone with Trump’s sociopath personality quitting before losing somehow equates to winning (don’t think about that last sentence too hard… it’ll just sprain your brain).
Trump’s justification for this? (or Trumptification? (New word! I deed it to Stephen Colbert! (The old SC, not the new)). The Trumptification? All sociopaths, psychopaths, misogynists, narcissists, haters and their ilk, in order to be happy with any decision they make, need to justify that decision. But for these folks the only person they need justify any decision to is themselves because no one else matters. It’s what they all conveniently have in common. Once their course of action is justified then there’s no one left to talk them out of it or argue it’s the wrong thing to do.
I believe that Trump’s Trumptification for quitting the presidential race will be that since the election is already rigged, then his best way to win (and now we get to things that are just freaking unexplainable) is by quitting. He’ll just quit, giving a host of more and more bizarre reasons, and if no one understands his decision then the hell with them! Trump believes in this type of reactionary management style. He lives and breaths it.
He ran for president so he could say he won, just to say to others that he was president. To me this appears to be his only reason… not because he wants to help you, me, anyone not named Trump, but just so he can say: I’m President!
But then, after you become president, more stuff happens, right? Stuff Trump hadn’t previously considered. After you become President you need to do the job. You need to listen. You need to weigh your options because the decisions you make affect not just some guy named Trump but the entire country. That means you need to think about the public. Which means you need to do your public service. And Donald J. Trump doesn’t know or understand the first or smallest thing about public service. Because Donald J. Trump doesn’t want to know anything about serving the public. He has people for that. But the ‘other’ people, the commoners (read: you and me), they expect the president to take care of them. Which for Trump will be a problem, because, and I can’t state this enough: Donald J. Trump doesn’t know or understand the first or smallest thing about public service.
So I believe he’ll quit, and I think it will be soon. He’s not smart enough for the job, has nowhere near the temperament or gravitas to be any country’s president, he knows it, but doesn’t want anyone else to know it. So maybe he’ll do a single debate with Clinton, find something in that to be offended by, and use that as his catalysis to step down. Maybe he’ll quit sooner.
Which, unfortunately, will not cause him to shut the hell up. The run for president is, in Trump’s mind, just a battle in a larger war. What that war is and how it is defined is impossible for me (or anyone) to describe. But Trump sees it, and he lives his life by it. And he’ll probably die fighting this invisible, make-believe war of his.
I see a sick mind that has put itself in the spotlight, surprised by the negative reception, and when upon deciding to cut and run will spew justification after justification for why he’s quitting (though the word ‘quit’ will never come up). This word game will play out across the national media, causing that sick mind to be further on display for all to see. And it will no longer be funny or cute, will no longer be admired or reviled, except by sicker, more warped individuals than Donald J. Trump. It will just be out there as another bizarre chapter in history, to be ridiculed, then pitied for the spectacle it had become and the bullet the country had dodged.
I hope. The 2024 election cycle scares the hell out of me because Trump is not the last crazy candidate coming along in this century. He’s probably just the first. Learning from past mistakes the next ‘Trump’ will be suave, friendly, and approachable. He or she will be attractive and distinguished. They will make sense and give no indication of how truly psychopathic they are. They will be perfect in every way.
Might even be a Democrat. Think it can’t happen here?
********
P.S. “The Election Is Rigged!” We keep hearing him say this. Why? Could be that the election actually is rigged, and by Trump? I’m not saying that this has happened, and I don’t actually believe it has, but if a rigged election in Trump’s favor is in the cards, not only is rigging an election something not beneath Trump, but the narcissist in him could not help but crow about it beforehand. “Hey, I told youz the election was rigged!”
So if Trump wins then, IMHO, Trump was right all along: The election was rigged!
And God help us all!
