Donald Trump hasn’t been doing well. Many are saying that Trump simply can’t get over President Biden dropping out of the race. Many are saying that Trump isn’t happy about being talked into choosing JD Vance as his running mate. Many are saying that Trump is too stupid, too senile, too old, too racist and too set-in-his-ways to change course now that he’s running against Kamala Harris. Well, Gabe Sherman at Vanity Fair has a fascinating view of what’s going on behind the scenes.
Trump has done the unthinkable, choke a lead: “It’s like he’s choosing to lose,” a frustrated Republican close to the campaign said. Trump has been in a self-destructive spiral since the moment Democrats replaced Joe Biden with Kamala Harris. Trump’s descent began when he made a racist claim at a July 31 conference for Black journalists, saying that Harris changed her identity for political gain (“Now she wants to be known as Black,” Trump claimed).
An accurate summary of the past month: At a rally in Georgia a few days later, Trump ranted for nearly 10 minutes about the state’s popular Republican governor, Brian Kemp, whom Trump blamed for his 2020 loss to Biden. “Little Brian, little Brian Kemp. Bad guy,” Trump fumed. On Truth Social, Trump floated unhinged, evidence-free claims, such as his theories that Biden might crash the Democratic National Convention to take the nomination back and that Harris and Democrats are running a psyop by creating AI videos and images of the vice president’s packed rallies. “It’s nuts,” a Trump friend told me.
The Saboteur: Republican donors and Trump campaign officials are struggling to understand why Trump seems to be sabotaging his own candidacy. One theory, according to sources, is that Trump has been experiencing trauma from his near-death experience following the assassination attempt at the rally last month in Butler, Pennsylvania. “He’s been watching that seven-second clip of how close he was to getting shot right in the head—over and over and over again,” the Republican close to the campaign said. “He may actually legit have PTSD.” A campaign official confirmed that the shooting continues to weigh on Trump. “He’s been through a lot,” the official said. (The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.)
Trump can’t let go of the fact that Biden dropped out. “They cheated by swapping Biden,” Trump has told people, according to a person who recently spent time with the Republican presidential nominee. The Trump campaign believed that Harris’s honeymoon would fade, but instead, the opposite has happened: Her momentum is surging. Trump’s advisers have implored him to launch policy attacks on Harris instead of using juvenile nicknames like Laffin Kamala and Kamabla. Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone is among those who want Trump to change tactics. “I do think it’s counterproductive to call her stupid,” he told me. Trump has rejected his team’s advice. According to the Republican close to the campaign, Trump tells his advisers: “I know what I’m doing.”
The thing about PTSD and Trump watching the clip… the thing that’s so strange to me is that the Trump campaign immediately made and sold t-shirts of that photo of Trump with a bloody ear, raising his baby fist in the air. I saw a guy in the gym wearing that stupid t-shirt the other day and I almost started some sh-t over it. It could absolutely be both “a trauma” and “a branding opportunity to sell unhinged t-shirts.” They’re not mutually exclusive. But the whole thing with the shooting… I actually suspect that Trump is upset that people thought it was all a stunt and that he didn’t get the sympathy and praise he was expecting. That is bothering him more than anything. As for Trump “choosing to lose…” No, he’s not. I believe a lot of conspiracies about Trump, but I don’t believe his narcissism would ever allow him to capitulate in any way. If and hopefully when he loses, that orange monster is going to try to start a civil war.
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- Former US President Donald J Trump makes an early appearance on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum This is Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump also named United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate. Featuring: former US President Donald J Trump Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 15 Jul 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former US President Donald J Trump makes an early appearance on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum This is Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump also named United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate. Featuring: former US President Donald J Trump Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 15 Jul 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former US President Donald J Trump makes an early appearance on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum This is Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump also named United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate. Featuring: former US President Donald J Trump Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 15 Jul 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former US President Donald J Trump makes an early appearance on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum This is Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump also named United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate. Featuring: former US President Donald J Trump Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 15 Jul 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former US President Donald J Trump speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum on Thursday, July 18, 2024. Monday night was Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump recounted the story in his speech, and also talked about Biden, immigration, and other topics Featuring: Former US President Donald J Trump Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 18 Jul 2024 Credit: Annabelle Gordon/CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former US President Donald J Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump after Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum on Thursday, July 18, 2024. Monday night was Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump recounted the story in his speech, and also talked about Biden, immigration, and other topics Featuring: Former US President Donald J Trump, former First Lady Melania Trump Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Credit: Annabelle Gordon/CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former United States President Donald J. Trump accepts his party’s nomination as President of the United States at day four of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Featuring: Donald J Trump Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 18 Jul 2024 Credit: Ron Sachs/CNP for NY Post/INSTARimages **NO Daily Mail. NO New York or New Jersey Newspapers.**
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- Former United States President Donald J. Trump welcomes former first lady Melania Trump to the stage after accepting his party’s nomination as President of the United States at day four of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Featuring: Donald J Trump, Melania Trump Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 19 Jul 2024 Credit: Ron Sachs/CNP for NY Post/INSTARimages **NO Daily Mail. NO New York or New Jersey Newspapers.**
He’s not choosing to lose! He’s running as his get out of jail free card. He’s running to exonerate himself. He’s also too stupid and narcissistic to tone down his rhetoric. He’s cruel and unhinged, always has been and THIS is who he is.
Exactly—he has always been this way. Trump might be frustrated, but he’s not changing. He’s trying to win via his beautiful Christians and his personally installed election deniers and his judges.
This. He’s going to prison when he loses. I wouldn’t be surprised if he jetted out of he country.
Yes, he told Elon Musk he’s fleeing to Venezuela when he loses.
All of this, plus he is experiencing rapid mental and physical decline. He isn’t out on the campaign trail because he can’t do it. Republicans bizarrely thought JD Vance would be an effective surrogate and we’ve all seen how that turned out.
Exactly he has a sentencing date coming up in September.. if he is not running for president to win he is going to prison. I’m still shocked that Florida let a convicted felon vote yesterday.
From my understanding, as he was convicted in New York and not in Florida, he can still vote in Florida because New York does not have that provision.
@LBB: willing to bet they don’t make that distinction for other convicted felons in Florida.
Slow.clap. This! He has always been an unhinged, racist, negative, wreck less, pandering, narcissistic that is a slave to the crowd. He’s a slave to the approval, a slave to the worship. He needs the crowds love like we need air to breath. He lights up like a Christmas tree when he gets laughs and cheers. This election season is so delicious it’s got to be fattening. I’m all in with my popcorn.
Right? The man is not giving up anything, he’s still campaigning to win the presidency. The Republicans, as always, are looking for ways/excuses to say, “Oh Kamala Harris wouldn’t have won if Trump didn’t decide to throw the race” which is just BS. Trump is being ass whooped right now in every single poll and that’s not because he’s giving up. And the fact that he is not polling well in any state is what’s really affecting Trump. That and the fact that his name calling is no longer good enough to interest people. No one is coming to his rallies because he has nothing new to offer except call people names and insult every person around him. That strategy stopped selling a long time ago and he can’t think of anything new to offer. It s that simple. He’s not giving anything up, c’mon!! It’s because when President Biden was the running candidate on the DP ticket, the DP pretty much refused to rally behind and support him. Meanwhile the RP rallied behind their felon candidate warts and all. If ALL the Dems had decided to rally behind President Biden, even he would have been polling a lot better than Trump. People now know which side Trump is on; which was ignored in 2016 when voters refused to see him for who he truly is back in 2016, that’s just a fact. And I honestly believe the Russian propaganda machine is no longer as powerful as it was in 2016, that’s why so many extremist right-wing candidates are losing everywhere in the world. Trump won before Russia fully invaded Ukraine and got humiliated badly, so at that time Russia propaganda machine was at its finest. Now that Russia itself is fighting to survive, they have no time or even the means to meddle into any other countries and have Russia friendly candidates elected there. That’s another reason Trump is losing because the Russia propaganda machine that did a number on Sec. Clinton and played a crucial part in Trump’s election has already been grounded to a halt by Ukraine and her allies.
Agree with everything you say.
I laugh at all the republicans who think he’s running because he wants to be president.
He wants to save his ass and he knows the ONLY way to do it is to win the presidency.
He knows what’s going to happen when he loses.
I agree with Kaiser, he’ll try and start a civil war if he loses.
Again for the Republicans who seem not to understand: Trump is saying the same stuff he’s been saying since 2016. No change. It’s just not hitting the same. This isn’t the same as actively tanking.
I can buy that being shot isn’t good for his mental health. I also believe that losing and lack of crowds is not good for his mental health.
Exactly. I don’t see anything different at all about him now than how he has ever behaved. He’s not senile, he’s just lazy and crazy and completely self-obssessed. As per usual. Certain people are just seeing him through a different, more realistic, post-insurrection, post-felony-conviction, post-top-secret-document-theft filter now, somehow. The bloom is off the rose lmao.
He’s also senile.
I think he’s just stupid and can’t shut up. Or he’s been senile since 2016 because I can’t see any difference in the garbage coming out of his orange mouth hole now.
I remember seeing Trump walk on stage at the RNC to announce Vance right after the shooting. He truly looked unnerved to me. I can believe that being in front of crowds has lost its luster after he was shot at under similar circumstances. So there could be some trauma there, but yeah, the rest is just his longstanding pathology.
Exactly. I wrote same above before I read your post. This and the mainstream media now switching to telling people what half-truths instead of their usual total wall to wall lies. The mainstream media networks, for once, are showing Kamala winning in polls and Kamala winning in terms of crowd sizes and Trump is going berserk. Trump loved when he was being shown as “in the lead” when it came to President Biden, LOL. Now that he is the oldest on the ticket and he is not leading in anything, the Republicans are looking to gaslight the masses. Those people are shameless.
Trump’s messaging is rinse and repeat but when he says anything “new”, he antagonizes and offends even more people now. Per media and @KamalaHQ on Twitter, at his rally in North Carolina, “Trump suggests teachers and military service members don’t have real jobs because they’re not “private sector” ”
Craziness!
From Int’l media:
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-army-soldiers-teachers-33472381
I firmly believe he is not going to go quietly and when he looses things will get very bad quickly, but this time hopefully the government is prepared. Also if Trump has PTSD it’s from Joe stepping back and endorsing Kamala Harris, not from the shooting that killed a fire fighter and injured others.
I suspect Trump is just trying to relive his ‘triumphant’ fist pump over and over rather than watching the ‘shooting’ over and over.
How can he suggest Biden cheated when he and a great deal of the American mainstream media were salivating over and pummeling the public with the idea Biden was ‘too old’. Who’s too old now? Oh well…
If Trump does have PTSD shouldn’t the American public be told whether he is receiving proper treatment and have medical information about his physical and mental condition from a proper physician that isn’t fantasy and lies?
According to a recent poll, 70% of Democrats support Biden’s decision to drop out. In an unprecedented move, Biden listened to the voters and ceded power. This was 100% democracy in action and they cannot stand it.
I feel sorry for anybody that has to spend time with this exploding giant baby.
Giant, exploding, *smelly* baby, by all accounts.
Remember when he went after Alicia Machado because, in his (bloated) eyes, she had gained weight? Who’s the TeleTubby now? Live by the fat-shaming, die by the fat-shaming.
It’s hilarious to ponder how his campaign staff, donors and hanger on’s must exist in a state of pensive uncertainty as to what this sh*t stain will say next.
How they literally have him taped together and are forced to hype up this broken wind up chucky doll that reeks of bitterness, waste and decay.
I am living for soundbites when he malfunctions and blurts out unintentional truths like how he called VP Harris ‘beautiful’ the other day.
I really do try and focus on the ridicule instead of how systemic racism and cruelty are his brand and what makes his toothless voters cheer with delight.
I suspect he will call her the N-word next. It will slip out during one of his frothy, unhinged rants. His handlers will try to downplay it but the Internet will have video receipts. It will raise his popularity with his base though, so for the GOP, another display of his racism will be no big deal.
Same comment as for KKKate: he was a narcissistic jerk well before that rally. It’s not PTSD, it’s the chickens coming home to roost.
I agree 100%. Reality is sinking in for this mother f**ker.
“He’s been through a lot.” Not nearly as much as the American people have been through. As for him not getting proper praise for sort of, kinda, getting shot, thanks to the Republican refusal to support common sense gun safety measures, getting shot is not a rare occurrence in the USA.
Trump realizes he’s the old guy now and he’s getting pummeled with that fact every time he opens his mouth. He’s his own worst enemy and he hates facing that truth. And I doubt very much he’s given up on this race, he’s running to stay out of jail, not for the good of this country, and he’s not putting in any effort because he knows he’s got the system rigged if he loses. That’s my fear, that we’re going to have worse than the January 6 insurrection if the election results don’t go the way he wants them to. I just hope Kamala wins by a landslide so there’s no irrefutable doubt that she’s the winner. I cannot believe how a felon like Decrepit Don is on the ticket to run for president.
“I just hope Kamala wins by a landslide so there’s no irrefutable doubt that she’s the winner.”
I’m not sure that’s going to matter, which is scary.
I know, I’m really concerned about election interference and it looks like even a landslide win for Harris won’t avoid that. But I’m hoping that people will overwhelmingly vote for her.
I also am worried about election interference. It should be on the news more. I have read that he has had 4 years to get ready for this and won’t make the same mistakes. As for his followers, we all know they are lunatics.
Trump and his MAGAts will raise hell if he loses. I believe they will physically turn on Black and Brown people and you better believe that Indians and Indian-Americans will not be safe. It will turn ugly fast. We all remember January 6. When his base doesn’t get what they want, they become murderous and blame non-white people. His MAGAts are vicious, violent people and I shudder to think of how dangerous they may become after Trump loses to a Black woman.
It’s crazy to me that anyone in Trump’s orbit is just now starting to say “it’s nuts.”
His first run and occupation served as a trigger for *my* PTSD. I’m pretty sure he didn’t care. This time around, I have continued to protect myself by not listening to sound bites of his voice or pictures (just keep scrolling, just keep scrolling) and it has served me well.
I do care about an escalation of violence when he loses. I don’t have any control over that though beyond refusing to participate in it.
I can believe a lot of this is true. He’s reeling from the election narrative being snatched out from under him when Biden withdrew. Harris’ candidacy thus far has surged in a way that surprised everyone, including Democrats. Add to that the law suits, pressures of campaigning at his age, etc., and he’s probably having a tough time.
He’s also just a nasty, unhinged, narcissistic man-baby with no real rudders to keep him on course.
Brilliant intro, Kaiser, “many say” ! Loved it
For years I came to this site first thing to read the BRF and Sussex news. Now the first articles I open are about the future of our country.
The Orange menace is not choosing to lose – he is in the throes of narcissistic rage because Biden dropped out and he is facing the very real possibility of losing this election (to an African American/Indian WOMAN). Consequently, all of his prison sentences have turned into a harsh reality. He is bigly mad that he will have to pay for all his crimes, that’s it in a nutshell 🤣
I’m not even an American, and I burst into tears when Biden’s victory was called, back into 2020. This guy exhudes kitsch, hate, drama, rac1sm, bigotry, theatricals… All I could think was ‘No more… No more!’ I was so relieved someone like him was separated from the highest position of power a country can hold. Please US be smart this timeas well.
I’m too old to live through another four years of this trickster’s crap, longer if he tries to be a dictator for life with his stranglehold on our freedoms. I can’t even believe potential loss of our democracy has come to this point thanks to the Republicans shoving him back as their candidate.
The Trump Presidency was traumatizing as f**k for a LOT of us. It has torn apart families. One of our closest friends, who used to be a Republican before Obama started running, no longer talks to his two brothers because they’ve been sucked into the MAGA vortex. They used to be close. It’s so sad.
My prayer is that people don’t get complacent watching Trump self-destruct in real-time and forget to vote… because all of his sycophants will VOTE.
I can’t wait to elect our first woman (of color) president in November!!!!
He’s not choosing to lose. He’s a giant angry baby, and for the first time in a long time, nothing is going his way, and because he’s a narcissistic moron, he doesn’t comprehend how to adjust or change, because in his mind, nothing is his fault.
He’s finally facing consequences in the courts, after decades of avoiding it. His whole strategy of attacking Biden and Biden is old, out the window. The polls are not in his favor. The attacks on Harris/Walz are falling totally flat. The guy he was told to pick for VP is a giant weirdo who is both stealing focus AND dragging the ticket down.
I don’t even think he has PTSD, I think he loved the attention and thought it was his hero moment. And I don’t want to be a conspiracy theory nut, but the whole thing is still really fishy to me.
“And I don’t want to be a conspiracy theory nut, but the whole thing is still really fishy to me.”
It’s the one and only conspiracy theory I subscribe to: he was not shot in the ear nor was he grazed by a bullet and nobody can convince me otherwise.
My theory on the shooting: if he was hit it was a shard of glass from the teleprompter, shrapnel, not a bullet. And that’s questionable.
I don’t think it was staged, but I think they knew the shooter was there, and decided to let him be so they could stop him just as he was about to shoot, to make it really dramatic. It backfired and they weren’t able to stop him in time. They waited till the last minute and folks got shot/killed.
This explains why nobody is investigating too deeply and they quickly got the SS head blamed and shamed.
That’s what I think too, Rapunzel, even though the NYT said that it was “most likely” a bullet that grazed his ear. Again. my husband is a paramedic and we have a lot of friends that are medical professionals–I trust their opinion that the wound would be MUCH worse (think-part of ear missing) if that’s what actually happened.
Plus remember him going on and on at one of his dumb rallies about how the ear bleeds more and that’s what his doctor said and that’s why there was so much blood etc etc.
Well if you’ve ever cut yourself on a shard of glass you know how much blood there is….
It felt like he was trying to convince himself and his followers that all the blood was due to the part of his body that was “grazed by a bullet” and not because, ya know, a glass shard hit it.
And finally, the secrecy and utter lack of transparency surrounding the incident was just so damn sus from the very beginning.
There was something hinky about the whole thing and I will go to my grave believing that.
100%
I think he watches the shooting footage over and over because he likes to look at himself. I suspect he thinks that since the bullet only grazed him, it makes him look tough and cool…..in his tiny brain that is.
This is not PTSD. It’s an insult to people who actually have PTSD diagnosed by a literal medical doctor to just throw out that term to justify this awful man’s behavior. He shows signs of dementia and some other issues, but that started long before his ear was cut by a piece of plastic from the teleprompter. (I don’t care what the official lie is, it wasn’t a bullet)
Self sabotage is not the same as “choosing to lose.” Trump can’t help himself – he is not, nor has he ever been, a great strategist. He tapped into something that resonated with a lot of people and he is a masterful marketer – but I would argue he saw and opportunity and exploited it, not that he implemented some great strategy. He can’t change with the times because he is a one-trick pony. He is who he is.
Absolutely this.
I think this is an important and telling bit of information: In the summer of 2021, I had to pack up my 22+ years life in Colorado and move to Dumbfuckistan central PA (pop. 4500) to care for my ailing father (a nursing home was $6,000+ per month, so I was cheaper). When I arrived, I couldn’t swing a dead guppy without hitting a pro trump sign, and lot’s of F Joe Biden banners and flags, etc. And, that was several months after the election. Now, here we are in an election year, and there is one. Yes, ONE house with trump signs/flags/banners. ONE! And this town is 96% GOP.
I was recently reading comments on Crooksandliars.com (a very good liberal blog site), and many commenters who also live in red areas were reporting the same. No trump stuff anywhere. That said, the idea of a civil war is fantasy. Will there be a pockets of unrest? Most certainly, but only from the very small number of diehards. He simply doesn’t have the numbers anymore, and those he still has on the hook are either too old or lazy to do anything but whinge and moan. He has a lot keyboard warriors, but actual warriors will be thin on the ground. They know a jail cell is a probable outcome after seeing what happened with so many J6 traitors.
How do these people explain his unhinged, erratic behavior prior to the shooting? Was he clairvoyant?
Why is everyone talking about Trump as if he’s *had* a sober temperament or solid mental health in the last decade? He’s been publicly identified as an unstable lunatic since 2016 and even from the leaks of his behind-the-scenes behavior during The Apprentice he was so constantly unpredictable they had to heavily edit and re-write around him.
His team has never been able to control him for long and the GOP chose to devote their whole party around him for round 2. And NOW they’re suddenly panicking that he’s spiralling? I never thought leopards would eat *my* face!
I mean, this man ran for the toughest job in the world because his ego was hurt that a Black man made fun of him publicly!!! He’s been unwell for a long, long, time.
When I read early this morning that they think he has PTSD because he keeps watching the video – I rolled my eyes. He keeps watching it because he wants to see himself shout out fight fight with that hateful look on his face,
Is he really still wearing that dressing on his ear? Unless it was torn off, it should be pretty much healed by now, unless he’s playing it for sympathy, to ‘remind’ people of his ‘close call,’ – Or it’s fake.
I’m honestly surprised that he didn’t have his doctor carve a notch out of his ear to make it look more dramatic.
They are just testing out different excuses for him to use after he loses. And too bad he thinks mental health issues are too woke and won’t get help if he actually does have PTSD.
“Trump’s advisers have implored him to launch policy attacks on Harris instead of using juvenile nicknames”
What policies’? He has none that matter to the electorate as a whole. Abortion rights/healthcare? IVF? Climate change? Employment? The unhoused? He only cares about being Putin’s besties and making the United States a Russian colony.
Thank u. Those saying he needs to focus on the policies. Sure, try it. Mostly, he’s mad bc he’s the only old mentally declining candidate left. Honestly, he was before too. But now we really see it.
“Trump’s advisers have implored him to launch policy attacks…”
Considering his policies are those from Project 2025, he can’t counter with or discuss them out loud after pretending to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation. Ofcourse if he’s elected, there will be a speedy implementation of 2025 and HF will be labeled “the great people at …” etc…
He’s just betting on winning by voting shenanigans. He’s not worried about earning votes because he’s planning to steal them.
Is it possible that “sources” are spreading this stuff to justify dropping him? He has always been an unhinged malignant narcissist but he could usually stay on message, which was all they could hope for. Now he’s truly falling apart. And they can’t have that. So the R’s might insist he drop out for health reasons. And that would save him from a humiliating defeat to a Black woman.
The thing that gives me SOLACE regarding political violence ONCE POS Trump 🤬 loses…is that the 😱 INFRASTRUCTURE that was in place in 2020 when that troglodyte was in office is no longer there…Hate groups haven’t been able to flourish like they did from 2016-2020 …and a LOT of those leaders are now in jail…a LOT of their followers got hit with Covid…folks in POWER (Secret Service/FBI/Police) 🤬 who aided in that horror have been laying low because they don’t have a POTUS IN POWER to back them up…and 2024 Trump is NOT 2020 Trump…I will ALWAYS be concerned about political violence after 2020…but the landscape is no longer the same…and I hope that folks see that January 6th is why NO REPUBLICAN POTUS SHOULD EVA GET IN THE WHITEHOUSE AGAIN…because the party has turned fascist and THAT is reflected in the younger Republicans politicians currently in power …i.e. JD Vance🤬
Oh please, don’t act surprised that the stray leopard you brought home decided to eat your face. Sigh.
He might well have PTSD. That’s probably the closest he’s ever been to death. Someone spilled his blood. Combine that with suddenly being the old man in the race, and he’s being confronted with his own mortality in ways that he can’t avoid. Google “narcissistic mortification.”
Sickness and death represent weakness to him, and weakness deserves nothing but contempt. Feeling powerless – and therefore worthless – is his kryptonite. So if he does have PTSD, he’s not going to be able to recognize that fact. Nor is he going to be willing to accept effective treatment and support. So he’ll continue to decompensate. The next few months are going to be wild.
I take great comfort is knowing Trump is way too much of a narcissist to drop out of the race for the good of the Republican party. The Weird Twins are tanking this election and the credibility of MAGA voters on a grand scale.
I think part of Trump’s problem is that he has lost that “exciting” factor. (Please keep in mind, he has always been a despicable POS.) However, in his earlier campaigns he had energy, some “policy” speeches and some (???) humor. Now, all the energetic, “positive” aspects of him are pretty much gone and all that is left is a ranting, “senile,” lunatic. His schtick has gotten old even for people who used to think he was the greatest.
Trump is a narcissistic one trick pony. All he has are lies and abuse..As the polls numbers go against him.he will get uglier and sink further with his nastiness. I’m here for all of it.