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The national celebrations after Joe Biden decisively defeated Donald Trump in this month's election focused heavily on the image of Trump being pushed out the door. People took to the streets and boogied down to Steam's 1969 hit "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." Signs carried by celebrants tended to focus more on Trump's loss than Biden's victory. During Saturday's underwhelming MAGA march in Washington, counter-protesters chanted, "Trump, pack your shit! You're illegitimate!"
Alas, like Freddy Krueger or the shark from "Jaws," Trump will not be easy to get rid of. It's not just that he refuses to concede and keeps telling his supporters he will find some legal miracle to invalidate the election, a ruse that stopped being serious several days ago and is now mostly the mercenary pitch of a con man.
"Donald Trump may not be president much longer, but he still wants to run the Republican Party for the foreseeable future," David Jackson and Phillip M. Bailey write in USA Today. "From setting up a political action committee to suggesting he might run again in 2024, Trump is already working to keep his hold on the GOP after his term ends."
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Trump likes to talk, of course, and most of what he says is hot air. As Haberman writes, Trump is merely "trying to survive from one news cycle to the next" as if "surviving" the news cycle somehow means anything after losing an election and his energies are focused on not losing his grip on "his Republican base," the cow he milks for endless attention and vast amounts of cash.
https://news.yahoo.com/lock-him-trump-refuses-leave-180002846.html
empedocles
(15,751 posts)a judge . . . and then penal custody . . . and then an indictment . . . and then . . .
Submariner
(12,498 posts)for the rest of his days we shall hang him with moniker.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Just lock his nasty ass up!
TY for posting, Yo!
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)He will not stop on his crusade to be an autocrat. Hitler did 9 months for treason, got out and went right back to working toward absolute rule.
I think Trump needs more power to feed his narcissism. Bigger and bigger fixes to feed his pathology.
If we have learned nothing else in the last four years is that Trump is persistent and is always pushing legality, pushing common decency and getting even.
Frankly, the only way I think he quits is if he is dead.
Mopar151
(9,975 posts)Blue Owl
(50,274 posts)4,000 volts will shove his fat ass into gear
uponit7771
(90,304 posts)... his presidency and has every benefit of being such afterwards.
I don't see Red Don just going away, he has a literal cult following