Trump's Final Days of Rage and Denial

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — Over the past week, President Trump posted or reposted about 145 messages on Twitter lashing out at the results of an election he lost. He mentioned the coronavirus pandemic now reaching its darkest hours four times — and even then just to assert that he was right about the outbreak and the experts were wrong.

Moody and by accounts of his advisers sometimes depressed, the president barely shows up to work, ignoring the health and economic crises afflicting the nation and largely clearing his public schedule of meetings unrelated to his desperate bid to rewrite the election results. He has fixated on rewarding friends, purging the disloyal and punishing a growing list of perceived enemies that now includes Republican governors, his own attorney general and even Fox News.

The final days of the Trump presidency have taken on the stormy elements of a drama more common to history or literature than a modern White House. His rage and detached-from-reality refusal to concede defeat evoke images of a besieged overlord in some distant land defiantly clinging to power rather than going into exile or an erratic English monarch imposing his version of reality on his cowed court.

And while he will leave office in 46 days, the last few weeks may only foreshadow what he will be like after he departs. Mr. Trump will almost certainly try to shape the national conversation from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and his relentless campaign to discredit the election could undercut his successor, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. Although many Republicans would like to move on, he appears intent on forcing them to remain in thrall to his need for vindication and vilification even after his term expires.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-final-days-of-rage-and-denial/ar-BB1bEZx9?li=BBnb7Kz

[Arne]

1. What happens to an animal when white foam appears around his mouth?

Asking for the whole country.

[demtenjeep]

2. don't they put them down?

they are diseased

[kurtcagle]

3. Well, the coronovirus does come from bats

There is a measure of a man here. Biden has faced political defeat before, and when it happened, he moved on graciously with his life. I give him only a 50% chance of running again in 2024, partially because he has comparatively little ego invested in being president - its a necessary responsibility - and partially because he wants to pave the way for Kamala.

Trump is a narcissistic dictator and ultimately a criminal. He has abused the office both for personal gain and to wield the enormous power of the.office for his own vindictive desires. Now, faced with the consequences of his actions, he is doing everything to delay the inevitable reckoning. I was relieved that he lost, because I feared what Trump would have become without constraints.

In many respects, Trump made a huge mistake after the election: he showed what he was capable of doing to his allies, and I think that those allies are now melting away because they realize the damage that man can do and has done already to them. He's also shown he's not controllable. Trump '24 isn't going to happen, because the GOP cannot risk more of that.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Trump will..."try to shape the national conversation from his Mar-a-Lago estate"

As a "private citizen" anything he may try to do can only happen if he PAYS for the "national conversation"

OR ...........

just like 2016, the MSM continues to give him maximum free coverage.

[underpants]

6. I'd expect him to start calling in to Fox n Friends again

Monday mornings. He thought he got the last word after the Sunday pundit news shows. It’s how he prepped their audience for his run in 2016. You are absolutely correct about the media - that was the biggest factor in his rise in 2015-2016.

[MyOwnPeace]

7. But they might do like the governor of Arizona did.......

look to see who the caller is - then hang up!

[BComplex]

5. " Mr. Trump will almost certainly try to shape the national conversation from his Mar-a-Lago estate

in Florida and his relentless campaign to discredit the election could undercut his successor, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr."

This is on MSM if it happens!! It's not going to happen if they don't keep playing it for ulcer ratings.

[Joinfortmill]

8. After he's gone

Only cover him when necessary. No photos. No video. No audio.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. I'm just grateful my days of rage and feeling blue are finally over.....

well, at least over U.S. politics......

I can sense a big change in moods and attitudes on DU, along with my own. Been sleeping better and my depression is more moderate.

Our Nation has been damaged by the GOP, right-wing media, tRump and his administration. Let the healing begin.

Now, we're ready for Joe and Kamala to attack this damned pandemic, after witch our attitudes and moods will improve even more.

KY........ ........ .......