What Ever Happened to Donald Trump?

[DonViejo]

Just months after leaving office, the former president has all but disappeared.

APRIL 15, 2021

David A. Graham
Staff writer at The Atlantic

The president was insistent as he left office: “We’re not going anywhere.” It had been a turbulent end of the presidency—impeachment, appalling pardons, and a lengthy dispute over the outcome of the presidential election—but he knew that he had a devoted following, and he had every intention to remain a force in politics. And not just him: His family was eager to cash in on his electoral success, too. Usually a former president laid low for a while after leaving office. He wasn’t going to do that. He’d remain a political force, and the dominant figure in his party.

But the plan didn’t go well. The president sat at his new home—he had decamped from his longtime home state—guzzling Diet Cokes and calling friends to rage about how unfairly he’d been treated and complain about overzealous prosecutors. “You get tired of listening to it,” one friend confessed.

The year was 2001, and the former president was Bill Clinton. “When a president leaves office we expect him to disappear for a while, cede the stage to the new guy, give us some time to forget why we weren’t so sorry to see him go,” Time intoned.

It’s unlikely that Donald Trump will be calling Bill Clinton up to commiserate, not that Clinton would take the call. But if somehow they connected, the two men might find they had something to discuss. Although making any statements about Trump’s relative irrelevance feels like tempting fate, he has remained unexpectedly peripheral since leaving office. You’re not imagining it. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump showed recently that Google search interest and cable-news images of Trump have both returned to roughly where they were before he ran for office. Only cable-news mentions remain significantly elevated, but even they have dropped steeply.

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[Buns_of_Fire]

1. Who?

Sorry, don't mean to minimize the destructive impact he had. But, let's face it -- without his rapacious family, his incompetent ass-kissing cabinet choices, his clownish slovenly orange appearance, his bullying Tweets, and his supporting cast of simpering sycophants...

...he's just not that interesting.

[dalton99a]

2. He's busy counting his loot

waiting for nature to do its necessary duty

[onecaliberal]

3. Clinton served two terms, earned the popular vote and didn't sick crazy people to try to kill

republicans in the government. Trump is alone and there is no one who would care to talk to him, he is in a class all by himself.

[northoftheborder]

4. What a happy state - not missing the demagogic gas-bag.

[empedocles]

5. Wonder what happened to melania/Baron?

[dalton99a]

11. Melania is trying to find a pool boy

Maybe she's propositioning her Secret Service agents

[Deuxcents]

6. I don't care

Do you? I’d be happy to never hear or see anything about any of em ever again. Except..when they pay for their crimes.

[Tommy Carcetti]

7. Shhh. Don't say anything.

It's like Beetlejuice.

[MineralMan]

8. He is done, I think, in politics.

He has no useful outlet for his rantings any longer. The more time that passes, the less important what he has to say will be, even to Republicans.

He has essentially dropped out of sight, really. His clout is gone. His pulpit is gone. He is gone, and good riddance to him.

[BoringUsername]

9. Why should we care?

We've heard more than enough from him already. If he's being quiet, then good.

[Patterson]

10. I think we see and hear too much of him.

[SoonerPride]

13. Yes this too.

Still too much about him is said snd passed along

[SoonerPride]

12. We have Twitter to thank for his disappearance

If he still had Twitter we would still hear about his rantings daily.

Trust me.

Thank you Twitter for shutting off his spigot of hate snd lies.

[raccoon]

14. Gators got him? If so, the gator should be the FL state reptile.

Unless it already is.

[usajumpedtheshark]

15. Being held accountable sure hasn't happened