Trump's Final Days of Rage and Denial
The last act of the Trump presidency has taken on the stormy elements of a drama more common to history or literature than a modern White House.
'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.>>>
Were approaching the end of the play here and thats where catastrophe always comes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/politics/trump-presidency-election-loss.html?
CatMor
(6,212 posts)I really don't care he's depressed. I've been depressed four years because of him. It will finally be over very soon.
OLDMDDEM
(1,577 posts)We are rounding the curve?
ChazInAz
(2,573 posts)The queen is gone..
The minions have run away.
Birnham wood is creeping closer to High Dunsinane.
Aristus
(66,479 posts)Macbeth doesn't really work, because Macbeth was once a good man and a respected leader.
King Lear doesn't work, because although he was a selfish, narcissistic tyrant, he achieved self-awareness in the end.
Trump was never a respected leader, and will never achieve self-awareness.