Behind Closed Doors...

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14. They can't drop him. They can't keep him. Makes you wonder if they wouldn't "welcome" an accident.

Spoiler Alert for those who have not read James Thurber's "The Greatest Man in the World". Do so now.

https://loa-shared.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Thurber_Greatest_Man.pdf

The L.A.Times framed it in 2015. Comparing Trump to Aviation Hero Smurch:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-donald-trump-greatest-man-world-20150916-story.html (no paywall for me, and I substitute orange makeup for tobacco juice. )

the “greatest man” in the world was a low-rent criminal and a cheap, orange-smeared vulgarian.


And a befuddled government makes him have an accident, interestingly, falling out a window, to save the embarrassment.

The article has full spoilers.

2015:

The quandary for the sober-sided Republican leadership is, do they try to throw Trump out the window, make it look like an accident, and give him a fancy political funeral where they can, like Thurber’s men of substance, carry on about how well Trump served his party and his country?

Or is Trump truly so big – “really huge” – that he doesn’t need those GOP stiffs and mugs? Just maybe, he could wind up tossing the GOP establishment from the window instead, as the crowd in the street cheers.

Yes, he did. And now, the tables are turned, but will the completely neutered GOP toss him out a window? Instead, they might "hope" that someone on a rooftop ...