I have a question: why Isn’t this guy dead already? What’s keeping this guy alive, besides cheeseburgers and diet coke?
With his 12% victory in New Hampshire, Trump has been practically anointed as the Republican nominee. It will be Trump vs. Biden again.
Swell.
Just to remind everybody, Trumpism is not a political movement, it’s a personality disorder. Now it’s a personality disorder that has been adopted by an entire class of people.
There is no Trumpism without Trump. Ron DeSantis proved that pretty decisively. DeSantis was supposed to be Trump without the baggage. Turns out that he’s just the baggage without the “charm.”
Speaking of the charm, a reporter for Politico has been attending Trump rallies — so that we don’t have to — and has noted how much more charmless and unfocused his speeches have become than they used to be (and they weren’t exactly the epitome of focused brevity in previous years). In any case, as Ian Ward reported:
| In speech after speech in New Hampshire, Trump mentioned, in no particular order: Joe Biden’s inability to pick up a beach chair; his uncleDr. John Trump’s career at MIT; Al Capone and Scarface; the difference between prison and jails; Hannibal Lecter; a real estate deal with Ted Kennedy; and the weather in Iowa. |
Swell.
If Trump actually has to debate someone this year, I do think that the non-MAGA population will be a little bit shocked by how incoherent Trump has become. I mean he’s been incoherent for a while, but he did used to be occasionally entertaining, even if in a very ass-backward kind of way.
Now, Trump had four siblings and three of them are already dead:
- Fred, the “good” brother, and father of Trump nemesys Mary L. Trump, drank himself to death back in 1981;
- Maryanne Trump Barry, who was the federal judge, died last year at age 86;
- The undistinguished Robert Trump, his younger brother, died at age 71 back in 2020;
- The forgettable Elizabeth Trump Grau — answer to the trivia question, who the hell is Elizabeth Grau — is still alive at age 82.
So, my question is, why can’t this miserable, bellyaching, crybaby, faultfinding complainer go ahead and die already. That would be one sure-fire way to stay out of jail.