The Best
Thing Trump Can Do Is The One Thing He Probably Will Not Do
Picture the scene...
It’s the last full week of August, 2020, and the Trump Party Convention (known previously as the Republican National Convention) is in full swing. Or, at least as much as they can do with a global pandemic going on. And the highlight of the whole partisan orgy is about to take place. It’s time for their ruling savior and messiah, President Donald John Trump, to officially accept his “nomination” for a second term in office.
So all cameras turn to Il Trumpe as he stands before a podium or behind some desk in some remote location, knowing that all the world is watching him and getting a perverse satisfaction of it. He can envision the throngs of people chanting his name.
And then... he says that he cannot accept the nomination for four more years in power.
In fact, he announces that he will be immediately stepping down from office and turning the reigns of power over to his number two, who is a number two, Vice President Pence.
At this point, all the Trump Party cultists are in complete shock and disbelief. They have supported him for four years, through thick and thin, showing nothing but blind fealty and love through all of the criticisms and all of the controversies, and now he’s saying he is stepping away from it all.
The reason Orange One gives to his cultists is simple: he’s done everything he wanted to do as President.
He tells them that he’s made America “great again”. He’s supposedly restored America’s “respect” in the world and put the leaders “on notice”. He has saved the economy. He has cut taxes and social programs. He supposedly “fixed” the regulatory agencies, including his most recent reform of the US Postal Service. He has put in the “right” judges in the Supreme Court and all the lower courts. He has embarrassed the Democrats time and time again and thwarted their attempts to depose him through impeachment. And, to top it off, he says that he even saved the nation from a dangerous global pandemic and put it on a path to an accelerated cure.
He’s done it all, he claims, and he says that there is nothing left to do.
And so, he says that he’s done and he will be putting all his support into the new President, Mike Pence, and he instructs his Trump Party loyalists to support and love Pence as they do him, and to help him “keep America great”.
And his cult followers rejoice in their leader’s declared absolute victory as their new chosen one would soon take the stand to give his new “acceptance speech”.
Sounds good, doesn’t it? Even Trump’s critics would love to see that.
Too bad it probably will not happen.
Yes, there have been many people who say that Trump could very well just walk away from the White House. They point to his previous endeavors where he just walks away from a sinking business and passes it to some other group so they could take the blame when they do collapse. Just look at how he handled his casinos. I mean, who drives a casino into bankruptcy? Before Trump, it was unheard of.
And for the past few months there have been those that say that Trump is about ready to bail from the White House like everything else he screwed up. They point to how he’s mismanaged the COVID-19 global pandemic, how the United States is leading the world in people affected with the coronavirus and leading in the deaths. They point to the economy, with the number of people out of work and the number of people who have and will soon lose their homes through no fault of their own. Sure, the financial crackhouse known as the stock market is on full overdose, but even insiders are saying the big crash is coming and it will be hard. And don’t forget, we just experienced the biggest drop in the gross domestic product ever. Ever! Even the Great Depression didn’t gut one-third of the GDP!
Now would be the perfect time for Il Trumpe to do what he’s done in the past and bail. He would be able to leave before the real manure hits the fan, he would be able to do so on his own terms, and he would be able to walk away with thunderous applause and sheer love and praise from his followers. And he could even arrange a deal with Pence so that he would be pardoned for all his past crimes, just like Gerald Ford did for Richard Nixon when Nixon resigned. The Great Narcissist could then retire to his gated Mar a Lago estate with his current wife and their son and watch the nation implode with complete impunity and lifetime pension and protection.
This commentator, however, doesn’t see that happening.
Let’s get brutally honest here... Donald Trump is a narcissist. We all know this. Even his own niece, a clinical psychologist, has openly said so. And she is not alone in that assessment. Trump has put himself into a position of seemingly absolute power, presumed absolute authority, with no consequences whatsoever, and on a cultist pedestal surrounded by people who love and worship him as a messiah and will do anything and everything for him and believe whatever he says. He has turned his party into the Orwellian INSOC and himself as the literal Big Brother.
As long as he is President, he can’t be touched. He can’t be questioned. He can’t be challenged. He can go wherever he wants to, do whatever he wants, eat whatever he wants, and all paid for by the American taxpayers. Not one penny comes from his own pocket while he is there. He can play all the golf he wants to, and he has. He doesn’t even have to stay at the White House. He can stay at his Mar a Lago home and entertain loyal supporters all he wants. And he has. And all with the full protection of the American government.
He really can’t give that up, even if he wanted to. Why would he want to? He is seemingly addicted to the power and the adulation like a crack-whore to drugs.
Sure, he could get a pardon for all his past activities. He could even give himself a pardon before leaving. But no President has ever done that before - no U.S. President has ever been so criminally despicable to even consider needing one - that it may not even be legal or permissible. And there is always a chance that those pardons could be retroactively revoked by the next or even a future President. Unheard of, you say? So was the idea of a self-pardon before Il Trumpe took office. One unheard of idea may require another to fix it.
That’s why he is doing everything in his power to cheat and rig the November election so he will win. It’s why he is attacking the US Postal Service and attacking mail-in voting and doing everything he can to prevent people from voting... that is, if they’re not going to vote for him.
Oh, and don’t try to rationalize “tolerating” the Narcissist-in-Chief for four more years and expect him to step down because of term limits. He has previously floated the idea of being a “president-for-life” and even posted videos of himself running over and over again ad infinitum.
The truth of the matter is this... the only way Narcissist Trump will leave office is if he is voted out in November and possibly even dragged out kicking and screaming in January. Which means it is up to us, the American people, to do our part. All of those fantasies of some other force doing it for the American people, or even him doing it himself, are just that... lazy fantasies.
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