Silence out of Mar-a-Lago, what's up?

[WarGamer]

All jokes aside, lets talk about it without memes and jokes.

One, I don't believe a shred of the "CNN reports a Trump adviser says Trump ate toast with jam this morning..."

In Palm Beach, he's surrounded by loyalists and the only "word" that gets out is leaked on purpose.

SO what's he up to? His well known reputation for vengeance has me thinking he's plotting his next moves. But why the silence?

1) Laying low during Impeachment Trial. Opening his mouth may have been just enough to make 17 GOP'ers shut him the hell up.

2) Without Twitter, he's creating an intentional void and a social media vacuum. I expect him to be pushing a new Social Media app soon, a Trumpy Gab, Parler or TikTok looking thing.

3) Has his 757 been brought in for service yet? One of it's engines was past-due for maintenance and FAA laws don't allow an aircraft to be flown without current checks so it was stuck in NJ iirc. He's got the Citation X, of course but he wants to roll up in the big bird.

4) In negotiations for sale of properties? I think he wants to remove all physical and economic presence from NY and other blue States/Cities. I expect to see Trump Tower in NYC sold this year.

5) I expect him to announce the formation of a new SuperPAC and probably a Presidential run sooner rather than later although I don't believe he'll run in 24. Why, you ask? Because if he announces a run he takes on an (kinda) umbrella of protection from lawsuits and prosecution as being "motivated to damage a political opponent".



As a student of history, it's all delicious to watch.

This is the real-life equivalent to the story of Frankenstein's monster. All the little Frankensteins over the last 40 years, Bill Kristol, Steve Schmidt, Glenn Beck, BushCo, etc etc... have been working on a project in the basement to aide them in accomplishing their blue blooded, war loving neo-con bullshit. The project paid off when the monster went into action as the Tea Party and took over DC.

But today, the monster is on the loose and can't be brought back to the lab.

[SheltieLover]

1. Welcome to DU!

[WarGamer]

3. tyvm...

the best place for Politics nerds...

[SheltieLover]

4. It sure is!

[cwydro]

22. Lol.

Thanks for the verification.

[cwydro]

2. Who gives a crap?

Quit him.

Really isn’t hard to do.

[WarGamer]

5. Why?

Every other thread here is about Trump directly or indirectly.

His fate affects us all.

[WarGamer]

12. you're not going to like the next few years, then

He'll be everywhere.

But thx for the discussion!

[WarGamer]

18. As a student of politics, it's all interesting.

[MontanaMama]

7. It's glorious not to see or hear about his damned tweets, isn't it?

I don’t want to hear his name again. Ever.

[cwydro]

10. I know, I keep trashing threads with his name.

Very illuminating to see who keeps posting about him.

[sfstaxprep]

6. FAA Laws?

3) Has his 757 been brought in for service yet? One of it's engines was past-due for maintenance and FAA laws don't allow an aircraft to be flown without current checks so it was stuck in NJ iirc. He's got the Citation X, of course but he wants to roll up in the big bird.


FAA laws? He doesn't give a shit about "laws." Those are for people who get held accountable.

[WarGamer]

9. Won't happen.

Pilots risking careers, tower would never give clearance to move on the runway. That birds not going anywhere without the FAA thumbs up.

[Johnny2X2X]

15. That plane won't fly

Doesn’t matter who he is, that plane will not fly without the proper maintenance. And it probably needs a few million in work.

What I’m interested about though is how he monetized the presidency. What deals does he cash in on now that he’s out. Surely he made many deals and sold many aspects of the presidency.

[Mr.Bill]

28. I remember they used that plane during the campaign

for months with the registration expired.

[Nay]

32. Regulations are just for the little people. nt

[Marie Marie]

34. How horrible. I certainly wouldn't want to see that, in an effort

to once again, skirt the laws and save a few bucks, he might just fly in an unsafe plane.

[bello]

45. Yes, the 757 can fly

The FAA is generally quite cooperative about issuing special ferry permits for non-airworthy aircraft.

[liberal N proud]

11. No Twitter account

No Facebook account
Parler shut down

He has no method to blast his hate.

[WarGamer]

13. I expect a Saudi backed investment group

To drop a billion into a new social media company...

[Laelth]

26. I think he would love to own his own Twitter clone.

Nobody could boot him off of it, and he’s guaranteed 20 million plus users (probably more).

Might be a good gig for him (if he can sit back and let management do its job without too much interference).

-Laelth

[NYC Liberal]

30. He'd have to find a way to make money on it though.

Subscriptions? A large portion of his Twitter followers were bots, so that probably won’t make much.

Ads? You’d have to find enough big companies willing to advertise there. Some right wing companies would but I doubt most mainstream ones would touch it.

I’d love to see him do it though. Another failed business to add to his resume.

[Laelth]

48. I don't think that he would care too much about the money.

He collects plenty from his brain-dead followers. What he really wants is a platform to get the attention and adoration that he craves. Owning his own Twitter-clone would make him very happy (to the extent that he can BE happy, which is very limited).

-Laelth

[JI7]

29. Why would they do that ? He is out of office and they don't benefit in any way

[WarGamer]

46. Because of his future potential to help...

and as payback for MANY favors he did for the Crown.

[Karadeniz]

16. He has a phone.

[Ms. Toad]

36. Phones reach a few people at a time.

Not nearly as efficient at spreading his lies/outrage as social media.

[Karadeniz]

38. I'm sure we could twist Lindsay's arm into helping him out!

[Ms. Toad]

39. So a few x 2 -

since I expect Graham isn't likely to risk having his own social media shut down.

[Karadeniz]

41. I was thinking Fox et al....

[Iliyah]

17. Criminal charges are being complied . . . .

As to the 40 or so years, yes the monsters are lose and are violent. Some are in the republican congress and states across the country. Cut off their money, they tend to fade away.

[WarGamer]

19. absolutely...

[PCIntern]

20. Hey! Is that Tiffany's security guy transferring

to Florida? Asking for a friend and asking for a fiend.

[SoonerPride]

21. I think he is stewing in a pile of his own hate

And it is eating him alive.

He will be dead soon.

But not soon enough.

[dameatball]

24. Now there's a ray of sunshine we could all appreciate.

[Marie Marie]

35. Yea I think his Pity Party is still in full swing.

[Straw Man]

49. When he does expire ...

He will be dead soon.

But not soon enough.

... we can expect a flood of RW media blaming it on Democrats for being so mean to him: "Hounded him to death, they did, yup yup yup ..."

[lunatica]

23. Maybe the sheer number of legal problems is finally sinking in

and he’s forced to address at least some of them. He has to deal with Florida not allowing him to live in Maralago pretty quickly. I guess he can drag it out by using squatters rights, but he also has to decide what to do with all his properties around the world.

I assume he needs much more money than what he gets from his blue collar base. He may be juggling money. Using what he gets from one thing to pay for another. I have my doubts that he’s as rich as he likes everyone to think.

He may be scraping the bottom of the money barrel and his erstwhile tricks are no longer paying off. And lawyers may be really hard to come by now so he has to deal with all the legal letters himself. You know, the ones that are telling him he’s being sued for hundreds of past crimes, and him not being able to find legal representation.

His children have basically become whining pariahs and may be useless in raising any funds for him or themselves.

But the real biggy is that Putin may not be taking his calls now.

[tavernier]

25. So nice to see a real president

Up early in the morning with coffee cup in hand, enjoying a few minutes with his wife and dogs before putting in a grueling 12 hours concentrating on solving the problems of a pandemic and a nation choking from abuse.

[Ms. Toad]

37. I don't care what time he starts his day

but kudos for the rest of it.

(Speaking as someone who works from 11 AM until 2 AM.)

[tavernier]

42. It's all relative

Joe’s 9 am may be very late to people going in at 4 am.

But considering Rump “worked” from 2 to 3, after lunch and before golf, it’s still much more encouraging.

[Ms. Toad]

44. I just get cranky when people equate an early start time with virtue, and a later start time

with laziness. If you aren't a night owl, you may not realize how strong that association is. And especially since I work 150 - 200% as many hours as my early morning peers it grates on my nerves.

[msfiddlestix]

27. Let There Be Silence

please let there be silence from it forever more.

[Mr.Bill]

31. He's probably busy planning for his

inauguration on March 4th.

I'm only half joking about that.

[MyOwnPeace]

33. MY guess is.....

he's busy on 2 fronts:

1. His political dream....
Where to go from here (run again or not), be some type of 'figure-head' for "some" party - the RepubliCons that want to stay with him or something that he'll make up if enough suckers will cough up enough money. Another part of his 'political dream' is to extract revenge on those in the RepubliCon party that dared to oppose him or not drink the Kool-aid as he expected. There WILL be ugly parts about all of this in the coming weeks/months.

2. The "Legal shit"...
He escaped conviction at his second impeachment trial and he'll NEVER get out from under the fact that he was the first and only president to be impeached twice.
However, now that that is out of the way - let the charges/suits/attorneys begin their onslaught! All of the women - all of the tax issues - all of the voter fraud charges - all of the corrupt business issues - his wee-little brain has to be doing flips and spins trying to keep up with all of them.

No, he's not going into retirement quietly - he's got a whole lot of issues pressing down real hard on the wee little brain - and it couldn't happen to a more deserving SOB.......

[MOMFUDSKI]

40. Loved your Frankenstein jam

and I am just HOPING that CNN, MSNBC et al ignore that fat yellow clown and keep his pic off my TV. He deserves as much air time as any other previous presidents got (not a helluva lot) and not a minute more. But ratings . . . and dollars . . . .

[salin]

43. I would bet on selling props - as he has massive loans coming due

Day to day he is probably mostly doing what he did in the WH - watching "all the shows", but without twitter to respond on - he probably just yells at the tv, and picks up the phone to whine and strike out to anyone who will still take his calls (think Graham.)

I also imagine him, as he was described as his casinos were going into bankruptcy and his company collapsing, that he would spend hours looking at swaths of cloth (?) for decorating some project or another - in order to not dwell too long on the reality that he was in.

[WarGamer]

47. Forbes still has his nw at $3B... assets minus debts.

So yeah, he'll be selling off properties.

I'm thinking TT NYC and the Scottish Golf Course will be the first to go.

[Vivienne235729]

50. For the love of god, stop talking about him. The trial is over. Move along.

I think one of the most dangerous things we can do is fixate on his bullshit and give attention to his every whim. The media wants him back bc $$$. But the nation has had enough. Let him fade away.

[ecstatic]

51. Doesn't he owe half a billion dollars to someone?

That's a good reason to STFU.

I'm enjoying the silence.

We ALL need to start enjoying the silence. He's finished. Done. It's over.