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fightforfreedom

(4,913 posts)
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 08:18 AM Nov 2022

Trumps presidential announcement was more like a funeral announcement.

His act doesn't work anymore. Everybody has seen the show a thousand times. Even his kids are bailing on him. Big donors are bailing on him. Republicans in Congress are bailing on him.

All the investigations are closing in on him. That is a bad combination for Trump.

Fuck Trump. There is one final act in the Trump freak show. His downfall.

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Trumps presidential announcement was more like a funeral announcement. (Original Post) fightforfreedom Nov 2022 OP
I want bdamomma Nov 2022 #1
The people trying to leave early luvallpeeps Nov 2022 #2
All I want to know is AleksS Nov 2022 #3
I think so. luvallpeeps Nov 2022 #4
The only real power Trump has left is to spoil the 2024 elections for Republicans. sop Nov 2022 #6
He will try to burn everything down but I don't think he leftyladyfrommo Nov 2022 #7
Most of us here saw how this would go, beginning back in 2015. yardwork Nov 2022 #5
That is true. fightforfreedom Nov 2022 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author fightforfreedom Nov 2022 #9
It was a funeral malaise Nov 2022 #10
It was a funeral malaise Nov 2022 #11
It's all a grift Johnny2X2X Nov 2022 #12
He forgot that the whole thing was supposed to be a grift. He should have come out, high energy. 3Hotdogs Nov 2022 #13
He thinks this hail mary will protect him - he knows he is toast. Blues Heron Nov 2022 #14
The corpse at every funeral Blue Owl Nov 2022 #15
Good one! yardwork Nov 2022 #18
I think it more like the Trump version of "I am not a crook" speech. honest.abe Nov 2022 #16
It's alright - Steiner's counterattack will restore the situation! hatrack Nov 2022 #17
A GOP funeral is coming Kennah Nov 2022 #19

luvallpeeps

(935 posts)
2. The people trying to leave early
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 08:41 AM
Nov 2022

But they were stuck inside. Forced to listen to that tired tyrant. How symbolic. Wonder who else wants out, but can’t go hmm Lindsey?

luvallpeeps

(935 posts)
4. I think so.
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 09:07 AM
Nov 2022

They’re so rabid and ignorant. Just like him, they have no sense of community. They’ll bite their own noses off to spite their faces. It will be a massive shitshow.

sop

(10,177 posts)
6. The only real power Trump has left is to spoil the 2024 elections for Republicans.
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 09:12 AM
Nov 2022

Once he realizes his party's establishment has turned against him, the always vindictive Trump will play the role of saboteur.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,868 posts)
7. He will try to burn everything down but I don't think he
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 09:16 AM
Nov 2022

has the pull to do it anymore.

He is being ghosted.

yardwork

(61,608 posts)
5. Most of us here saw how this would go, beginning back in 2015.
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 09:10 AM
Nov 2022

It's been like witnessing a slow-motion car accident, right next to it, dodging wreckage, unable to stop it. Living in a horror movie. Trying to reason with people who refused to see it.

It will end badly for Trump. But a lot of things will be broken.

 

fightforfreedom

(4,913 posts)
8. That is true.
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 09:22 AM
Nov 2022

Most people here knew right away a Trump presidency would end badly. It was unreal how so many Trump voters did not listen to reason, rejected reality. It has been a horror show. It's like living out a Stephen King Novel.

Response to yardwork (Reply #5)

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
12. It's all a grift
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 09:29 AM
Nov 2022

Sure, if things go wrong for Dems, Trump has an outside chance to win. But he's realized these last 6 years, that running for President is the easiest grift of all time. He is taking most of the money the RNC is getting and funneling it through his businesses. His entire life is expenses away as a campaign expense.

You saw him hold onto $85M while his candidate's campaigns starved in this election. That's his money in his mind, he's not giving a penny to anyone who doesn't publicly grovel. And he'll ride this gravy train into the ground, not until the last dime is grifted will he quit.

My prediction is that he loses the primaries and still won't quit, he'll threaten a 3rd party run before the convention. And there will be lawsuits because he'll refuse to give up a dime of the Republican campaign cash he has been collecting.

3Hotdogs

(12,376 posts)
13. He forgot that the whole thing was supposed to be a grift. He should have come out, high energy.
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 09:30 AM
Nov 2022

Maybe 15 minutes of "unfinished business." Complete The Wall.

Investigate election fraud.

Fix the unfair tax structure.

Stop crime..... immigrants cause crime



That would have carried him through a year of rallies where he could grift, maybe another $100m from the rubes.

Kennah

(14,265 posts)
19. A GOP funeral is coming
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 01:13 PM
Nov 2022

Not sure when they are gonna code or when docs are gonna call it. But it's good to plan ahead.

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