Trump attacks reporter after she revealed his 2024 adviser thinks 'the magic is gone'

[UpInArms]

Source: Independent UK

Donald Trump has attacked a New York Magazine reporter as a “wack job” after she revealed that a member of his own 2024 campaign believes “the magic is gone” for the former president.

Throughout the Christmas period, the one-term president has gone on a series of un-festive rants on his Truth Social platform, fuming about everything from the January 6 House committee report to the US’s southern border and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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The article painted a picture of Mr Trump – who is facing calls to be criminally charged over the Capitol riot – living in near seclusion at Mar-a-Lago and describing his 2024 campaign as a “sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run for reelection”.

… snip …

The advisor, who was not named but works on Mr Trump’s current campaign, described Mr Trump’s appeal as “gone” and admitted that “you can’t get it back”.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-new-york-magazine-truth-social-olivia-nuzzi-b2251866.html

[SoCalDavidS]

1. He Is Such A Fucking ASSHOLE!

All he knows how to do is ATTACK, and place BLAME on others.

A TRUE NARCISSIST!

[smb]

7. He's Like A Bratty Toddler nt

[evolves]

35. He 100% IS

a bratty toddler. Never progressed beyond an emotional age of 2-3.

[peppertree]

2. That said, I'd rather El Cheetolisimo be the nominee - rather than a "fresh face"

No such thing in the GOPee of course - but Big Media will no doubt tout anyone other than Trump that way.

[Funtatlaguy]

18. They really want the "young youthful energetic" DeSantis against

the “old, demented, decrepit” incumbent storyline that they would promote 24 hours a day.

[40RatRod]

26. DeSantis is just another A-Hole like Trump

[bdamomma]

32. I think

tRump, DeSantis, Abbott, the traitors in Congress and Putin, should just go away and be with each other. They all deserve each other.

[Funtatlaguy]

36. Yep. He's just a less charismatic more bigoted version of Trump.

[SouthernDem4ever]

47. Desatanist reminds me of a middle school principle who enjoys being an asshole

Just because he can. Not good for much.

[Funtatlaguy]

49. Yes. He was always picked last for kickball when he was 8 tears old.

[calimary]

41. Selling just another lie.

[LiberalFighter]

3. What a shame.

Maybe he should get his gold-plated toilet out and shine it back up.

[LiberalFighter]

4. I heard the magic the orange idiot used was voodoo.

[Attilatheblond]

23. VooDoo?

Is that what they are calling Kompromat and bribes now?

[Novara]

5. He's nothing but a pathetic loser and even he knows it.

I keep coming back to the part of the J6 investigation regarding taking the mangetometers down and letting people in with weapons.

Everybody keeps focusing on his comment, "They're not here to hurt ME," but the real story is that so many of these armed assholes were outside of the perimeter rather than inside, near the stage, making his crowd look so much smaller.

His ego couldn't take the hit. He wanted heavily armed people to fill out the crowd for the pictures.

[NJCher]

30. hadn't thought of that

the real story is that so many of these armed assholes were outside of the perimeter rather than inside, near the stage, making his crowd look so much smaller.


Totally makes sense. He behaved similarly when in his previous inauguration, he lied about the number of people showing up.

Real sensitive point with this jerk.

[Novara]

43. It's in the J6 report

He was so concerned with the appearance of a large crowd that he wanted to let heavily armed people in, just to make his crowds look bigger.

Complete insecure baby man.

[republianmushroom]

6. there never was magic just very stupid people.

23 months and counting

[Aristus]

9. Right. No magic, just some tawdry and very clumsy sleight-of-hand.

None but the tawdry and the clumsy ever fell for it.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Right, but the magic to capture stupid people.

Which tells me they would have allowed him to grift as long as they believed in him.

“It’s not there. In this business, you can have it and have it so hot and it can go overnight and it’s gone and you can’t get it back,” they said.

“I think we’re just seeing it’s gone. The magic is gone.”

[paleotn]

20. Yep. No shortage of those. But it appears they've moved on

to something different but equally idiotic as Donnie of Orange - ketchup hurler.

[onetexan]

48. DING DING DING

[ificandream]

8. Anyone have a link to the article?

[herding cats]

12. Here you go.

The Final Campaign Inside Donald Trump’s sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run for reelection. (Which isn’t to say he can’t win.)

Donald Trump was calling from Mar-a-Lago. It was a Monday afternoon in the middle of December. He was at his desk in what is known as 45 Office, a room on the second floor, above what is known as the Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom, 20,000 square feet festooned with 16 sedan-size crystal chandeliers and what he claims to be $7 million of gold leaf.

Members of the Mar-a-Lago Club, who pay $200,000 initiation fees and annual fees of $14,000, may use the space, at an additional cost, for “important occasions that inspire, enchant, and exceed every expectation.” At the galas and bat mitzvahs and weekend weddings, Trump often wanders in. How could he resist a room like this? He smiles and waves. He joins groomsmen for photos. He steps onto the dance floor with the bride. Dark suit jacket, no tie, shirt unbuttoned, red MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN hat on his head. He tilts his face to the strobe lights and pumps his fists in the air. Sometimes he grabs a microphone and gives a speech. He knows what the people who show up here want.

It was in that optimistic spirit, 28 days ago, that the former president, impeached and voted out of office and impeached again, amid multiple state and federal investigations, under threat of indictment and arrest, on the verge of a congressional-committee verdict that would recommend four criminal charges to the Feds over his incitement of a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol and threatened to hang his vice-president in a failed attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election results, announced his third presidential campaign. Since then, he has barely set foot outside the perimeter of Mar-a-Lago. For 28 days, in fact, he has not left the state of Florida at all.

He is sensitive about this. He does not like what it suggests. So he does not accept the premise. “Sometimes I don’t even stay at Mar-a-Lago,” he told me. What do you mean you don’t stay there, I asked. Where do you stay? “I stay here,” he said, “but I am outside of Mar-a-Lago quite a bit. I’m always largely outside of Mar-a-Lago at meetings and various other things and events. I’m down in Miami. I go to Miami, I go to different places in Florida.”

What he means when he says “Miami” is that his SUV rolls down the driveway, past the pristine lawn set for croquet and through the Secret Service checkpoint at the gate, for the two-hour trip to another piece of Trump real estate, the Trump National in Doral, about eight miles from the airport in Miami-Dade County. There, he meets regularly with an impressive, ideologically diverse range of policy wonks, diplomats, and political theorists for conversations about the global economy and military conflicts and constitutional law and I’m kidding. He goes there to play golf. “He just goes, plays golf, comes back, and fucks off. He has retreated to the golf course and to Mar-a-Lago,” one adviser said. “His world has gotten much smaller. His world is so, so small.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-running-for-president-2024.html

I'm positive much ketchup was hurled about when he read this!

[ificandream]

14. Thanks!!

[ShazzieB]

29. Paywall. *sigh*

[Hekate]

31. Free link courtesy of a DUer on Dec 23 & again Dec 24

https://archive.ph/sb0Mp

Can’t remember who, as I rummage thru my files. But this is a brilliant article and no wonder the orange brat is pissed off.

[ShazzieB]

39. Thanks so much for this link!

It is indeed a brilliant article, and I learned a lot from it. The part about his wanting to be in the movie business and his fascination with the movie "Sunset Boulevard" was all new to me, for example.
. But this is the part that really jumped out at me:

The plan in 2016 was to prove the haters wrong by running, to poll well enough to be able to say he could have won, and to return to the fifth floor of his building where he filmed The Apprentice, his NBC reality show. But NBC killed his contract over his comments about Mexico sending rapists across the border. He no longer had a vehicle for the attention he required. He had to keep going.

I didn't know that NBC killed his contract for The Apprentice over that comment about rapists coming over the border, but it explains so much. When he lost that show, he lost a major avenue for getting his narcissistic needs met, and what was left? Running for potus, and then being potus! When he lost in 2020, he really had nothing left. This really explains a lot to me about why he became desperate and unhinged enough to go to so much trouble trying to change the outcome.

I found this article to be fascinating, and I have no trouble believing that he's as broken and pathetic as the author describes him.

[bdamomma]

37. his

brain is also very small.

[NoMoreRepugs]

10. AssHat Clowns seldom have magic acts.

[onenote]

11. Olivia Nuzzi doesn't seem too unattractive to me.

[Attilatheblond]

24. Vain & insecure, thinking image is everything, Trump disparrages women's looks constantly

He thinks that is the maximum hurt he can inflict on a woman because he is the most shallow pig in the pen and thinks we are all as insecure and hung up on image as he is. He sees women as only things and completely disregards what women do.

And that's why Ivanka can't breathe out of her nose.

[Hekate]

34. All too true

[Mr. Ected]

15. Let's hope he brings the entire Republican Party down with him

They're probably all hopeful that Trump is indicted soon so he will redirect his hate speech to the court.

[musclecar6]

16. He's

Finished. My guess is he knows it, although then he switches to fantasizing he can pull it out of the fire, which he won’t. He’ll bounce back and forth from having hope and despair. He’s gone from being a world class clown on display, to a has been that nobody gives a fuck about. Well deserved.

[paleotn]

17. The rubes have moved on I guess

[TheRealNorth]

33. I am not sure about the rubes....

But a lot of the other deplorables that knew TFG was full of shit but liked him anyway because he "owned the libs" have moved on to DeathSatan because they don't think TFG can win.

[PlanetBev]

19. What magic?

More like a spell or sorcery.

[ificandream]

21. That's a great article.

[KS Toronado]

22. He's got new people to hate now.....his campaign staff

[txwhitedove]

25. tRump became a cautionary tale. I can't wait for him to be a very tiny footnote.

[Initech]

27. What a festering piece of shit.

How does anyone still like this guy?

[rubbersole]

28. He's like a good case of the clap.

[ShazzieB]

38. His "magic" is definitely gone and he knows it.

It's easy for us to scoff at the idea that he ever had any "magic." After all, it never worked on us. But there's no denying that he had something that worked on a lot of people. He never would have gotten past the primaries, much less won the general election otherwise.

It's fun to make snarky jokes and all, but there was a time when he was attracting large crowds to his rallies, enthusiastic crowds who hung on his every word and gave him the adoration that narcissists like him crave. That adoration was like a drug for him, while it lasted. But it's been gradually drying up, and it's at the point now where even he can't avoid being aware of it. And he wants it back! He NEEDS it back. As a narcissist, he needs that adoration the way addicts need their next fix, and for him it's not just a matter of finding a dealer and some cash. There are no dealers for his drug, and he is starting to panic.

I think it was a huge shock to him when the announcement of his 2024 election bid fell so flat. Along with whatever other reasons he has for running (like trying to avoid prosecution for his crimes), I think he saw it as a pathway to more stadiums full of adoring fans and more fixes of the drug he misses so much. But, aside from whatever few diehard loyalists he has left, the country reacted to the announcement with the equivalent of a giant shrug, and I think that just about killed him (not literally, but in an emotional sense.

As much as he likes to complain about "haters," the hardest thing for a narcissist to accept is not hate, but indifference. He's getting a ton of both these days, and I think he's finding it incredibly hard to deal with and responding with narcissistic rage.

[dchill]

40. Happy New Year, Mr Trump.

It's gonna be great! 😃👍

[Blue Owl]

42. Maybe if FF45 tried to re-light the spark there would be a giant methane explosion

[Ilsa]

44. The magic is gone, only the "crazy" remains. nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

45. All he has left are his grifts and an old set of clubs.

I suspect it will be discovered that a shocking number of his cult rubes have sacrificed their entire fortunes for him, including mentions in their wills.

Countless humans learned the hard way thousands of years ago to never, never worship another human being.


KY......

[Grammy23]

46. So the old saying is true --

The emperor really is naked as a jaybird in the springtime. Some of us knew this from the git-go. Others had to get fed up with his tall tales and self aggrandizement to see the cracks developing. Finally, after he left DC, even some of his faithful began to see him in a different light. People like DeSantis have begun their rise, funneling the energy away from tRump. We knew it would happen sooner or later. Apparently tRump didn’t get the memo that the adoring masses (except for a few die hard believers) have pulled up the tent and moved the circus toward more exciting possibilities. They see a younger, better equipped candidate in DeSantis. tRump looks old, bloated and is damaged goods. He has not figured this out yet, so expect more pitiful, flaccid attempts to rebuild his brand. It won’t work but he’ll die trying.