The Toxic Waste of Trump Pollutes the GOP
Last night at a major GOP donor conference, Trump was in fine form (for him), unleashing attacks on everyone who have not continued to give him full-throated support. He attacked, by name, everyone who supported the Constitution by certifying the election for Biden. He attacked all of his nemeses including Nancy Pelosi, “Barack Hussein Obama”, Anthony Fauci, and Brian Kemp of Georgia, the governor who refused to buckle to Trump’s demands that he throw his career out the window by illegally throwing the election to him. But he saved his juiciest insults for Mitch McConnell calling him a “dumb son of a bitch” and a “stone cold loser.” He also repeated all the same lies he’s told countless times, even attacking Mark Zuckerberg directly claiming that he spent $500 million on a “lockbox” that delivered every vote for “Saintly Joe Biden.” He did praise a few, like Jim Jordan and the January 6 protestors, while lamely trying to distance himself from those who sacked the Capitol (even though he incited them to do so).
As he rails against all of his enemies, the GOP continues to struggle for its own identity and direction. Even this weekend when donors gathered at the nearby Four Seasons, Trump was holding a competing “investor” conference at Mar a Lago for his big donors. And to get face to face with him, the donors attending the Four Seasons conference had to trek to Trump’s property and pay his club for the privilege. This weekend was symbolic of the turmoil that is tearing the GOP apart. Even as his former staffers, including Mark Meadows and career grave robber, Stephen Miller form their own PACs and political operations. While they all want the enthusiasm for Trump among the faithful, they don’t want Trump himself. He’s insulted and pissed off all of the establishment Republicans, and has frozen dozens of 2022 and 2024 campaigns, especially for the GOP nomination for president next time around.
As Trump continues his multi-hundred million dollar grift, he’s unforgiving of what he perceives as disloyalty, and future candidates are lined up at the gates of Mar a Lago seeking the blessing of His Orangeness. Not doing so will draw his wrath and most certainly a primary opponent. He is desperately clinging to his control of the GOP, even as many maneuver to wrest that control from his iron grip. In his wake he leaves nothing but toxic waste and destruction.
You have to wonder why it takes some people so long to figure out that the Party of Trump is for the benefit of Trump and nobody else.
I suppose they all imagine they are part of something magnificent and beautiful as the proper Ruling Class. It never ceases to amaze how easy it is for Trump to convince them of that while they always miss the reality of how expendable Trump considers them.
1As long as Trump is alive he will remain the greatest threat to democracy and unity.
2I’d like to know the name of the donors and their companies.
3Was that Four Seasons Total Landscaping?
4Alan @1, I think it’s simpler than that—they all just want a piece of the grift that keeps on giving, if your face is orange anyway.
Saw a pic this morning on one of the news sites where it looked like he’d slathered on extra orange. Going for the creamsicle look around the edges.
5It was the four seasons landscaping Florida branch.
6Let’s not forget that trumpf’s followers are members of his cult and therefore don’t care if he’s a grifter or a murderer. And his cult still has the majority of the qgop, therefore the donors will be attracted to them. Probably many if not most donors are members of said cult, too. All of them get turned on by his name calling.
Too bad moscow mitch doesn’t have the balls to stand up for himself. Other than his comments the night of Jan 6, he’s avoided saying anything that the cult will be offended by, and trumpf knows it.
I cannot wait until this a**hat is on the dust heap of history.
7This isn’t going to end until either Trump is in prison or he’s dead and buried in an unmarked grave.
8“Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake.”
–Napoleon Bonaparte
It’s OK to laugh at them and help it along, however. Trump loves chaos. If chaos results from Republican efforts to keep Trump happy, I’m OK with that.
9Thank you, Papa @8. It’s the only way the country will be rid of that parasite and his nest of larva!
10The real reason the meeting was in Florida and close to the former guy’s home?
11His plane is broken and can’t be flown. Very sad.
The meeting was held in the South because of their heritage and never ending hope:
Yee haw!
12The Trump’s gonna rise agin’!
Slightly off-topic: Just how scummy do you have to be, to have T**** refuse to meet with you? (Link is to the text-only edition of CNN on-line)
http://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_731de2ccfe649fcd306e6517a5151b73
We’re going to have to define a new unit of measurement: a gaetz, the amount of disgusting attributes and actions that makes even a T**** too disgusted to be associated with you. All others will be measured in micro- or nano-gaetzs.
13No doubt he deserves the Mussolini treatment. The sooner the better!
14’can’t wait!
I don’t often agree with Trump.
But he was right: Mitch McConnell is a son of a bitch.
15Surly Prof 13, how about a remake of that old pic renamed,
16“Gaetz Who’s Coming to Dinner?” to ….. (fill in your own metaphor)
How do we know whether or not this is just an orchestrated ruse to make people think there is a rift in the GOP? Give their voters a choice between a pro Trump faction and an “anti-Trump” faction to keep people from drifting away from the party. Then when the elections happen, they will let buy guns be buy guns and coalesce around as united party.
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