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A fter this weeks set of briefings at the White House, the Donald Trump presidency looks like it may end not with a bang, but with a whimper. First Chris Wallace from Fox and then Jonathan Swan from Axios eviscerated Trump in interviews that not only exposed how unprepared Trump is for the long-interview format, but how unfamiliar and unrelatable he remains to facts.
He literally does not appear to understand them.
Lately he can barely muster the get-up-and-go to turn the page on the briefing notes that he pretty obviously hasnt looked at before lumbering to the podium. Instead of selling his version of reality with a hucksters showmanship, hes like a chagrined schoolboy trying to fib his way through the report on a book he didnt read.
Hes losing. He knows it. And in his mortal terror, the only place where he can still muster bravado is Twitter. But Trump isnt showing much energy any more in public. When NPRs Tamara Keith asked him last week why he had canceled a Tuesday meeting with pharmaceutical representatives Trump seemed to be unaware he had done so. He said the meeting wasnt set in stone and hed meet with them the following day. But that was impossible because he was heading out of town. This wasnt a gotcha question. It was the sort of basic question about scheduling that could be dealt with by anyone who is engaged in their own work. But Trump couldnt handle it.
Trumps desire to act as his own press secretary, his inability to understand facts or cobble together a coherent policy on any issue, and his penchant for surrounding himself with a combination of young, eager sycophants and incompetent aging sycophants has sapped him of his strength.
How fitting that his final weeks as president have seen the emergence of Low Energy Trump.
https://thebulwark.com/low-energy-trump/
Glamrock
(11,794 posts)constantly telling yourself what a fantastic job you are doing while reality is constantly trying to get into that bubble to tell you that you are the worst that ever held the position.
dubyadiprecession
(5,706 posts)Or was that Quadafi?
At any rate his two son qusay (Don jr.) and Uday (Eric) will have flee from to safe house, to avoid prison.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)He was completely alone. No aides, no one. Literally shuffling across the tarmac. And that self clapping is just creepy. Hes copying the crowd like my one year old grandchild copies my clapping on FaceTime.
Talk about low energy. Pathetic.
Cha
(297,123 posts)his way through not even 1/2 assed attempts to give a shit about anything but himself.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Pre-dementia, congestive heart failure , mini strokes , and neurological conditions? He isn't healthy at all , and getting worse every day.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)While there, he plans visit his Yo Semite relatives and drink covfefe.
The dudes a disaster.
-Laelth