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In reply to the discussion: Why is Trump going back to DC? Should we be worried? [View all]highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)Mar-a-Lago has always been his own little kingdom, and according to what I've read, he even liked the club members to call him King.
Now the "king" is a loser, a one-term president who lost to the man he called a terrible candidate, and no matter how much ranting Trump does about the election having been rigged and his having really won in a landslide, he knows that his Mar-a-Lago guests tonight know that's BS.
So he wouldn't be able to look at any of them without wondering if they're laughing at him behind his back -- or maybe right in front of him. At the party tonight he'd be wondering if every laugh he heard when he hadn't heard or seen what they were laughing at was really at his expense.
He'd be wondering if they were already planning to try to curry favor with Biden.
He'd be wondering how many might stop paying to be members of his club.
Add to that his unhappiness with Melania's renovations, which means he wouldn't even be able to retreat to his own residence there to sulk without seeing things that infuriate him.
So he has no reason to stay, and every reason to want to return to the White House to remind himself, everywhere he turns, that he's still president for a few weeks, with people around him whose loyalty he can almost trust (to the extent he trusts anyone) because they're so closely linked to him they're desperate for him to stay in power and they'll echo every lie he tells about the election.