The #Trump Campaign’s #PleaseShutUp Phase
That was a crazy #PublicService provided by #ElonMusk & #X.
The X Spaces interview delivered Trump w/o makeup or dress-up, talking unselfconsciously: #manic, #boastful, #untruthful, #aggrieved, #abusive, #obsessive, #random, #ignorant, #tedious, #bitchy—& ultimately, formless & endless.
- David Frum
#weird #unfit
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/trump-campaign-musk-interview/679451/
You might think a major-party presidential nominee would have other claims on his time, some sort of deadline, if only to get some sleep to ready himself for the next day’s campaigning. But no. At no point in the explosion of talk could one guess whether it would continue for another 5 mins or another 5 hours.
Presidential campaigns typically struggle against the limits of time, especially as they enter the final autumn stretch. There are only so many days, so many hours, to reach so many millions of people across this vast country. The candidate’s mins are a limited & precious resource, to be allocated by art & science to best effect. Yet #Trump seemed to have no budget for his time, no plan of campaign, no message to drive—& nothing else to do, nowhere else to go.
#Trump’s not running against President #JoeBiden anymore, yet he talked about #Biden at least as much as about his actual opponent, VP #KamalaHarris. He still lacked any clear or memorable critique of her, except for his derisive comments about her supposed inability to do the kind of interview that he, Trump, was making such a desperate hash of. Trump is the challenger & the topic should be the Biden-Harris record, but he preferred to reminisce about his own *good* old days.
There’s an old joke about the #fool at the poker table: If you don’t know who it is, it’s you.
#Musk had a rational plan for the event [is Musk ever rational these days?]. An interview w/a major-party presidential candidate drives traffic. A fawning & flattering interview might well buy favor for Musk from a possible future #Trump admin. Sure enough, Trump offered Musk a position on a hypothetical commission to purge waste from govt spending. Musk enthusiastically accepted.
…#Trump, who endlessly congratulates himself on his MIT-professor uncle’s brains, is fast arriving at the “Will you please shut up?” phase of his political descent.
Meandering, solipsistic, & crushingly boring—the interview was an awful premonition of the rest of Trump’s life should he lose again, in November: wandering the corridors of his clubs, going from table to table, buttonholing the dwindling number of guests, monologuing relentlessly until they squirm away.
@Nonilex Well I am hoping it's prison guards he bores incessantly for the rest of his miserable life.
And that he is shunned or picked on by every other prisoner for being weird, self absorbed and bitter, Secret Service nannies notwithstanding 🤡
purrrrfect
@Nonilex I think its a strong clue Trump doesnt intend to win organically. he expects to win by stealing it via lawfare and EC shenanigans. he knows they have plans setup to do that.
ultimately, imo, he works for Putin and his overall mission from him is to sabotage the US as much as he can get away with. I believe Putin hoped he could sneak Trump into office one more time, to gain a few more prizes (breaking NATO is near top; ending aid to Ukraine near top, etc.) but if cant just wreck the US
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