Remember the 20-foot inflatable Trump Baby balloon that made its debut in the summer of 2020 flying over Parliament Square, which then morphed into other blimps that flew over locations in other parts of the world, including Mar-a-Lago? Well, it may be time to bring the Trump Baby back because of behavior chronicled in a forthcoming book by Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man. In the book, Politico reports, Haberman writes that periodically wads of paper had to be removed from the presidential potty and it was clogging the plumbing. Presumably this has something to do with the reports of Trump ripping up documents.
As you may recall, Trump, back in December 2019, complained about low-flow toilets, saying that it was necessary to hit the handle “10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once.”
His penchant for flushing paper that isn’t of the Charmin variety may have had something to do with that.
Clearly, this is the sort of thing that parents have to deal with, as their toddlers put things in the toilet that don’t belong there.
One would imagine that a grown man who somehow became the so-called “Leader of the Free World” (Haberman, according to Politico, has told people that Trump has stayed in contact with Kim Jong-un, leader of one of the most unfree countries on Earth) would know better than to perform such an infantile act.
Trump, of course, is obsessively repeating that the 2020 election was stolen from him, despite the fact that there is no actual evidence of this proffered.
Again, this is the sort of thing that a child does. Say a baseball goes through a window. Say there is no one in the backyard but Donny. “I didn’t do it. Someone else did.” “Who?” “Some bad guy came by. I think he may have been from outer space. Or maybe Venezuela.”
This completely unhinged thinking has affected Trump’s pals at the Republican National Committee, with the “legitimate political discourse line.” This is analogous to a child using Sharpies on the living room wall then claiming that it is “art.”
The funny thing about Mitch McConnell chastising the RNC is that he seems like Grandpa Mitch telling the kids that they’re out of line. Some of them mutter, while staring at their shoes. Others mumble while trying to say that’s not what they actually said.
And Donny comes out and proclaims, oddly, “If Mitch would have fought for the election, like the Democrats would have if in the same position, we would not be discussing any of the above today, and our Country would be STRONG and PROUD instead of weak and embarrassed.”
Where are the adults?
Let’s see: in the 2016 election Hillary Clinton received 65,853,514 votes from actual people and Trump 62,984,828. Did the Democrats claim that the election was fraudulent? Did Barack Obama say that because things were unclear he was still the president?
There were 213 Republicans who won seats in the House in the 2020 election. Were those numbers dodgy? There were 11 state gubernatorial elections on that ballot. Republicans won seven. Did they really lose?
As I’ve said in this space on more than one occasion, the grownups who are supporting this damaging childish behavior should be ashamed of themselves.
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