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Trump will end his presidency as he began it: Whining.

By George F. Will, Washington Post

As the Donald Trump parenthesis in the republic’s history closes, he is opening the sluices on his reservoir of invectives and self-pity. A practitioner of crybaby conservatism — no one, he thinks, has suffered so much since Job lost his camels and acquired boils — and ever a weakling, Trump will end his presidency as he began it: whining.

His first day cloaked in presidential dignity he spent disputing photographic proof that his inauguration crowd was substantially smaller than his immediate predecessor’s. Trump’s day of complaining continued at the CIA headquarters, at the wall commemorating those who died serving the agency. His presidency that began with a wallow in self-pity probably will end in ignominy when he slinks away pouting, trailing clouds of recriminations, without a trace of John McCain’s graciousness on election night 2008:

“Sen. [Barack] Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. I applaud him for it, and offer my sincere sympathy that his beloved grandmother did not live to see this day — though our faith assures us she is at rest in the presence of her Creator and so very proud of the good man she helped raise. . . . And my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude . . . to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Sen. Obama and my old friend, Sen. Joe Biden, should have the honor of leading us for the next four years.”

Just 12 years separate the nation from this tradition of political competition bounded by banisters of good manners. Subsequently, the Republican Party has eagerly surrendered its self-respect. And having hitched its wagon to a plummeting cinder, the party is about to have a rendezvous with a surly electorate wielding a truncheon. The party picked a bad year to invite a mugging, a year ending in zero: Approximately 80 percent of state legislative seats will be filled this year, and next year the occupants, many of them Democrats wafted into office by a wave election, will redraw congressional districts based on the 2020 Census.

After Democrats controlled the House for 40 years (1954-1994), control of it changed under four presidents (Bill Clinton in 1994, George W. Bush in 2006, Obama in 2010, Trump in 2018). Trump’s legacy might include a decade of Democratic control of the House.

Political prophecy is an optional folly, but occasionally, as now, it might be useful by encouraging eligible voters to take the trouble to participate in a historic correction. It is not yet probable, but is not highly improbable, that Joe Biden can become the first candidate in 32 years to capture more than 400 electoral votes (George H.W. Bush, 426 in 1988). He can do this by carrying some Trump 2016 states where Biden is either leading or within the margin of polling error — Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Ohio and Texas.

[washingtonpost.com]

LiterateHiker 9 Oct 21
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Awww! I wanna see him end it by jumping off Trump Tower without a parachute!

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Most offensive of all is the fact that, as more than 220,000 Americans have been dying to the Covid pandemic, Trump whines about how unfair it was that a pandemic happen to him of all people during a reelection year. [vanityfair.com] His utter lack of empathy and inability to feel for anyone other than himself will (by all rights) be his undoing.

@Paul4747

Exactly.

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Aren't you afraid you'll see so much whining, you'll get tired of so much whining? ☺

@RichCC

George Will, a conservative columnist, wrote this article. I credited him at the top of the post.

Personally, I can't stand listening or watching Trump. When I hear his voice, I turn off the radio.

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I really believe that Donald Trump, ravenous though he seems to be for attention, is about to get even more attention than he wants. Mainly, because the attention will be from the justice system instead of his toadies.

One can only hope!! There is a part of me that eagerly wants to see him squirm when he is held accountable for all the shit he has done and as his narcissism comes crashing down around him.

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Preferred exit

bobwjr Level 10 Oct 21, 2020

You would Almost hope it ends like that just to see the look on Trumps face

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You have great insight,Trump is Trump and no changing him ,bully braggart ,self pity,law breaker tax fraud etc are just some of his better points .He will blame everyone and every organization for his downfall and at the same time brag about his false achievements trying to get undeserved sympathy

@RoyMillar

George Will, a conservative columnist, wrote this article.

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