Dunning, meet Kruger
The muttering grows louder that Trump will have to replace the extraordinarily repellant J.D. Vance with something more likeable -- a head cheese sculpture of Newt Gingrich, perhaps. Of course, he would have to admit he made a mistake, but that could be blamed on others -- Junior and Eric, or Sean Hannity, or all the delegates who endorsed his choice. Or maybe he wasn't thinking clearly after his near-death experience ("There was blood pouring everywhere and yet in a certain way I felt very safe because I had God on my side"). Or demons. There's a guy on LindellTV who says demons make Kamala Harris pretend to be Black so maybe they whispered "Vance" to Trump. Begone, demons!
Trump hires the best people, like all the staffers and cabinet members who shuttled in and out of the White House like figures on a German town clock. They were the best until they refused to do his bidding or otherwise annoyed him. Who now remembers Omarosa, or Rex Tillerson? Or Anthony Scaramucci, who gave his name to a risibly brief term in office (e.g., Liz Truss was prime minister for seven scaramuccis)?
No, I decided, Trump will double down on the couch humper (it may have been debunked but even Snopes can't stop the jokes). He's pathetically loyal and his book is selling like six-dollar water at an Arizona Trump rally. Trump respects money-making as a sign of brilliance. Also, the yard signs have already been printed. Logic dictates --
My fault for being so left-brained in our Moebius strip reality. Call it dementia or senility or eight-dimension chess, but Trump has never been a slave to logic. For example, last night in Atlanta it was hard to miss the many empty seats in the arena Kamala Harris filled to the rafters days earlier. Trump's explanation was to say it was Harris who faced empty seats: "The school administration stopped us from getting another five hundred, six hundred, even a thousand people in...I don't know anything about this school...I'm not sure if I'm going to be sending anybody to this school..." (He kept calling it "this school" because he couldn't remember "Georgia State University." I guess Barron will have to apply elsewhere.) Why GSU would keep people out is a question for the Q conspiracists. "If they're going to stand in the way of admitting people to our rally, just imagine what they're going to do on election day." Why would university administrators involve themselves in running elections? Is someone already planning to contest the vote in Georgia? Of course he is: "In my opinion they want us to lose. If we lose Georgia we lose the whole thing and our country goes to hell." "They" are the Republican governor Brian Kemp and Republican secretary of state Brad Raffensperger. Put away your left brain, it doesn't work here.
Trump is so proud of his brain, he actually brought it up at GSU. Pointing to his head, he said, "Did you ever see a guy in the debate? You know, they give you like two minutes to answer and you want to use up. You got so much fertility in there." He meant "fertilizer," of course.
Remember how Joe Biden spent months calling heads of state and cajoling them into meeting Putin's conditions for the prisoner swap, especially when Olaf Scholz didn't want to part with Vadim Krasikov, Putin's pet assassin? Remember how good we felt when the three Americans landed at Andrews? Remember how we laughed when Vance and other stains instantly claimed the credit for Trump? Forget it. Trump doesn't want the credit because it was the worst deal in the whole history of deals. The big winner was Vladimir Putin, who totally owned Sleepy Joe and low IQ Ka-MA-la. "We have fifty-nine hostages. I never paid anything." Except $2 million to North Korea for the "medical bills" of Otto Warmbier, who died shortly afterward. I assume Trump insisted on an itemized bill. It's probably in one of those boxes he never got around to sorting before the FBI shot their way into Motel a Lago and began trying on Melania's lingerie, or whatever the story is now.
Trump has been too busy to rage-post about the Olympics but something tells me he'll get around to it, informing all the droolers that China was the big winner and Simone Biles should be more "grateful" to him.
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