2024-02-05 (HE'S THE) DEVIL IN DISGUISE

TRUMP DUMP

Grown men, big strong men, never cried a day in their lives, come up to him with tears in their eyes and say, “Sir! Are you sure you’re not Elvis Presley?” As you might imagine, Trump’s absurd Truth Social post of this image under his claim that “For so many years people have been saying Elvis and I look alike” was met with risible reactions on the internet this weekend. As my friend Tom Mason said, “Trump looks like Elvis’s toilet.”

Can someone with Photoshop skills please do Hitler/Trump, Mussolini/Trump and Satan/Trump? Really, he’s begging for it here.

Remember when Trump was deposed at Mar-a-Lago last May by E. Jean Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, and he said that it’s been true pretty much forever that stars can do whatever they want to women, “unfortunately or fortunately.” Well, we learned this weekend of two more classic moments from that encounter.

When he became aware that his lawyers had agreed to provide lunch for his interrogator, he had one of his typical tantrumps, complete with throwing, yelling, and storming. Before storming out of the room, he picked up a huge pile of documents, threw it across the table, and yelled at his lawyer (the hapless Ms. Habba) for not being petty enough to deny Ms. Kaplan basic sustenance. “He was so mad at Alina,” she told George Conway during a podcast interview.

Then, at the end of the deposition, he asked to go off the record and said to Kaplan, “See you next Tuesday,” puerile code for — as it’s been described in various news reports — “an offensive word for female genitalia.” Very on brand.

If you listed every single disgusting, dishonest, and depraved thing Trump has done in the past eight years, let alone in his whole filthy life, to disqualify him from any public office, let alone the Presidency, it would fill volumes the size of the OED.

Trump says he never endorsed Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), one of the architects of the border bill that MAGAts are now against because Trump doesn’t want the problem solved before the election because he wants to be able to keep blaming Biden for it. “Just to correct the record, I did not endorse Senator Lankford, I didn’t do it. He ran and I didn’t endorse him.”

Ahem.

Of course, this preternaturally cynical tactic seems not to take into account the reality that Biden is now going to be able to blame the Republicans who vote against the plan — the plan they were instrumental in coming up with and in which they got almost everything they wanted — for the ongoingness of the border crisis. So now, every Republican who votes against it will be on the defensive about it as they try to defend their seats. Well played.

Politico reports that Biden regularly refers to Trump as a “sick fuck,” and was recently quoted as saying, “What a fucking asshole the guy is.” Just thought I’d mention it in case you missed it.

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