Donald Trump has the media guessing. As America heads towards its November election, president Trump is watching his options narrow. As he just plays more and more golf, you cannot assume that he is not doing some thinking. In fact, with the way he plays golf, he has lots of time for thinking.
It is unlikely he will do a Nixon. It is just not his style that he would want to be the second president after Richard Nixon to manipulate the succession and leave Washington in disgrace. This man has never admitted to a fault in his life.
Brazen defiance is more his style. ‘Lie, cheat and steal’ is his mantra.
After all, he never believed he would win the presidency four years ago. He was just as surprised as the rest of us. I think the better you knew the man, the less likely you thought he would win.
It is most likely that his basic problem with re-election today is the pandemic. He has yet to find a comfortable way to handle it. None of the rest of us know how to handle it but to Trump it represents a special challenge. He desperately wanted to ignore it. He knows he kicked that can down the road and now he cannot catch up with it. It is too late to look sympathetic. It is too late to take charge. He can no longer deny it.
But there is nothing like a good lie to solve Mr. Trump’s problem. He is probably scheming on how to accuse democrat candidate Joe Biden of launching covid-19 on America to help him win the presidency. That will be fun, listening to the remaining Trump supporters screaming ‘Lock him up’.
Trump’s most serious mistake is that he seems to be taking the early public opinion polls to heart. To take his loss of support as anything other than an early warning sign, is a waste of good time for scheming.
It is quite likely that the rumblings of civil war if Trump is not re-elected are something of an exaggeration. The likelihood can be measured in the average age of those overweight Trump supporters who think he can make America great again.
Maybe Trump just needs to keep thinking, out on his golf links.
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