In these four years or so of reality television president Donald Trump taking over for Kevin Spacey as a fictional American president the best book I’ve read to date is still Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi.
In 2016..Matt Taibbi covered the election for Rolling Stone as an actual member of the campaign press corp.
He said there would be no pivot from Trump if elected and there has been no pivot. Sociopaths don’t pivot. There was never going to be a pivot towards the center. He said a Trump presidency would be both hilarious and horrifying. He said every day would be a journey of exhausting rabbit hole chasing and trolling. On pretty much every count Taibbi has been correct.
Donald Trump has turned the American presidency into a seedy reality televison show which would make both Jerry Springer and Howard Stern blush with envy. BTW…both voted for Hillary.
I begrudgingly give Trump credit for this because he like no other politician before or after tapped into this piece of American dysfunction. Whether you love or hate him you have to give Trump credit for making both Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton look equally snarkish in 2016.
This is why despite the polls I sit here with nine days to go in this 2020 campaign and still would not bet against Trump somehow pulling off another Electoral College miracle.
For certain…I think Trump will once again lose the overall popular vote. But as we learned in 2016 the overall vote count isn’t the ultimate decider in our system of choosing a president..
Are there somehow still enough ‘Trump twitter patriots’ coupled with some other fragmented demographics out there in Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylanvia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Nevada to allow Trump’s reality television presidency another four years of air time?
Let’s say Biden wins and Trump goes on to become Sean Hannity’s fulltime co-host on Fox…who kills it on the televison ratings for that time slot?
Would it be Anderson Cooper, Rachael Maddow, or Donald Trump?
I would guess Donald Trump and I’d guess he’d get quite a bit of crossover traffic from both MSNBC and CNN because sociopaths generally aren’t boring.
Great interview of Bill Gates by Steph Curry, really well done and interesting and gives you hope!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dQ6t7g5Vpo&feature=youtu.be
Love,
Jan
Thanks for sharing this. I’m going to go ahead and post it on my blog this morning before I get started with the Jeff Bridges Deer Creek Film Festival. Perfect day for it in Oklahoma with cold temps and continuous precip through the day.
How sad it is seven months into this and not once has Donald Trump been able to contain himself and talk to the American people like this in regards to Covid and the ‘new normal’ on the horizon.
The complete irony is China just posted around a positive 6% GDP growth for the third quarter while what used to be be the leader of the free thinking world is now in its third wave of the Covid pandemic with numbers spiking to new highs in forty-five states.
Unfortunately… I still think Trump has a chance. If he wins Florida and then pulls off Pennsylvania…game on.
Biden’s answer on transitioning from oil to renewables will hurt him in Pennsylvania. How much…I don’t know. If Texas is really in play it will obviously hurt him there as well. I tend to be skeptical about Texas being in play outside of the Austin/San Antonio corridor.
We know this though…..Oklahoma will not be in play. If Mike Gundy were on the ballot versus FDR or Obama neither would be competitive. BTW…Gundy cut his hair, stopped getting his picture taken with Breitbart shirts on, and has his team perhaps playing the best football in his sixteen years in Stillwater so far this season. Too bad it took a black kid named Chubba Hubbard from Canada to bribg about this maturity change. Kid had some balls doing what he did.
Love, Mike