Trump Is Fucked

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Trump's Political Downfall: The "Fat Elvis" Phase Begins?

Thom Hartmann
Friday, August 02, 2024 at 10:01:08a PDT



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I hear it frequently on my radio/TV program: Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump.
He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him, cutting the very prisoner deal with President Biden that Trump said a few weeks ago the Russian dictator would only do with him.


He’s gone, in the minds of many Americans, from being a danger to being merely weird. What happened?
The simple reality is that Trump has entered the Fat Elvis phase of his career.
He hasn’t grown or developed new routines; he’s just reliving his old hits every day, playing to a nostalgic and mostly elderly audience who fondly remember his glory days.
His pathetic attempt to question the racial identity of Vice President Harris was just a warmed-over version of his Obama Birther slanders; they played well back in the first decade of this century, but now they’re just old and flat.

His claim that Hispanic immigrants and asylum seekers are “taking Black jobs” is just a makeover of his 2015 coming-down-the-escalator pitch. It was new and novel then and caught the love and attention of racists all across America; now it’s just a tired retread.
His forcing Republicans in the House to vote down the border bill that Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford principally wrote just adds to the perception that he’s a rank hypocrite with little interest in actually solving America’s problems.

His newest fundraising grifts — “gold” tennis shoes, bloody-ear bobble head dolls, raising the Mar-a-Lago entrance fee for spies and hangers-on to $1,000,000 — are every bit as pathetic and sloppy as his old pitches for Trump steaks, Trump water, and his failed Trump “First Class” Airline.
His entire career in the media has been characterized by rich-frat-boy flamboyance and testosterone-driven excess, from publicly cheating on each of his three wives to bragging about leering in the dressing rooms of teen beauty pageants to his faux “successful businessman” routine on NBC. Today, though, nobody is shocked, amazed, or impressed; more Americans pity him than are in awe of his proclaimed masculinity.

The one aspect of his public persona that hasn’t much changed is his naked racism, although even that has become boring. He’s now desperately trying to slice-and-dice the American electorate so he can pit separate groups of people against each other or suck up to whatever faction he thinks might save his doomed candidacy.
He’s trying to appeal to boomers by saying he’ll repeal the income tax Reagan put on Social Security; it’s not working because boomers remember that every one of the four budgets his administration produced when he was president called for radical cuts in Social Security.

He thinks he can ingratiate himself with Jews by saying that Kamala Harris “hates Jews” when most Americans know she’s married to one. When that didn’t work, he tried sucking up to Benjamin Netanyahu and inviting him to Mar-a-Lago; most Americans realize that both men are spinning political plates in the air as fast as they can to avoid going to prison for corruption. Now he just sounds like an aging antisemite afraid of jail.

He believes young people will swoon when he says he wants to eliminate income taxes on tips, but most young workers are still old enough to remember that in 2020, as the Economic Policy Institute noted in their headline, “Trump administration finalizes regulation that will cost tipped workers more than $700 million annually.”
He thinks trash-talking women, calling them “nasty” and other epithets, will bond men to him; instead, they imagine him bursting in on their mothers, sisters, wives, or daughters in a Bergdorf-Goodman dressing room.

In each one of these efforts to either turn Americans against each other or slice off and nail down a segment of the electorate, Trump is ignoring what most citizens are fundamentally concerned about: the physical, emotional, and fiscal health of our entire country.
Nobody — outside of his Greene/Gaetz/Boebert fan club in the House — believes his promise to pardon the people who tried to beat over 140 police officers to death is righteous; it just makes him look and sound like a sleazy, washed-up, wannabee mob boss who hates cops.

The only “new” policies Fat Elvis Trump has come up with are those brought to him by billionaires dangling campaign contributions:
— He wanted TikTok banned until billionaire Jeff Yass — the largest American investor in the platform — visited him at his shabby golf motel.
— He correctly pointed out that Bitcoin is a risky commodity rather than a currency until Bitcoin aficionados and billionaires Elon Musk, Joe Lonsdale, Doug Leone, Shaun Maguire, Antonio Gracias, and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss came to his defense.

He doesn’t have any new vision for America: he just wants to be the star of his own version of The Apprentice, reliving the highlights from his glory days and, of course, keeping himself out of prison by taking control of the Department of Justice.
He oversaw the unnecessary deaths of a half-million Americans, giving America the second-worst Covid death rate in the world because of his incompetence.
He gave us the worst economy since the Republican Great Depression of the 1920s.
He nearly destroyed an international alliance of democracies that it took good men and women across dozens of nations — and two bloody world wars — a century to put together.
Fat Elvis Trump thinks he can keep spinning the old hits, but polls now show that — outside of his elderly white rally audiences — Americans have figured him out, are tired of his cons, and have moved on.

And it couldn’t happen at a better time: A new day is at hand if enough of us will simply show up and vote this November.

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Trump Took Private Jet Flight With Head Of Project 2025, New Photo Shows

Nick Visser
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Former President Donald Trump flew on a private jet with the president of the Heritage Foundation, the far-right think tank behind Project 2025, on his way to a conference the institute held in 2022, according to a new report.

The Washington Post obtained flight tracking data and a photo of Trump traveling with Kevin Roberts in April 2022. The image seems to further undercut Trump’s claims that he has “no idea” who was responsible for the controversial conservative blueprint — even though more than a hundred people who worked in his administration had a hand in producing it.
Roberts took over as president of the Heritage Foundation in 2021 and was a key architect of Project 2025, a 920-page document with policy aims that include replacing federal employees with political appointees and eliminating the Department of Education.

“They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do,” Trump said in a keynote speech at a Heritage Foundation conference after the 2022 flight.



Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and former President Donald Trump. Associated Press photos


Roberts told the Post in an interview last April that he had discussed Project 2025 with the former president as part of a briefing the Heritage Foundation offered to anyone hoping to win the White House.

“I personally have talked to President Trump about Project 2025 because my role in the project has been to make sure that all of the candidates who have responded to our offer for a briefing on Project 2025 get one from me,” Roberts told the newspaper.
Trump, for his part, has continued to deny he had any knowledge of the blueprint, and his spokesperson told the Post that Roberts never briefed him. A Heritage spokesperson told the Post that Trump seemed “uninterested” in what Roberts had to say during the flight.
Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has moved to distance himself from Project 2025 amid fierce criticism from Democrats, and the Heritage Foundation replaced the director of the project last month.

“Project 2025 has never and will never be an accurate reflection of President Trump’s policies,” the spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, told the publication. “As President Trump himself and our campaign leadership have repeatedly stated, President Trump’s 20 promises to the forgotten men and women and the [Republican Party] platform are the only policies endorsed by President Trump for a second term.”

Roberts also postponed the release of a new book this week, which includes a foreword written by Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, until after the November election.
The Democratic Party quickly pounced on the Post’s report, calling Trump a “liar” and saying the photo confirms how the former president and his running mate “are fully connected to this dangerous plan to rip away our freedoms, threaten our democracy, and take our country backward.”

“While Trump and Vance desperately try to distance themselves from their own ultra-MAGA platform, voters are learning more and more about Project 2025’s wildly unpopular proposals every day ― and are ready to reject this extreme, far-right blueprint at the ballot box in November,” Alex Floyd, the Democratic National Committee’s rapid response director, said in a statement.

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Cheeto is losing what very little he had left of his mind....

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Jeffrey Epstein’s old jet gets new life in Trump campaign | Miami Herald


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Politics Why Trump flew to campaign events on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane last weekend

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pa., on Wednesday. The Republican presidential nominee promised lower interest rates — which a president does not actually control — if he is elected. Harrison Jones USA TODAY NETWORK

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign flew in a blue Gulfstream jet formerly owned by sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, using it to travel to several campaign fundraisers over the weekend, the Miami Herald has confirmed.

Trump, enroute on his own private plane to a campaign event in Bozeman, Montana last week, unexpectedly landed in Billings because of mechanical problems, a campaign spokeswoman said. He and part of his staff then flew on a small charter to Bozeman for a rally Friday night. The next day, he switched to another larger Gulfstream with a serial number that matches a plane once owned by Epstein, his former neighbor in Palm Beach, the campaign confirmed.

“The campaign had no awareness that the charter plane had been owned by Mr. Epstein,” the spokeswoman said, adding that the charter was commissioned by a vendor that has often been used by the campaign. “We heard about the former owner through the media.”

Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019 — accused of sexually abusing more than 100 girls and young women over decades. Epstein was subsequently found dead in his Manhattan jail cell a month later. His death, which was ruled a suicide by the Manhattan medical examiner, has long been a source of conspiracy theories.

Trump’s use of the plane is likely to add to public scrutiny surrounding his relationship with Epstein, even though no evidence has surfaced that Trump was involved in Epstein’s crimes.

According to flight data, the plane is now owned by an Ontario, California company, Threshold Aviation Group, which offers private charter service. The company’s website indicates its planes are housed in a hangar in Chino, California. The Herald reached out to the company, but did not get a response.

The campaign spokeswoman confirmed that a decal with the words “Trump 2024” was placed on Epstein’s old plane for the trip. Trump’s own private plane, a 727 named “Trump Force One,” was having mechanical difficulties, which led them to land in Billings, about two hours east of Bozeman. After Bozeman, Trump used Epstein’s old plane to travel Saturday to a fundraiser in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and then to Aspen and Denver. “Trump Force One” was then able to pick Trump up in Denver. Epstein’s old plane was only used one day, the spokeswoman said.

The Aspen Daily News reported that Trump arrived in a blue Gulfstream, tail number G-550, touching down at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport around 4:45 p.m. Saturday. He was to attend a fundraiser hosted by the Trump 47 Committee, which supports Save America and the RNC, the paper reported.

That charter tail number, G-550, belongs to a plane with the same serial number as Epstein’s former Gulfstream jet. Flight Aware shows the plane had been registered in 2018 to one of Epstein’s companies based in the U.S. Virgin Islands. At that time, its tail number was JE212. It is not the plane nicknamed the “Lolita Express” which Epstein replaced around 2017. The Lolita plane has since been destroyed.

Trump was in the same social circles as Epstein, and flew on Epstein’s planes six times from 1993 to 1997, records show. But the two had a falling out over a property in Palm Beach that they had a bidding war over in 2004. There are numerous photographs of Trump and Epstein together in the 1990s, long before Epstein was arrested on solicitation charges in Palm Beach.

Although tens of thousands of pages of documents have been unsealed in various Epstein civil cases, none of the documents released to date have implicated Trump in Epstein’s trafficking crimes.

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Second Photo Alleged to Show JD Vance in Drag Posted Online
"The Vance campaign has not denied that the man in drag in a viral
photo was Donald Trump's 2024 presidential election running mate."

Full story at:
thedailybeast.com/second-photo-alleging-to-be-jd-vance-in-drag-posted-online

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