The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
– Henry David Thoreau
I was thinking a resignation with blanket pardons for him and his family.
Everybody but Barron. That young man is likely the only one who can carry his own weight.
And I was thinking I could write a great valedictory address for Trump Sr.
You could take the high road.
“I was wrong about the virus and I apologize to Dr. Fauci, Herman Cain and the American people.”
You could take the low road.
“Loser? I’ll tell you who’s a loser, everybody else but me.
“Dragging Mr. Pillow back home to Mar-A-Lardo with me, taking over Rush’s show if he dies soon enough.”
Gotta be honest, used to do this for a living. I’m the guy behind the guy behind the actual guy.
I’m used to writing three versions of every speech.
And I’d position the ending as a new beginning.
Keep it simple. “God bless you, America. Let the healing begin.”
(Fake News will probably report he was being sarcastic.)
Then flip everybody the bird. Two-handed. Let Trump be Trumpian.
He turns stiffly on his high heels, lumbers off, and the White House camera fades to black.
Go dark. STFU for a while.
I hear Betty Ford is nice.
Lose seventy-hundred pounds. I’m thinking Oprah might be hiring.
Get in some modicum of male shape.
Homo sapien, please.
Haircut and an actual tan. Bald is beautiful and orange is the new stupid.
Give them nothing for the first hundred days. Nothing. Nada.
Nyet. Not a tweet.
Then we bring him back but very very slowly. Maybe just a whispering campaign.
Keep it just among the white militias at first.
A Hero Will Rise. We already have the flag.
Then the evangelicals.
Like a second coming. We’ll make a new flag.
Something nuanced with a cross in the background.
American loves a story of redemption.
The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if Joe Biden wins.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/why-trump-cant-afford-to-lose
Say it’s so, Joe.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2020/11/07/joe-biden-elected-46th-president-of-the-united-states-ap-says/
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump does not concede, promises unspecified legal challenges.