Lois Cooke writes: I positively assume he doesn’t need the job once more. He appears to be like depressing and depleted. He solely gained in 2016 as a result of Democrats ran a lady, Clinton. Their deadly error.
He’s an outdated man — six years older than I’m, and I’m fairly lively and wholesome. I wouldn’t swap my freedom in retirement for the US presidency for quids. Statistically, he’s about to hit the massive equalising end line and he’s dealing with it with a decimated repute, huge authorized bills and no girls by his facet.
The stress he’ll face if he loses is the lack of quashing his prison convictions and pardoning his felonious mates. The stress of profitable is the exhausting and interminable line of issues he should every day oversee (even in his dictatorial and prison trend).
All in all — for a close to 80-year-old — it’s a reasonably miserable situation.
In the meantime I’ll take pleasure in my piano, strolling the canines and maintaining with the grandchildren, household and pals. Eat your coronary heart out, Donald. You possibly can have had all of it.
Peter Hannigan writes: I can simply see him wandering across the White Home saying he can really feel godhood coming upon him — similar to Caligula used to do in Rome. It didn’t finish effectively for Caligula.
Gwen Tran writes: Does Donald Trump actually need to rule? I reckon, form of. He desires to win for certain — he’s campaigning fairly laborious to attain victory once more. However to do the work required for the presidential submit?
Contemplating his billionaire backers are excessively highly effective, workaholic males, he’ll doubtless quietly outsource capabilities of his “duties” to those males to pen laws and affect coverage (home and international). They’ll doubtless be given free reign (as a result of overseeing is precise work) to consort with influential lobbyists and equally highly effective teams with controlling pursuits in industries that may doubtlessly add huge income to their already well-padded backside line.
Little question they may use their very own authorized groups to suggest adjustments to legislation, and exert their private affect to make sure their payments will move the legislative course of. Why else would Elon Musk — a man who shoots satellites into area — be so lively in campaigning if there was not the prospect of great {dollars} to his companies and energy for himself?
All of these items can occur on the similar time Trump is on one in all these seashores he retains referring to.
Dr Smithy writes: To paraphrase, these presidential pardons ain’t going to grant themselves!
Tony Cartledge writes: You may’t decide Trump’s actions such as you would a traditional individual. You need to decide his actions from the standpoint of his psychological sickness: rampant narcissism with a facet of psychopathy. He has an unreasonably excessive sense of self-importance and requires fixed, fawning admiration. He expects to be recognised as superior even with none critical achievements. And he inflates these achievements consistently. He believes he’s superior to others and appears down on others and can screw them over each time, as he’s unable to acknowledge the wants or emotions of others.
I might need believed the notion that he was stunned and unprepared to win, however not any extra. Not now that he’s had a style.
Now that he is aware of the ability of the workplace and its limitations, he’s in it for the entire shebang: authoritarian management of the nation. Concerning its limits, I heard in a latest interview along with his former chief of employees Mike Kelly that Trump was stunned that everybody, together with the army, didn’t simply merely obey his each order. Now he has legions of lackeys prepared to vary all of the legal guidelines into merely loyalty to “Carried out Previous”.
He’s gearing up for the last word present of the adoration his psychological sickness calls for: that he’s the supreme chief and everybody should fall to their knees earlier than him. Then he can write the foundations over how a lot precise work he does and the way a lot is devoted to only getting folks to like him.
I lately learn Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Strongmen: Mussolini to the Current and Trump is repeating the identical playbook of all these rulers as a result of he shares their psychological sickness. It’s a psychological black gap into which he’ll drag the entire nation in his bottomless demand for adoration and management.
And let’s not overlook that if he loses he goes to jail. He desires it actual unhealthy now.
Anita Lawrence writes: Donald Trump’s ego has all the time pushed him. His scenario is difficult by the truth that he’s a seasoned and compulsive liar who lives on the upper-end of the psychopath spectrum. Shedding will harm, however profitable would possibly simply harm extra! Residents of the US ought to be cautious what they want for.
J Lavarack writes: Whether or not he does or doesn’t, he actually doesn’t have a lot alternative now.
He’s the best entrance man for the acute proper to the extent that it actually doesn’t matter what he or his court docket followers say now. Take into account the newest rant from Tucker Carlson about “Daddy Trump” and spanking hormonal teenage daughters, which obtained a rapturous response from his viewers. Past perception, besides it actually occurred. Sanity and regular cultural values have gone proper out the window.
Arduous work? What, watching TV to gauge public opinion and enjoying golf? Nah!
Ego, self safety, emulating Hitler and being seen as a demigod are in all probability incentive sufficient to counter any ennui that may have developed.
Fez writes: Trump positively desires to be president with a view to shield himself from dealing with prison expenses. If he does win (which appears to be like doubtless — relying if his credulous base outnumber regular US voters), I think about that he can be sidelined to a ceremonial function whereas the faceless beings from Undertaking 2025 will do the precise governing. We dwell in fascinating instances…
