Former US president Donald Trump has had a busy week.
He’s been on the campaign trail for 2024 (it’s always election season in the US), going places he normally wouldn’t and largely striking an uncharacteristically conventional tone. Footage has been released of him at a fraud deposition pleading the Fifth Amendment (which prevents self-incrimination) a mere 400 times when asked about his financial affairs. He’s suing Bob Woodward. And most strikingly, some of his colleagues are idly fantasising about his death.
According to The Atlantic, several Republican party figures are thinking that Trump — the figurehead of three consecutive poor showings for the party, and displaying no signs of going quietly into retirement — will finally have his legal troubles catch up with him before 2024. And if not… well… the Trump situation could “resolve itself naturally”.
The 76-year-old famously eats like a 10-year-old who’s allowed to pick their every meal, and once argued that exercise depletes the body’s finite energy. Apparently GOP figures are relying on that to do what the January 6 hearings as yet have not:
The scenarios Republicans find themselves fantasising about range from the far-fetched to the morbid. In his recent book Thank You for Your Servitude, my colleague Mark Leibovich quoted a former Republican representative who bluntly summarised his party’s plan for dealing with Trump: ‘We’re just waiting for him to die.’ As it turns out, this is not an uncommon sentiment. In my conversations with Republicans, I heard repeatedly that the least disruptive path to getting rid of Trump, grim as it sounds, might be to wait for his expiration.
even if Trump stole a cheeseburger from a toddler in public and subsequently choked to death on it, there would still be conspiracy theories blaming the deep state for his “murder” and maga-idiots would make him a martyr
Nah – Big Mac and his Condiment Gang will be the first suspect. Fake Food.
Only the good die young. Look at Rupert.
I’m beginning to think Rupert’s already been enbalmed and preserved. He’d have enough filthy lucre to buy healthy replacement parts, when the old vital organs are cactus. The old Queen mother was preserved by pickling in Gin and Tonic and never working. I wonder what old crinkle cut guzzles?
Don’t know…………
………but I reckon it is toxic and probably glows in the dark.
I suspect that even if Trump was to drop off the perch, there’d still be ‘patriots’ who would vote for his dead body.
Just resting …
The parrots just resting that’s how he sleeps.
The parrot would make a better President – except for certain well known Australian parrots
Maybe the could hang it outside of their parliament to prove he is most definitely dead as the dodo he’s always been?
Isn’t that weird.. I never thought I would have anything in common with the US Republicans but here we are. I also used to fantasise about a premature end for John Howard, then Tony Abbott, then Malcolm Turnbull and of course, the unforgettable Scott Morrison. Happily, elections eventually intervened or LNP members did instead, with metaphorical daggers drawn. Sigh. All things pass, which might offer some hope for the red side of the house in Washington.
Unlike in the UK and Oz, red is the colour of the right, i.e. the Republicans, in USA.
That’s right!
Yes but it was certainly not always the case. They became the party of racism when Lyndon Johnson signed the civil rights laws, such was the venality of the leaders of what was formerly the party of progess.
Is that realy the origin of it? I’ve always wondered, since red is internationally the colour of the left.
Well they weren’t going to choose pink and certainly not yellow. Also green, whilst appropriate, certainly wouldn’t be the colour de jour. 😉
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-were-blue-and-democrats-were-red-104176297/
It’s quite recent. As late as 1976, NBC TV was using red for the Democrats and blue for Republicans.
It was only in 2000 that all major news networks adopted the same colour scheme. R = Republican = Red
Aren’t we all?