He’s talking about the hail mary:
At a meeting on Wednesday at the White House, President Trump had something he wanted to discuss with his advisers, many of whom have told him his chances of succeeding at changing the results of the 2020 election are thin as a reed.
He then proceeded to press them on whether Republican legislatures could pick pro-Trump electors in a handful of key states and deliver him the electoral votes he needs to change the math and give him a second term, according to people briefed on the discussion.
It was not a detailed conversation, or really a serious one, the people briefed on it said. Nor was it reflective of any obsessive desire of Mr. Trump’s to remain in the White House.
“He knows it’s over,” one adviser said. But instead of conceding, they said, he is floating one improbable scenario after another for staying in office while he contemplates his uncertain post-presidency future.
He knows it’s over so he floats the idea of having pro-Trump Republican legislators usurp the will of the people and deliver enough electoral votes to stay in office? Sure, the president is musing about what amounts to a coup attempt but it’s no big deal.
Hookay…
The president has insisted to aides that he really defeated Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Nov. 3, but it is unclear whether he actually believes it. And instead of conducting discreet requests for recounts, Mr. Trump has made a series of spurious claims, seizing on conspiracies fanned on the internet.
The latest was on Thursday, when he falsely claimed on Twitter that Dominion voting machines switched hundreds of thousands of his votes to Mr. Biden, citing a report he had seen on the fringe network OANN, something even his supporters called ridiculous and a federal agency overseeing cybersecurity disavowed in a statement.
Advisers said his efforts were in keeping with one of his favorite pastimes: creating a controversy and watching to see how it plays out.
Has anyone mentioned to him that he still has duties?
Never mind. He never paid much attention to those anyway. And if he did, it would undoubtedly make everything worse. And anyway, not having to see him or hear him these past few days has been blissful. I don’t think I fully understood how awful it was until it stopped.
But the work of government has been reduced to something of a sideshow for the president. He has not made any public appearances except for a visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day since an angry statement a week ago.
And he has not spoken about the coronavirus pandemic or mentioned it on Twitter despite the staggering growth in positive cases and the number of West Wing aides and outside advisers who have been diagnosed with the virus in the past week.
The country is in a full blown health crisis that is getting worse by the day. It it is approved, the vaccine will not be available to most of us for months. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands more preventable deaths will have happened by then. And the government is completely AWOL, led by a man-baby who won’t accept that he lost so he’s obsessively watching TV and scheming about how he can persuade people that he actually won.
I suppose it was inevitable that Donald Trump would end up killing massive numbers of people. You can’t put an imbecile like him in charge of the most powerful country on earth and have it end up otherwise. And so his legacy will be the near destruction of our democracy and a massive pile of dead bodies. Sitting atop them will be the institution of the Republican Party which helped him do this every step of the way.