Daily Beast reports that the soon-to-be-former president thinks he can still keep everyone’s attention focused on him. Sources say he is already considering ways to keep alive talk of a 2024 presidential run, including by scheduling a 2024-related event during inauguration week, and possibly on Inauguration Day.
Is this guy needy or what?
According to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, the president has privately bragged that he’d still remain in the spotlight, even if Biden is in the Oval Office, in part because the news media will keep regularly covering him since—as Trump has assessed—he gets the news outlets ratings and those same outlets find Biden “boring.”
If you haven’t noticed, Trump means to sabotage and undermine the incoming administration:
Trump’s refusal to concede has been supplemented by an attempt to make it harder for Biden to reverse his policy achievements. Indeed, even before Election Day 2020, various Trump officials working in the administration were charting paths forward to make it harder for Biden to reenter the Iran nuclear agreement.
The official position of the White House, Trump campaign, and large swaths of the Republican Party’s centers of power is, however, that Trump won—and they’ve dedicated substantial resources and money to propping up this alternate reality. And they are doing this—and raising large sums of money for it—even as the vast majority of these senior officials know that the president’s legal blitz, fronted by Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, is doomed and fueled by conspiracy theory.
“Mr. Trump’s reality-denial is not just classless and inflammatory; his childishness may also make it harder for the new administration to hit the ground running in January,” the Washington Post’s Editorial Board wrote within a week of the election.
Classless, childish, he means to trash the place on his way out:
Susie Madrak tweets, “Remember when he said wind power was awful because it killed birds?”
Too bad Warren Zevon is no longer around to tweak Mr. Bad Example.