Apparently, nobody can stop him:
Four people were dead. The Capitol was in shambles. Several members of his team had resigned. His allies were fast abandoning him.
Naturally, President Donald Trump was livid. About being locked out of his Twitter feed, that is.
Twitter and Facebook locked Trump’s accounts on Wednesday and he had used his social channels to incite a riot of his supporters at the U.S. Capitol. Not long after, the outgoing, increasingly authoritarian Republican president grew increasingly upset about the social media giants robbing him of his online voice, according to two people familiar with the matter.
One of the sources said that since Wednesday, President Trump has specifically complained that he was trying to send a tweet during his Twitter lockout, and that he was furious that he couldn’t. The other person familiar with the situation said the president privately claimed this was another instance of Big Tech silencing conservatives and trying to help cover up the “crime” of the century that occurred during the 2020 presidential election.
The imagined “crime” here is that he decisively lost the election to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, a victory that Trump, his legal team, and swaths of the GOP have attempted, based on pure lies, for months to overturn.
Trump’s fixation on this underscores, yet again, a president hellbent on obsessing over his own petty grievances and personal desires for power and influence, even as his words and actions helped spur a widely-condemned storming of the Capitol, contributed to the Republican Party’s loss of Senate control, and already led to multiple resignations from his administration. This is all happening against a backdrop of a tanked U.S. economy and a still-raging coronavirus pandemic that Trump has continued to show no interest in helping to mitigate.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the matter and who have been in contact with Trump since Wednesday say he continues to insist he did absolutely nothing wrong, that senior officials and party leaders backing away from him are cowards, and that he also wants people to look into baseless rumors that antifa radicals infiltrated the MAGA protest and riot this week.
That is simply crazy. He seems to be so lost in his delusion that he didn’t win that he’s finally gone completely over the edge. Remember, he did this:
That morning he tweeted, “Get smart Republicans. Fight!”
Yesterday he told his crowd that he was going to lead them to the capitol:
We’re going to walk down to the Capitol. And we’re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And we’re probably not going to be cheering, so much for some of them, because you’ll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong.
And he wasn’t alone:
Speaking ahead of Trump, allies such as Rudy Giuliani and Trump’s adult sons fanned the false allegations of voter fraud. Giuliani urged the President’s supporters wage “trial by combat,” while Donald Trump Jr. railed against congressional Republicans who declined to support Trump’s attempts to overthrow the election results.”The people who did nothing to stop the steal — this gathering should send a message to them,” said the President’s eldest son.