With 10 days remaining in his presidency, Trump has become the political equivalent of a balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade flying high down New York’s Sixth Avenue, only to be punctured, twist in the wind and deflate as it rounds the corner to the parade’s endpoint at Herald Square.
That is really a perfect metaphor: Trump as the huge gaseous balloon, punctured and deflated. I
n fact, this metaphor is more than a metaphor. It actually happened. Just as the insurrectionist Trump supporters may have punctured Donald Trump’s post-presidency, a Trump supporter once literally slashed the Trump balloon:
A GoFundMe page organized by Hutchinson asks for money for restitution for the balloon, saying he was charged with “felony criminal mischief after deflation of the disrespectful baby trump balloon. Hoyt made sure our beloved president didn’t have to see this disrespectful balloon on the streets of Ttown today!!”
In 14 hours, it had raised more than $16,000, surpassing its goal of $6,000.
After he was released on bond, Hutchinson posted another Facebook video, with the game playing on a TV behind him as people cheered and laughed.
“Some liberals tried to come to my hometown and start some trouble. That ain’t happening,” Hutchinson said in that video. “I did get arrested. I got charged. That’s all right. I’d do it again given the opportunity.”
It happened in England too. Trump supporters everywhere were running up and violently stabbing those Trump balloons, apparently having no idea how weird that was.
They certainly punctured his balloon last Wednesday with their putsch. We’ll have to see if they finally killed off Trumpism.