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What Is He Even Thinking?

Posted on by Tom

Here’s the basic problem with the Trump presidency so far: Twitter. He really needs to stop talking on Twitter.

You see, every time he tweets, I lose a little bit more respect for him and inch a little bit closer to thinking, “Okay, yeah, let’s just get Mike Pence in there. We’ll go to war with Russia pretty quick but at least he’ll keep all his back room political dealings secret like the Founding Fathers intended.”

I lose even more respect for the media after every Trump tweet. I mean, it’s as if they literally cannot stop talking about his tweets. They are pathologically compelled to retweet them and then write a story about them.

I was willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt and say that he shrewdly played the part of someone who would appeal to the more moronic voters in the country. He did an admirable job of that and won the electoral college. Everyone with half a brain knows he was lying about most of his campaign promises just to get votes. That’s fine. That’s what politicians do. That doesn’t bother me.

And in the days following the election, he even acted presidential, at least to the extent that he was capable of doing so. He acted like he respected the office and would give it the attention it deserved.

Now he’s acting like it’s all a big joke. This is exactly what the left has been yelling about the whole time, and he’s giving them exactly what they want on a silver platter.

He’s tweeting about the recounts when, as president-elect, he should be ignoring it entirely.

Saying that he lost “millions” of popular votes due to fraud is just an amazing sucker-punch to American democracy. (I could possibly buy “thousands” nationwide but “millions” is just preposterous.) But now that he’s said it, “millions” of people are going to believe him, and “millions” of people now think our democracy is broken.

Thanks, Trump. (That’s the new “Thanks, Obama.”)

Then he went on to accuse Virginia of widespread voter fraud without a shred of evidence to back it up. I went to the Googles and found one story alleging that three people were charged with voter fraud in Florida and Virginia. Three people. And no fraudulent votes were cast in that case, by the way, so the system worked. There was another case where a handful of dead people were registered to vote. Registered. They didn’t actually vote. Because they’re dead.

And of course his latest tweets put the burden of proof on the media. “You guys aren’t doing your job unless you prove there was no voter fraud!” Sure, whatever, prove that negative.

[UPDATE: Oh I keep forgetting that he does retweets weird. That last one was a retweet. Still, it’s a very convincing imitation of Trump himself.]

What is the guy even thinking?

Well, clearly, he’s still driving the media narrative away from things that actually matter to him. The entire thing is a big smoke screen to cover up his massive stack of conflicts of interest that for some reason, we are only just now learning about. Or we were, until he started tweeting.

Then again it could just be a Russian hack. Hey-oh!

I’m actually not that concerned with the business conflicts. I assume that every president has them in some way or another. No president is ever going to be poor, before or after an election, that’s all I’m saying.

Technically I don’t have a problem with the recounts either. I don’t expect it to change anything, though. If it did, I think we’d have a much bigger problem in this country than four years of Donald Trump. Again I have to ask what do people think is going to happen when they find out the president they elected doesn’t take office in January? The right has been denying for weeks that they would ever stoop to protesting the results of an election, unlike those dirty liberal loons, but I bet we’d find out differently if it turns out Clinton is the one sworn in.

Tom