[Trump back on a stage] A Quiet Life Out of the Spotlight? Not for This Former President

By artappraiser on Sat, 02/27/2021 - 4:55pm |

Read @maggieNYT stage-setter on the return >https://t.co/qLDeRhg9k8
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) February 27, 2021

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/politics/donald-trump-cpac.html

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a reminder that there's always going to be competing news now:

Trump hid 'fraud' on inheritance for years, niece tells judge https://t.co/d93NZEG3iN
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 12:04am

and another:

Journalist Tim O'Brien, who's seen Trump's taxes, thinks Trump's accountant will now flip in D.A. inquiry https://t.co/nrQExAJBLH via @Yahoo and then turned around and deflated the value of the buildings so they could pay lower taxes on them, and there's a communication around
— JULIE M (@JulieMosquedo) February 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 12:07am

Is it, uhm, filled with candy... https://t.co/jzP3P7OOPz
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) February 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 12:35am

What do you think we missed on our Trump speech bingo card?

https://t.co/LLzk8qLEKZ
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) February 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 4:23pm

He is holding the magic wand of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North:

Good Witch of the North - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia

I wonder how he got a hold of it.

by moat on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 4:45pm

You can never be too sure of anything

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 5:00pm

ah Ed Wood, now there's someone who could really do a number with Trump and Giuliani types and their drag proclivities, and surely he would find the Roger Stone character worthy of interest, throw in the Roy Cohn factor, he'd get that too.

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 5:07pm

Interesting choice of headline by Business Insider, not known to be a librul publication:

In CPAC speech, Trump falsely claims that he could beat Democrats 'for a third time' in 2024 https://t.co/2zYCBf3OKu BusinessInsider
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) February 28, 2021

So according to Trump, Biden is a real powerhouse of a loser, caused apocalyptic damage in just 38 days!

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 5:44pm

Make America Temporarily Great Again - wish I'd noticed the fine print.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 5:54pm

Moat's predictions starting to look correct about not being able to have real Trump return again, he got only 55% of the CPAC nuts in their straw poll:

Trump's close allies run CPAC. They set it up to be one big Trump worship session. Yet even among CPAC attendees, only 55% say Trump is their first choice for 2024. The other 45% of CPAC attendees have already moved on from him. Trump's relevance is fading, even within his base.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) February 28, 2021

looking more likely to be something along the lines of DeSantis' stylings what the party is going to be if it stays together given how many local GOPs still going with Trump populism?

With 55 percent, Trump is top vote getter for 2024 GOP primary, says CPAC straw poll https://t.co/jURcKqREbj
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) February 28, 2021

To the rest of us, that says beware of being spun silly by media saturation about the ubiquity of QAnon type fans who want King Trump or nothing-

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 6:46pm

Interesting, CPAC does have standards of some sort:

White nationalist Nick Fuentes attempted to get into CPAC this afternoon, but a CPAC organizer wasn't pleased. pic.twitter.com/Phj1Fxe3UN
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) February 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 7:14pm

And with that impressive CPAC poll result of one percent, Pence reaps harvest of almost five years of putting his reputation and life at risk for Trump. Shrewd!
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) February 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 8:01pm

Dr. @MaryLTrump thinks ex-president will pretend to run again because it's the best money maker he's ever had https://t.co/zzXhy2O1HG
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 1, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 12:12am

She's right he wants their money:

I think the takeaway here is not just the direct ask but more the idea that other groups asking should * not * get money if they want it connected to Trump. Notable for a few reasons, but one of which is the RNC. https://t.co/0BkZ4uoknK
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 28, 2021

amd he wants revenge against those GOP that didn't support him

For the first hour of Trump’s speech, nervous Republicans were relieved (and a little bored)

Then came the false claims of the election being stolen and roll call of his hit list

The Civil War is uncanceled

w @maggieNYT from the big O >https://t.co/kIRXO4rAUC
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) March 1, 2021

welp.... https://t.co/a1W4Ly5qBP
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) March 1, 2021

The GOP’s Trump dilemma: he craves attention and knows, post-Twitter, the only way he can reliably get it is by targeting other Republicans
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) March 1, 2021

while even Ted Cruz sees the need to attack Dems, not GOP:

.@tedcruz told me thinks party activists will become more engaged w Biden and the Dem Congress once they see breadth of their agenda

But the Trump audience responded most to his own tease of running again, denunciation of cancel culture and whacking Fauci
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) March 1, 2021

he doesn't care about the GOP, never did, won't ever be a team player. He may thank WY or AZ GOP now for censuring his enemies and turn on them in a month about not being sufficient fans.

Also I am guessing more personal victimhood stories will be coming as court cases against him ramp up, which leaves less time for the culture wars stories that the fans love. The shower head and toilet flush and Fauci grow tiresome, needs fresh material and instead he will be focusing on personal victimhood.

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 11:36am

p.s. especially without access to big social media where he can bounce around to different things, he has to focus on only certain things when he has coverage. He's not capable of doing that, we all saw as president-when a messagre really had to be sent, it was sing songy reading off the teleprompter of a prepared script contra his instincts.

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 11:41am

Trump channels Fidel, gears up for 5-6 hour ad-lib speeches. Craziest (perhaps, who can tell?) comes at 59 minutes where he decrees Dems stole election by fixing Republican state legislatures. Biden crafty like a fox when he's not Slow Joe

Donald Trump Full Speech From CPAC 2021 | 10 News First https://t.co/GUNBclFyNf via @YouTube
— ZH_Ray (@ZH__Ray) March 1, 2021

@atrupar as usual has the rundown

"We are not starting new parties ... we have the Republican Party" -- Trump pic.twitter.com/PkumgJ6xqF
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 28, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 4:38am

Gift of Gab gifts back

Trump’s placeholder Gab account was hacked just prior to his speech today at CPAC. This is what was posted on his account: Endorsement of Gargling Piss. pic.twitter.com/1KHZ1FfqvH
— PatriotTakes (@patriottakes) March 1, 2021

Meanwhile, Kinzinger tries to move on

Trump lost the election FYI. Side note this speech is boring. We can’t win the presidency with this boring, low energy, stream of conscience, weak, has been, choke artist. Just my .02
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) February 28, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 5:23am

Mugged by reality, CPAC edition

"Trump is merely the loudest and crudest of an emerging army that calls itself conservative but has no interest in conserving the most important values of all, the constitutional guarantees of a democratic republic."https://t.co/yMk86jUTz4
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 1, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 9:11am

Mittster joke stylings:

Sen @MittRomney has a black eye and stitches, says he took a fall while visiting his son in Boston, “I took a fall, knocked me unconscious but I’m doing better.”

Joked: “I went to CPAC, that was a problem...” pic.twitter.com/6P1QWrjr9O
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) March 1, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 2:39pm

I think this is important to always keep in mind about Trumpies and other CPAC types:

pic.twitter.com/4yx5ZJrL0K
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) March 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 4:15pm

Alex Jones in leaked video: "I’m so sick of fucking Donald Trump, man. God, I’m fucking sick of him. And I’m not doing this because, like, I’m kissing his fucking ass, you know. It’s, like, I’m sick of it." https://t.co/EUgeJN4SfQ
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 3, 2021

I saw PP posted a link to this on the "Proud Boys" thread but I thought it might be good to add this version here as well

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 9:36pm

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