"...Trump’s political success has stemmed in large part from his projection of dominance, and perhaps part of supporters’ willingness to cut ties to him comes from his recent behavior, which projects confusion. On Saturday, at the FIFA Club World Cup trophy ceremony, Trump seemed to miss the signal that he should leave the stage as the winning team celebrated, and had to be maneuvered behind the players.
"Yesterday he fell asleep on stage at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit. At the same event, Trump told what CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale called “an especially odd imaginary tale,” claiming that his uncle, a MIT professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had taught Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber. Trump recounted a conversation with his uncle about Kaczynski, but in fact Kaczynski didn’t go to MIT, and Trump’s uncle John died more than a decade before Kaczynski became famous, so Trump and his uncle could not have identified him as the Unabomber. Today, Trump called chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell a 'terrible Fed chair' and added: 'I was surprised he was appointed.'
"Trump was the president who appointed him..." -- Heather Cox Richardson in her "Letters from an American" Substack on Wednesday. There's no question the Epstein files case has rattled the Malignant Fascist and his MAGA cult to the core, and the Malignant Fascist's distractions don't seem to have the legs that the Epstein files case does. As more and more see the Epstein-compromised, increasingly demented, physically diminished, old orange blob behind the curtain, the illusion of strength and dominance that's been the Malignant Fascist's (incomprehensible to us) secret weapon begins to evaporate.
It's been said that democracy can die more quickly than we can imagine. So, too, can a 79-year-old authoritarian's grip on power.
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