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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 09:16 PM Nov 2020

Trump remains bunkered in the White House as the world spins on

President Donald Trump's agenda listed "no public events" on Tuesday -- the 10th time since the election that those words have appeared on his daily schedule. He has answered no questions from reporters, invited no cameras into the Oval Office and ventured no further than his namesake golf course, 25 miles from the White House in Virginia. His schedule has not included a classified intelligence briefing in more than a month ...

Trump has even canceled his plans to travel to Mar-a-Lago for Thanksgiving, administration officials told CNN. The President and first lady were scheduled to spend the holiday at their South Florida resort, but have decided to stay in Washington instead.

Even as workers dismantle and truck away the temporary metal mesh fencing that surrounded the White House on Election Day, the President remains fortified inside the building as he continues to deny losing to President-elect Joe Biden. When he looks out his north-facing windows, he can see the reviewing stand for Biden's inaugural parade -- the same one he sat in four years ago -- being re-erected on his front lawn.

Trump has mostly stopped phoning US allies, particularly as they move toward recognizing Biden's win. The last foreign leader the White House said Trump spoke with was French President Emmanuel Macron, who he dialed on October 30 after a terrorist attack in Nice. Trump has demonstrated little interest in adding more to his schedule, people familiar with the matter said, and few aides have raised the idea with him because of his dark mood and preoccupation with his loss.

He is spending mornings in the residence watching television, arriving to the Oval Office later in the afternoon and remaining into the evening. He goes back-and-forth between the office and his adjoining dining room, which is equipped with a large television and where newspapers and magazines are strewn across the table. The President has yet to comment on the deaths of the Americans, who were killed last Thursday while serving as part of a peacekeeping force in Egypt. He has not tweeted about the crash or made any other public comments about it.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/politics/trump-future-white-house/index.html

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Trump remains bunkered in the White House as the world spins on (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 OP
He won't go to Maralago leftieNanner Nov 2020 #1
Good point left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 #2
Oh sure..maybe he'll just continue a life of exile. Would certainly suit the world! Thekaspervote Nov 2020 #3
I think he is afraid Joe and Jill would start moving stuff in Skittles Nov 2020 #7
He doesn't want to leave the White House In It to Win It Nov 2020 #19
What if he pretends that he's pardoning the Rice4VP Nov 2020 #32
Possession is nine-tenths of the law in Trump's fevered brain. sop Nov 2020 #24
Fuck bdamomma Nov 2020 #4
It's starting to get a sort of "Downfall" vibe... The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2020 #5
He's scarfing Big Macs and dribbling special sauce Sugar Smack Nov 2020 #6
He looks like a petulant little child .... CatMor Nov 2020 #8
He is afraid that if he travels to Florida mshasta Nov 2020 #9
There is nowhere he can hide. There is nowhere he can flaunt. Baked Potato Nov 2020 #10
He is waiting for the Anschluss dhol82 Nov 2020 #11
He's afraid they'll change the locks if he leaves. C_U_L8R Nov 2020 #12
Looking bad constipated. Bummer city. eom sprinkleeninow Nov 2020 #13
You'd think those who voted for him would find this behavior quite unsuited to the office. Beartracks Nov 2020 #14
After 4 years of incompetence and malice from that monster, Blue_true Nov 2020 #23
Kick + Recommend Drum Nov 2020 #15
Trump is living in his own self imposed delusion of denial. joshcryer Nov 2020 #16
Hiding in his basement. Ironic, but not surprising. JDC Nov 2020 #17
Bunkered Till 1/20 colsohlibgal Nov 2020 #18
Where's Melania now? nt Grasswire2 Nov 2020 #20
Hey, cnn! It is OUR front lawn, not his! WTH is the matter with you????? niyad Nov 2020 #21
Can narcissists kill themselves. Blue_true Nov 2020 #25
All good points. But. the sheer level of his humiliation is an interesting factor. niyad Nov 2020 #26
His case will be interesting. Blue_true Nov 2020 #28
He has his walls around the WH maybe he is going to settle in like a tick... Thomas Hurt Nov 2020 #22
"...the King is in the closet, he's hiding from today..." lastlib Nov 2020 #27
Great song, great record usajumpedtheshark Nov 2020 #35
I like that he can look out the windows of the White House ... left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 #29
For a narcissist, it's even worse Withywindle Nov 2020 #31
Worse than Useless Piece of Orange SHIT. Cha Nov 2020 #30
One morning, his protection detail will find his bed empty, with no sign of the orange pus-pocket Solly Mack Nov 2020 #33
What a repulsive slug. SammyWinstonJack Nov 2020 #34

Rice4VP

(1,235 posts)
32. What if he pretends that he's pardoning the
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 03:12 AM
Nov 2020

TG turkeys and instead chops their heads off on live TV! 😫

He deserves to suffer

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
6. He's scarfing Big Macs and dribbling special sauce
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 09:25 PM
Nov 2020

All over himself, huffing French fries, fish fillets. The White House staff is lighting scented candles because the miasma is becoming thick. He's breaking wind and grunting and barking at people. The staffers are weeping in bathrooms. It's straight out of a Stephen King horror novel.

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
8. He looks like a petulant little child ....
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 09:27 PM
Nov 2020

who is sulking in the corner because he didn't get his way. Afraid to leave the White House because he thinks his belongings will be at the curb when he gets back.

mshasta

(2,108 posts)
9. He is afraid that if he travels to Florida
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 09:27 PM
Nov 2020

He will not be able to get back in the White House...he is our prisoner

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
10. There is nowhere he can hide. There is nowhere he can flaunt.
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 09:30 PM
Nov 2020

His many personalities are probably arguing nonstop with each other. Then there’s those pesky indictments coming his way.

Beartracks

(12,821 posts)
14. You'd think those who voted for him would find this behavior quite unsuited to the office.
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 09:32 PM
Nov 2020

Maybe even conclude: "You know what? He's really not up to this line of work, is he?"

They just have to step back and see.

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Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
23. After 4 years of incompetence and malice from that monster,
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 10:21 PM
Nov 2020

the people the voted for him apparently are ok with ALL of that. We work with those people and do business with them, but I don’t understand what moral compass they are aligning to.

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)
16. Trump is living in his own self imposed delusion of denial.
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 09:35 PM
Nov 2020

Every day his denial is being shed, as he watches court case after court case fail. He goes to his golf clubs to chit chat conspiracies and potential ways to hold on to the presidency, but those avenues are dwindling and unlikely.

He is a loser, and will forever be remembered as a one term loser.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
18. Bunkered Till 1/20
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 09:52 PM
Nov 2020

All relevant Authorities have indicated their intent to remove him if he refuses to budge on that date.

niyad

(113,573 posts)
21. Hey, cnn! It is OUR front lawn, not his! WTH is the matter with you?????
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 09:55 PM
Nov 2020

Frankly, I hope he is suicidally depressed.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
25. Can narcissists kill themselves.
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 10:33 PM
Nov 2020

I know about the case of Hitler, but it is murky whether he killed him self or was killed by his upper echelon, his body and that of his mistress was reportedly badly burned. Mussolini tried hiding, as did Saddam and Pol Pot. Napoleon died of natural causes in a prison-exile.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
28. His case will be interesting.
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 12:31 AM
Nov 2020

My guess is as long as he has Magats adoring him and being willing to die for him, and give him money, he will carry on. Hitler, Mussolini and evening Napoleon didn’t have that, their followers were either on the run or had turned against them. It would be interesting to see what Trump does if a sleazeball like Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Rick Scott or Tom Cotton steal his thunder with Magats and push him aside.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
22. He has his walls around the WH maybe he is going to settle in like a tick...
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 10:01 PM
Nov 2020

Looks like we are going to have to start calling it Dear Leader's Palace.

lastlib

(23,287 posts)
27. "...the King is in the closet, he's hiding from today..."
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 12:30 AM
Nov 2020


"...and his world is filled with darkness, turning gray..."

Kansas, Closet Chronicles

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
29. I like that he can look out the windows of the White House ...
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 12:38 AM
Nov 2020

And see them building the stands for Biden's inauguration.

it's like a doomed man watching the scaffolding being built for his hanging.

Withywindle

(9,988 posts)
31. For a narcissist, it's even worse
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 03:08 AM
Nov 2020

Most of them would prefer death to humiliation. They are fundamentally incapable of accepting a defeat gracefully.

This is a guy who cheats so much at golf by kicking the ball to a more favorable location, the caddies at his club nicknamed him "Pelé."

Solly Mack

(90,787 posts)
33. One morning, his protection detail will find his bed empty, with no sign of the orange pus-pocket
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 03:50 AM
Nov 2020

They will search high and low. Keeping the news from the Press while they look into every nook and cranny in and outside the White House.

Finally, because they'll have no choice, Pence will have to admit that Trump is missing.

Jokes will be made and conspiracy theories will be born. The wails of lamentation will be drowned out by the sounds of joy.

One day, not long after President Biden takes office, someone will notice a food delivery service disappearing by one of the tall shrubs near the East wing.

Secret Service rush to the area where they spot an opening in the ground. The agents climb down the attached ladder and find themselves in a tunnel.

They can hear the echo of feet and move off in direction of the sound.

The Secret Service agents come upon a most unseemly sight. A small room, the stench of farts filling the air, with a single light dangling from the ceiling, its glow smothered by the grease thickened droplets of filth floating about the stuffy room.

There, his plentiful body resting on a golden toilet, is Donald Trump. The delivery guy is placing two buckets of KFC, complete with all the trimmings, on a nearby table. A TV in the corner blares OAN.

Trump waves off the delivery guy as he sits and stares. His eyes never leave the election map displayed on the screen - a map that proves he has won a second term.

As the delivery guy hastily grabs the money off the table and bolts from the room, the agents take out their phones...


...and begin to snap photos.

The internet blows up! A mystery no one was trying to solve is solved! And the delivery guy gets his 15 minutes of fame and a lifetime of scorn and ridicule.

Trump is removed from the tunnels - but only after he is allowed to take his golden toilet with him.

It is now rumored that Trump is living in the basement of Mar-A-Lago.








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