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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
leftieNanner
(15,150 posts)Because he doesn't want the club members to see him as a loser.
Which he is!
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,794 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)In It to Win It
(8,283 posts)because he's afraid they won't let him back in
Rice4VP
(1,235 posts)TG turkeys and instead chops their heads off on live TV! 😫
He deserves to suffer
sop
(10,253 posts)bdamomma
(63,922 posts)just go away, huh? you have caused so much damage and deaths.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,857 posts)Crazy loser in a bunker and all.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)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)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)He will not be able to get back in the White House...he is our prisoner
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)His many personalities are probably arguing nonstop with each other. Then theres those pesky indictments coming his way.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Which isn't such a bad idea
sprinkleeninow
(20,255 posts)Beartracks
(12,821 posts)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)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 dont understand what moral compass they are aligning to.
Drum
(9,197 posts)Ive seen, here at DU, updates on his schedule: its been only rallies or nada
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)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.
JDC
(10,133 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)All relevant Authorities have indicated their intent to remove him if he refuses to budge on that date.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)niyad
(113,573 posts)Frankly, I hope he is suicidally depressed.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)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.
niyad
(113,573 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)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 didnt 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)Looks like we are going to have to start calling it Dear Leader's Palace.
lastlib
(23,287 posts)Kansas, Closet Chronicles
usajumpedtheshark
(672 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)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)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."
Cha
(297,675 posts)his freaking legacy.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)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.