"(T)he president barely shows up to work, ignoring the health and economic crises afflicting the.."

[steve2470]

WASHINGTON — Over the past week, President Trump posted or reposted more than 130 messages on Twitter lashing out at the results of an election he lost. He mentioned the coronavirus pandemic now reaching its darkest hours four times — and even then just to assert that he was right about the outbreak and the experts were wrong.

Moody and by accounts of his advisers sometimes depressed, the president barely shows up to work, ignoring the health and economic crises afflicting the nation and largely clearing his public schedule of meetings unrelated to his desperate bid to rewrite the election results. He has fixated on rewarding friends, purging the disloyal and punishing a growing list of perceived enemies that now includes Republican governors, his own attorney general and even Fox News.

The final days of the Trump presidency have taken on the stormy elements of a drama more common to history or literature than a modern White House. His rage and detached-from-reality refusal to concede defeat evoke images of a besieged overlord in some distant dictatorship defiantly clinging to power rather than going into exile or an erratic English monarch imposing his version of reality on his cowed court.

And while he will leave office in 46 days, the last few weeks may only foreshadow what he will be like after he departs. Mr. Trump will almost certainly try to shape the national conversation from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and his relentless campaign to discredit the election could undercut his successor, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. Although many Republicans would like to move on, he appears intent on forcing them to remain in thrall to his need for vindication and vilification even after his term expires.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/politics/trump-presidency-election-loss.html?referringSource=articleShare

I cannot WAIT until this fascist asshole is out of office. I hope he is thrown in the face of the Fascist Party (GOP) forever or whoever takes their place.

[ProfessorGAC]

1. K&R! (nt)

[dutch777]

2. Less he does as President, the safer I feel

I trust most of the bureaucrats (political appointees excluded) to just do their job and as right as they can given awful or MIA senior leadership and probably little support. They'd probably like to keep their jobs under Biden.

[CatMor]

3. He's like a little bratty child throwing temper tantrums ...

he'll be gone soon without the power.

[NCDem47]

4. This is TOTALLY what we here at DU expected him to do.

He knows. He knows hard core his goose is cooked. He can Tweet whatever, hold rallies and spew nonsense. He can fantasize about grifting a billion bucks and “owning” a network, but he knows his legacy is done and debts are due when he leaves office. PRAYING that his crazy cult takes over at some point to keep him just one step ahead.