Emptywheel: "Groceries" and Other Secrets of Managing Donald Trump.

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https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/23/groceries-and-other-secrets-of-managing-donald-trump/

Three things happened in the last week that have befuddled a lot of observers, but which might best be understood as the kinds of developments we’ll see increasingly as the power structure around Trump grows fragile and fluid:

A positively giddy Trump welcomed Zohran Mamdani to the White House

“The White House” rolled out yet another plan to sell out Ukraine to Russia

Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she will quit in early January

All of these, in my opinion, arose out of and reflect Trump’s increasing political weakness, his separate mental and physical decline, and the fight for power that results.

Much more at link.

IMO, if congress rebels against Trump’s abandonment of Ukraine, and passes a veto proof bill providing continued aid, (Marcy thinks the votes could be there) Trump’s fate as a lame duck will be sealed.

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1. "IF"... don't hold your breath.

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2. I'm not the one holding my breath

But there are quite a few vulnerable republicans who are, and are looking for an off ramp.