Trump comes face to face with one of his greatest fears

[Zorro]

The founding falsehood that set the tone for the most mendacious presidency in U.S. history — the original Big Lie — was all about crowd size. In January 2017, President Trump and his spokesperson inflated his inaugural audience with a series of grotesque falsehoods. Trump even attacked the media for telling the truth about his paltry inaugural turnout.

So it’s fitting that as Trump’s first term — and perhaps his presidency — winds down, he is confronting the very same fear that produced that original series of foundational lies: The fear that the crowds just aren’t showing up the way they’re supposed to.

Two new reports — one from NBC News, and one from the Associated Press — shed light on an internal debate now underway among Trump advisers about how to manage both this new reality and Trump’s own emotional struggle with it.

The picture that emerges is one in which they are working to balance Trump’s insatiable need to feed off adoring crowds against the reality that people might be disinclined to brave the plague conditions that he did so much to unleash on the country. The imperatives of satiating Trump’s megalomania are bumping up against the consequences of his depravity and incompetence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/10/trump-comes-face-face-with-one-his-greatest-fears/

[Newest Reality]

1. Just where will an attention whore vampire get more blood? Anybody got a stake?

[yankee87]

2. Hoax?

You mean MAGAtards are afraid of a hoax virus? According to the stable genius 99% of people have nothing to worry about. It's just like the flu or common cold. After all, it's not like we saw a spike in Tulsa after his last disaster, oh wait we did.

[CrispyQ]

3. He's gonna jones bad once he's not president & no longer gets this kind of attention.

The lackluster crowds are already getting to him. Wait till he's out of office. Even if Putin buys the Con his own network, he won't get the kind of attention he gets now. And it is exactly this attention that ADULT Americans are sick of. Never has an American president inserted themselves into our daily lives like this one has.

[murielm99]

4. Try to minimize the way he inserts himself

into our daily lives. Watch less news. Keep telling yourself that he lies and contradicts himself every other day.

Remember that the media is having a great time because he is good for ratings. They could cut his screen time in half and still cover his foolishness.

I am trying to pay less attention to his antics and more to GOTV efforts and family.