The Total Eclipse of Donald Trump
The cons will end, inevitably
Friends,
I have this recurring fantasy that Trump will disappear, forever.
Today’s total solar eclipse isn’t a perfect analogy because Trump doesn’t shine like the sun, and the moon will block the sun only temporarily today.
But for a few blissful minutes, anyone who happens to be in the path of today’s eclipse will experience an elation more intense than any other celestial experience. Stars will emerge. The universe will be visible. The Earth and all life on it will come into sharper focus. The cosmos will feel complete.
It’s only a matter of time before we experience the same exhilaration when Trump is gone.
And he will be gone. Either he’ll lose the 2024 election or he’ll be sent to jail — or both. Or he’ll win and be president for a short time before becoming so blatantly and dangerously unhinged that even Republican lawmakers demand he step down.
Eventually, of course, he will depart the celestial realm altogether, as we all will. (He’ll be 78 in June and doesn’t look like he’s in the best of shape.)
But Trump will also go into total eclipse because con artists are able to keep their cons going only if the cons get larger and more audacious. Trump’s biggest con — his 2024 presidential campaign based on his big lie about the 2020 election — is about as big as a con can get.
His smaller cons aren’t doing well. Anyone who bought into Trump Media’s initial public offering when it peaked at $79.38 a share is now 43 percent poorer. After it went public, Trump Media had to report it lost $58.2 million in 2023 on sales of just $4.1 million. This makes Trump Media almost worthless.
Trump has also been selling copies of the King James Bible for $59.99 each. He’s calling it the “God Bless the USA Bible” and including the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights (both of which are already in the public domain). Apparently, he’s got few buyers.
He’s been hawking gold (chocolate) bars, wines, superhero NFTs, and “Never Surrender” sneakers, for $399 a pair.
None of these cons will do any better than Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Plaza, Trump Marina, or the Trump Taj Mahal.
Like all fraudsters, Trump is running out of suckers.
On Saturday night, Trump convinced 117 extraordinarily wealthy people to give him $50 million at a campaign fundraiser at the Palm Beach home of billionaire investor John Paulson. They believe that if Trump becomes president again, he’ll give them another big tax cut.
But the only way to finance another big tax cut without exploding the federal budget deficit would be to cut Social Security and Medicare, which Trump now promises he won’t do. So either Trump’s billionaire backers are being conned or the American people are.
So prepare for Trump’s total eclipse.
(Oh, and if you’re planning to watch the eclipse today, please be sure to wear protective glasses — unlike Trump did in 2017.)
What a truly awful human. I have wished for years that a black hole would swallow him up and he would just be gone, never to hear his voice or see his face again. I suffer from Trump exhaustion..
It is shameful and inexplicable that Americans of any number are choosing to support and fund a con-man, a huckster, a charlatan, a racist, a demagogue, a sociopath, a liar, cheat, thief, sexual predator, a traitor, an un-American fraud.
Does anyone else remember when trump lined up some of the women who had accused Bill Clinton of sexual abuse to, presumably, discredit Hillary Clinton? Taking his vulgar behavior as a guide, temporarily, a conference and panel discussion showcasing the many people he has conned and cheated. Reading the good read by Tristan Snell, the lead attorney in the fraud case, called Taking Down Trump, those who were conned by the Trump University (gag, cough) might be one cohort. Then there are the years worth of reports about trades-people he cheated, people he sued to avoid paying them or to intimidate them into submission to whatever he wanted from them, cities he didn't pay for campaign costs to them.... just for starters.
He's a bully, a blowhard, and a coward who seduces others to do his dirty work. Shouldn't America hear from them?
And how much is trump costing American taxpayers every single day, even now? Let's see an accounting of that every day on mainstream media: Secret Service, lawyers for the government, traffic control, courtroom costs..... for starters. Let's see a big screen for THAT, all of the wasted $$$ on that foul excrescence. And add in the lost $$$ due to his misuse and abuse of everything in OUR government, including the abhorrent tax gifts to the uber-wealthy, with more to come promised by the con-man.