The Great White Hope
I know why the Trumpbots love him. Just look at the world for a moment from their point of view. Or from Trump's point of view.
You are Donald Trump. In just one news cycle ...
A judge fines you $2 million & makes you admit on paper you're a fraud who steals money from little old ladies and war heroes.
This guy you fired is thinking about dissing you & spilling your secrets on national teevee. It comes out that instead of doing your job, you were concentrating on a fool's errand, trying to buy a not-for-sale island in the North Atlantic. Some government do-gooder is investigating whether or not you broke another law. You find out your own lawyer lied to you repeatedly about a woman in Kiev; yeah, your own lawyer & some third-rate grifters he tied you to could bring you down. Another one of your employees is a big fat liar. There's still fall-out from the news that another of your employees refused to stand up for you when you needed him. Another guy who reports to you sent around a memo saying you really screwed up on the job. Then some employee, who hasn't got the guts to ID himself, writes a whole book outlining what a total fuck-up you are; the book is one cheap shot after another. These are people you hired, gave them top jobs and invited them to the Christmas party, and this is the way they treat you.
At the same time, one of the only friends you have in on trial for lying for you, and your friend is likely to go down. In fact, you're on trial, too. The prosecutors are comparing you to a notorious movie Mafioso.
More than half the country hates you, and yet another billionaire is after your job.
And yet, and yet. You get up, watch a little teevee (okay, a lot of teevee). And you keep on keepin' on.
Most people would have stayed in bed if any one of the things that happened to you in just one day had happened to them. Most people would have given up. And they know it. So if more than half the country hates you, millions of people love you. Like you, they're failures, or at least they think they are. And many of them, like you, are failures because of the mistakes they've made, because of their own ignorance and incompetence, not because of some unfair disadvantage imposed upon them. You give these ne'er-do-wells hope. You're a role model. If you can get up and blast the people who would bring you down – if you can misspell their names (Melanie) & their jobs (special council) and still vindicate yourself (at least in your own mind), well, hell, maybe they too can roust themselves from the bed and go forth anew.
Reader Comments (1)
It's as though this Great White Hope having once won a round in the ring of Punch and Judy bouts actually believed he could take it to the top and survive. He's on his last legs now although you'd never know it–-perhaps HE doesn't know it. "Sir–-your nose is broken, you are bleeding profusely, and your right eye is completely shut–-time to concede, don't ya think?"
And all his people wave and shout––once more into the brink!