Trump looks downright ghastly in this latest photo – so much so that I’d have assumed it was photoshopped to make him look bad, if it hadn’t been posted by one of his own handlers. At this rate I’m afraid he’ll croak before we can put him on criminal trial.
They’ve stopped putting orange makeup on him, which suggests he’s too far gone cognitively to care about his appearance anymore – which is remarkable considering how much of a narcissist he is.
Much is being made of the bandage on his arm. Not sure it means anything. Old people bruise easily. But he has been photographed pretty frequently over the past year with bandages on his hands and arms in particular, which is a bit weird.
What stands out is that the Donald Trump we’ve known and hated for the past few decades would NEVER allow himself to be seen like this in public. He always did himself up ridiculously, but he did himself up. He’s either given up on life, or his brain is gone.
For those asking, no, he’s not going to magically avoid standing trial just because he’s falling apart. It doesn’t work that way. This isn’t the movies.
These latest photos suggest Trump has lost significant weight over the past few months. Could be that he’s sick, could just be that his doctors scared him into eating better. But the rapid weight loss does seem alarming within the context of his declining overall appearance.
It’s also possible that he’s not in decline and he’s simply looked this sickly and ghastly for years, and it’s why he worked so hard to cover it up with pancake makeup and such.
Again, the story seems to be that he’s no longer trying to hide how ghastly he looks. Keep in mind that he was as paranoid about his looks before he became president as he was while he was president. So the notion doesn’t jibe that he’s just relaxing because he’s left office.
Some have suggested he simply no longer has the personnel / resources to keep up his looks, now that he’s gone from the White House. But if that were the case, he’s such a narcissist, he wouldn’t be letting anyone photograph him. It’s his property, his guests, he can control that
Why are his handlers making a coordinated effort to tell the world that he looks great, while posting these ghastly photos? They’re surely performing for an audience of one. They’ll show him their tweets saying how great he looks in his current condition, so he’ll believe it.
This suggests that Trump has recently expressed some vague concern about his current condition, meaning he’s not totally gone in the head. But if his handlers think they can quell this just by showing him some tweets, it means he’s far gone enough to be highly suggestible.
Of course it would be easier to just have someone do his pancake makeup for him each morning, so he would see his old self in the mirror. Is his health too bad to tolerate the makeup? Is he too far gone cognitively to sit for the makeup session?
Really, Trump’s health only still matters because America needs the healing and teaching moment of seeing him on trial for his crimes.
One could argue that when he dies, his control over the Republican Party and Republican National Committee will end. But that’s not him. That’s his sidekicks and sycophants doing it in his name, which they’ll continue doing after his death, for as long as they can.
Trump already largely only exists in the abstract.

His base loves him, but polling says they’re moving on from the idea of him running in 2024. They just like the idea of him.

Everyone else only views him in terms of wanting him legally and financially destroyed.
The GOP will be tied to Trump’s ghost for years to come, whether he’s alive or not. That’s a losing proposition for them, considering his mere mention chases away voters in the middle. If we get him on criminal trial before he croaks, it’ll become an even worse bet for the GOP.
When the Capitol attack happened, I said Trump’s life as he knew it had just ended. Sure enough, he’s banned from Twitter, has no public presence, and looks worse in every new photo. Running for president was the #1 biggest mistake of his life. Inciting the insurrection was #2.

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These "all hope is lost" types don't belong in political activism. They belong in therapy.
These are the same fatalists who insisted Trump would magically cancel the election. Then they insisted he'd magically overturn the results in court. Then they insisted he'd just magically stay in office forever. They've been wrong at every single turn. They're wrong again.
These fatalists never even get it right when things do go wrong. They're so clinically addicted to making up unrealistic doomsday scenarios, they never see the realistic bad things that are coming. It's part of why they're so harmful.
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If you can't grasp this kind of nuance, and why a DECIDING vote against the Democrats matters but a non-deciding vote against the Democrats means nothing, then you're not cut out for politics. This isn't kindergarten. Nuance matters.
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The most "controversial" thing to be these days is a mainstream liberal, even though it's what most Americans are.
I know, because the exact same thing happened to me, for the exact same reasons.
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If you're a mainstream liberal, the right and the fringe left obsessively target you with lies, and the media then targets you for ratings. Happens every time.
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If you just say what's really going on, you're wrongly accused of being biased in favor of the left.
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