Fat former President Trump has no campaign events scheduled as CNN reports that he’s been spending his days mostly playing golf and hosting donors at Mar-a-Lago, while over the last two weeks Joe Biden has hit nearly every battleground state. In the same period Trump went to one and held another rally in Ohio, both of which drew a shit ton of negative mainstream coverage.
Trump’s minions claimed to CNN that his schedule has been eaten up by court appearances, ones that the article pointedly notes were not mandatory for him to attend, and that he’ll start getting back on the trail soon. A parallel report by Politico this morning said that at a campaign conference call last Friday leadership acknowledged that it had been a particularly bad week between the stupid shit Trump said about cutting Social Security and admitting that he didn’t have money to pay the $464 million appeal bond in New York. That was before he said there would be “a bloodbath” if he didn’t win reelection and then admitted to Fox News’s Howie Kurtz that he was eyeing pushing for a 16 week abortion ban. Then that changed to 15 weeks two days later. And he said Jews who vote for Democrats hate their religion. Also his campaign canceled an Arizona rally to save money.
“The only person who can beat Donald Trump is Donald Trump,” former senior Trump campaign adviser David Urban told Politico. “I don’t think we’re there yet,” he added and there’s no additional context or framing for that second part. We hope it’s him trying to self-soothe and he meant more like “I’m not freaking the fuck out for my Orange Jesus yet, but I’m starting to worry.”