and ranting in a state of disconnected confusion.

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At this point, he's done with the Presidency, he's going to buy into OANN and rebrand it as TrumpTV, and will still be on-air getting his narcissistic supply for years to come.

That's my theory.

Whether it ever happens will depend on the events of the next four months.

I think he would love nothing more than to pretend to be an "elder statesman" - so weird putting those words next to him - and then go around the country putting on shows with adoring idiots while not actually having to be prez. He could have his own network too.

He must be worshipped at all times.

how many Americans will make their choice for President based upon him protecting Confederate monuments, while the country is being destroyed by a virus? Of course, that is Trump's gambit; talking about anything but his failure to govern.

It will make some of those who were already certain to vote for him happy. He unlikely to gain a single vote from this. That's why his advisors want him to STFU about it.

People, even some of his supporters, will want him to do something rather than just whine about how unfair he is being treated. I’m really surprised that the whole bounty gate hasn’t blown up bigger but when some proof that someone cashed in on a dead soldier comes out, that issue will blow up too. The more isolated he becomes the crazier he will act. I haven’t seen any pics from his latest rally but sounds like his handlers jammed a crowd together right in front of him. Probably had the lights set up so all he could see from the podium was his rabid followers instead of the empty seats like in Tulsa.

I'd never see america sink this low again, since George Wallace that is. Now he's the spirit guiding king trump, queen ivanka and counsellor jared.

It covers most of the parameters for division.

A friend of mine, who is a doctor, is very conflicted about this virus thing. He thinks it's probably a hoax, but he's troubled because he keeps seeing patients who have it and they don't seem to be in on the hoax aspect. (Really. That's what he said. No, I don't go to him for medical help.)

But about the statues! He can rant about them for hours. Our Confederate heritage! (We're both in the north, of course. He grew up in Minnesota.) Those rioters! Paint on Andrew Jackson's horse! The horror!

He is deeply troubled about Trump's boorishness and Putin-love and incompetence. But yesterday he was all excited about the statues. He didn't say, "Trump is right," but he echoed all of Trump's phrases and tweets without realizing it.

I had to say, "Next week 3 million Americans will be infected with Covid-19, and Trump is quite literally doing nothing about it, and you know that is true. He's whining about statues because he wants to distract us from the dying people. This is not a president!"

He nodded and said something serious about how people should wear masks (after all, he's a doctor-- he wears one all day), and then went back to moaning about poor Stonewall Jackson.