Love this OP😀

I can’t seem to enjoy the trial - too much past disappointment and dread attached - but breakfast? Happiness guaranteed.

He’s going down in orange flames.

but I saw an artist’s depiction of Cheeto Benito leering evilly at the prospective jurors. That’s what innocent people do, right?

After all this time, I don't get how people can talk about him and tune into him day after day after day.

I have filters on his name and add more as nicknames morph around. I just . . . don't want to hear about him ever. He's a known thing. I already know I'm never voting for him. There hasn't been anything said about him - or will be said - that hasn't been said a billion times.

It's so tedious.

I get this is personal preference. It's contemporary politics, people are interested.

But the amount of mental real estate he occupies is baffling to me. How are people not tired of talking about him all the time by now? I'm just waiting to see a headline of interest. A conviction or he keels over. Sure, that will be interesting. But day-to-day talking about him has sounded exhausting to me for years at this point.

I can't stand him, but I find him fascinating, in spite of myself. Not fascinating like being drawn to him, but fascinating because he's such a bizarre specimen. I am fascinated by human behavior in general, especially the abnormal kind, and the weirder someone is, the more curious I am about what makes them tick. Trump is the weirdest of the weird!

Once he actually became president (which I initially never expected to happen), everything he said and did took on greater and greater significance, because of how it affected this country and the whole world. I read Mary Trump's book, which explained a lot of things about him, and I read a lot of the stuff that various mental health professionals were writing about him, and the more familiar I because with the various personality disorders that he exhibits all the signs of, the more I wanted to learn.

While he was in the White House, trying to figure him out was one of the ways I coped with the constant irritation, worry, and fear of what he might do next. Once Biden was elected and Trump finally, grudgingly, left for Florida, I heaved a sigh of relief and paid a lot less attention to him for a while, until he announced he was going to run again. Then Jack Smith came on board, bringing renewed hope with him, and I got pulled back into the melodrama.

Would I be better off ignoring him? I have no idea, but I don't see that happening any time soon. It's almost involuntary for me at this point. All I can do is ride this thing out and see what happens. In the meantime, I completely understand why some would rather think about him as little as possible. It doesn't work that way for me, but we're all different.

and then I hope to never hear his name again. I hope to at least live long enough to go a whole day without having to worry about what he is doing/will do to the country my child and grandchildren (and the rest of us) live in.