Donald Trump was once again up in the middle of the night on Thursday, coming up with schemes that might erase the shame of his 2020 election defeat.
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It’s 1:00 a.m. on a Friday, and something is keeping Donald Trump up at night.
However, it is not the affordability crisis that is such a burden on Americans or the war with Iran that was supposed to be a triumph but is turning into another Middle East quagmire. It’s also not more pleasant thoughts about ballrooms or currency with his face on it, or how he could have single-handedly won the Vietnam War if he hadn’t dodged the draft. Instead, it is his stinging defeat to Joe Biden, an unworthy opponent who handily bested him in 2020.
Trump, who is obsessed with trying to secure his place in history as the greatest president of all time, knows that this loss is a huge part of his legacy, and he would do anything to erase its stain. As a malignant narcissist, the rejection by the American people hurts even more.
And, courtesy of his weaponized Department of Justice, there is now a new straw for him to grasp.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the greatest political scams in American History, has been charged with FRAUD,” Trump wrote on his social media site after already rage-reposting a series of messages accusing Barack Obama and others of treason. “This is another Democrat Hoax, along with Act Blue, and many others.”
Ah, another hoax (of course, as we have pointed out, everything is a hoax to a clown).
What Trump is referring to is the criminal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) earlier this week. The group’s mission is to fight white supremacy, and it has therefore long been a thorn in the side of the GOP’s substantial white supremacy wing.
However, the DOJ is on the case and on Tuesday charged the SPLC with wire fraud, making false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
Acting attorney general and former Trump lawyer Todd Blanche declared that the group is “manufacturing racism to justify its existence” and points to payments made to members and leaders of some extremist groups as evidence.
However, the SPLC maintains that this is money paid to undercover informants that allow it to uncover the machinations and plans of organizations like the Ku Klux Klan.
It’s the same tactic the FBI uses to infiltrate terrorist groups, by the way, which is something we imagine the group will bring up when the case is litigated.
No matter what the outcome of that trial is, however, it has nothing to do with the beating Trump took in the 2020 election.
The president feels differently, though.
“If it is true, the 2020 Presidential Election should be permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect!” he wrote in the middle of the night.
It should go without saying that there is no mechanism to “wipe an election from the books.” If there were, the only candidate would be the 2000 election in which George W. Bush prevailed by 537 votes in Florida (and a single vote in the Supreme Court that handed him the victory) even though it was later determined that Al Gore likely would have won a full recount.
It certainly wouldn’t be an election Trump lost by more than 7 million votes.
Therefore, what the president wrote makes as much sense as saying, “I ordered a McRib without onions during a road trip to Chicago in 2023, but they gave me onions. Therefore McDonald’s should forfeit its corporate profits for that year,” or “Peter Matheny defeated me in the rigged election for prom king in 2003. But it has come to my attention that he told people there would be a party at his house if he won. That is a hoax, and his election should be wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect.”
To be honest, we almost feel sorry for this pathetic old man who is tortured by mental illness and haunted by his own shortcomings. How humiliating it must be for him to have lost to Biden.
But then we are reminded that he decided to stage a coup and undermine US democracy in response instead of seeing a shrink, which clearly would have been the better option, and that erases any pity we feel for him.
That being said, mental illness is a serious problem and we don’t want to make light of people struggling with it. Therefore, we would like to remind our readers that May is Mental Health Month, and if there is anybody in Trump’s orbit who isn’t a total sycophant, then maybe they could urge the president to give therapy a chance instead of embarrassing himself with social media rants posted past midnight.
