This seems pretty stupid, even for Donald Trump.
Imagine if McDonald’s ran an ad campaign mocking Big Mac lovers. Or if PlayStation 2 referred to gamers as losers. Or if Lysol called its customers paranoid germaphobes.
This would be brand suicide.
In the shambolic maelstrom that is Trump 2.0, the doofus-in-chief is now attacking his fans. It’s like watching a circus clown stomp his trainer.
I had to twice read Trump’s unhinged Wednesday post, which is like getting a root canal and colonoscopy at the same time. Now, I don’t know what happened when Trump spent time with the late Jeffrey Epstein. Maybe they played Monopoly and sipped Shirley Temples?
The U.S. president once called the convicted child sex trafficker a “great guy.” Ted Bundy? Oh, great guy. Now Trump 2.0 is trying to memory-hole the sealed Epstein files.
Epstein Files? There are no Epstein Files!
Here’s the thing: Trump does not grasp how much this case animates his base.
Jeffrey Epstein is to MAGA as computer chips are to Nvidia. So when the stooges and bootlickers in Trump 2.0 — Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino — tried to pull a Houdini and disappear the case, they were taken aback by the backlash.
Pam hasn’t looked this distraught since Clairol discontinued her favourite hair dye.
Hey, dummies! You can’t spend years pouring kerosene on a conspiracy theory and not expect to get first-degree burns. Didn’t you realize you were screwing around in the QAnon sandbox?
Trump is a skilled pugilist when fighting detractors.
He is out of his depth when fighting supporters.
On Wednesday, rattled by the story that refuses to go away, Trump poked his tiny fingers into his grab bag of political tricks and tried to blame “Radical Left Democrats.” OK. Sure.
The problem with trying to pin the Epstein Files on Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden’s laptop or the Easter Bunny is the timeline makes no sense. Epstein was arrested on federal charges of sex trafficking in July 2019 — when Trump was president. Epstein died in prison under mysterious circumstances a month later — when Trump was president.
I’m not saying Don Jr. strangled Epstein in his cell. I’m just saying it wasn’t Hillary Clinton or George Soros.
Perhaps realizing he can’t implicate Radical Left Democrats — even Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Joe Rogan are rejecting this insanity — Trump is now test-driving a backfiring strategy.
He is lashing out at his voters.
A couple of days ago, an exasperated Trump referred to those still asking questions about Epstein as “bad people.” He acted like reasonable concerns over a powerful pedophile ring were as inexplicable as someone asking questions about plot holes in “Scooby-Doo.”
Who cares? It’s not real!
On Wednesday, he took it further: “Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bulls—t,’ hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years … Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work … because I don’t want their support anymore!”
Ah, sir? Your disapproval rating has already cratered to a record low for any second term president in history. The only way you could be less popular is if you banned hot dogs and demanded everyone wear Che Guevara T-shirts. Maybe nothing but Trans-Siberian Orchestra in elevators?
Trump can’t afford to lose one red hat, let alone millions.
To be sure, many MAGA influencers — especially the vampires on Fox News — will try to scrub the Epstein story. If Trump called Laura Ingraham and told her to be more like Martha Stewart, she’d spend the next three years running her yap about gardening, cooking and home decor.
But this Republican champagne wing does not reflect the MAGA beer base.
The red hats are right to demand answers in the Jeffrey Epstein case. This will not go away. They demand the truth.
Donald Trump has finally met a group he can’t bully — his fans.
