Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the moment is upon us. We have finally reached the end of the line. It’s time to ignore Donald Trump.
Politics
For 4 excruciatingly long years, Donald Trump has owned the daily news cycle and reveled in his ability to control the media’s coverage of him with every odd tick and divisive tweet. However, with the election of President-elect Joe Biden nearly a month behind us, Trump’s irrelevancy is growing stronger by the minute.
Trump has already checked-out of even the appearance of doing any work as the official “president.” Instead, he spends his days holed up inside The White House flipping between television stations, watching news coverage of himself, sulking that he lost, tweeting to anyone who will listen, and continuing to spin the wild conspiracy theory that he was robbed of victory — despite being unable to produce even an iota of proof to bolster his outlandish claims.
Like the rest of the lap-dog Republicans, Trump’s lawyers have coddled the petulant manchild in the Oval Office and taken his baseless claims to the highest federal courts in the land. However, because of strict laws that would hold any attorney in contempt of court for lying to a federal judge, Trump’s law team has been extremely careful not to lie for him, prompting judge after judge to either laugh or throw them out of every court they visited.
Take a look at this exchange between the Trump team and a federal judge, transcribed from a recent Pennsylvania court appearance:
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THE COURT: In your petition, which is right before me — and I read it several times — you don’t claim that any electors or the Board of the County were guilty of fraud, correct? That’s correct?
TRUMP LAWYER: Your Honor, accusing people of fraud is a pretty big step. And it is rare that I call somebody a liar, and I am not calling the Board of the [Democratic National Committee] or anybody else involved in this a liar. Everybody is coming to this with good faith. The DNC is coming with good faith. We’re all just trying to get an election done. We think these were a mistake, but we think they are a fatal mistake, and these ballots ought not be counted.
THE COURT: I understand. I am asking you a specific question, and I am looking for a specific answer. Are you claiming that there is any fraud in connection with these 592 disputed ballots?
TRUMP LAWYER: To my knowledge at present, no.
THE COURT: Are you claiming that there is any undue or improper influence upon the elector with respect to these 592 ballots?
TRUMP LAWYER: To my knowledge at present, no.
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On television, Donald Trump, his lawyers, his Fox News flunkies, and spineless Republicans in Congress (who fear ‘The Donald’ and his minions) have all screamed from the rafters that the election was rigged and that there was widespread fraud. However, every time they had their moment in court to prove their claims and potentially overturn the results, they cowered and admitted there was no fraud.
So, why is America still entertaining this sideshow?
For weeks, the television airwaves have been all abuzz with the questions: Will Trump concede? Will he voluntarily leave The White House? Will he attend the Biden inauguration?
WHO CARES??
It doesn’t matter if Trump concedes or not. He lost and him uttering those words from his own lips will not change the results.
It doesn’t matter if Trump chooses not to leave The White House by noon on January 20, 2021. The United States Secret Service is well equipped to physically remove him and his belongings whether he consents or not.
It doesn’t matter if Trump attends the Biden inauguration or not. If, for example, one child doesn’t attend the neighborhood birthday party everybody is at, the party still goes on without that child’s presence. And so will the Biden party without Trump’s presence.
The fact is, we’ve given Donald Trump far too much significance and it’s not only hurting the transition but democracy. If the media didn’t continue putting his pouting loser face on camera to whine that he should be given his way without an ounce of proof, nobody would know or care what he was thinking.
Trump has already removed himself from the presidency with his public temper tantrum. Let him. Joe Biden is, at least visually, already the new president and, unlike Trump, has provided leadership on COVID and more. So, let’s run with that.
If Donald Trump wants to rant and rave that he won (when anyone with at least 2 brain cells can clearly see that he did not), then let him have at it. He can go stand in a corner in a dark room somewhere and kick and scream all he wants that he’s the rightful winner. However, we don’t need to see it or hear about it on our TV screens.
When a child loses a baseball game, we don’t pamper him for as long as we’ve pampered and tip-toed around ‘The Donald’ and his delicate feelings.
Donald Trump lost. He’s a bonafide loser. A has-been. His presidency technically will last just a few more weeks, but Joe Biden is already our new leader. The whole world knows it and we’re all ready to move on.
It’s time to pull the plug on his sick, 4-year televised circus. FINALLY, it’s time to ignore Donald Trump and allow him to slip into eternal oblivion.
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