Trump Is Real

The unreality in his mind is weird and dangerous

Trumpism is weakening, I sense it. Trump is pressuring Speaker Mike Johnson to threaten to not fund the government unless they receive “absolute assurances” about election security. By that he means make a big stink about how “undocumented immigrants” are voting and the like. Trump is stirring the pot to seed confusion about the veracity of the elections. He’s done this before, so he has practice. He wrote on Truth Social:

“If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don’t get absolute assurances on Election Security, THEY SHOULD, IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, GO FORWARD WITH A CONTINUING RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.”

This is Trump getting ready to lose the election. I was glad to hear the government is preparing for security after the election. The Department of Homeland Security took steps to protect the January 6, 2025, session of Congress that will count the electoral votes that will decide the presidency. They have put January 6, 2025, on the same security level as the Super Bowl or a major event like the U.N. General Assembly. 

Good.

Trump and the GOP are pushing courts in swing states to reject some mail-in ballots on insignificant dating technicalities, according to the Washington Post.

Trump is beginning to hint that the attempted assasination attempt, where his ear was knicked by a bullet, was “an inside job.” Previously, his supporters or surrogates would hint at the idea that the Democrats are behind this. Now he is.

One of the most outrageous things to surface in the days following the debate is that Trump continues to say he won the debate, and that all the polls say that. Even Fox, and many of his advisors say the opposite. Trump lives in an unreal universe in his mind, one in which everything he says is true. Heather Cox Richardson had a great observation today:

“All day, reporters fact checked Trump’s statements, proving them lies. But lies have never damaged him; they reinforce his dominance by forcing subordinates to agree that the person in charge gets to determine what reality is. Victims must surrender either their integrity or their ownership of their own perceptions; in either case, once they have agreed to a deliberate lie, it becomes harder to challenge later ones since that means acknowledging the other times they caved.”

His thirst for power, and now as he feels his grip loosening, his desperation to keep it, is what we have to watch carefully and guard against.

Happy Thursday, see you tomorrow.