Merged So what's next for Trump?

[ZiprHead]

Trump posted this on his website:

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America

The great people of Serbia and Kosovo have overcome tremendous obstacles in their pursuit of economic normalization. The agreements my administration brokered are historic and should not be abandoned, many lives are at stake. The region is too important and the people have waited too long for this work to be cast aside. Today, my Envoy Ambassador Ric Grenell visited the Kosovo-Serbia border to highlight this important agreement. Just like we proved in the Middle East with the Abraham Accords, peace and economic normalization is possible, but it takes a sincere effort and unwavering leadership. Peace is possible, don’t give up—long term prosperity for those two nations is at stake!

Logan Act, anyone?

It was quickly removed.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Trump's media launch is now worth 10 billion bucks and hasn't done anything yet. Didn't I say that Orange Mouth would follow the money?

 

[Keith&Co.]

Next for Donny? Taekwondo, apparently.

Donald Trump awarded 9th Dan Taekwondo black belt, now outranks Chuck Norris

Donald Trump awarded 9th Dan Taekwondo black belt by World Taekwondo Headquarters (Kukkiwon) president Lee Dong-sup, putting the former U.S. President above longtime practitioner Chuck Norris.

www.mmamania.com

The Donald has been recognized as a (honorary) 9th Dan black belt in Taekwondo.
For comparison, Chuck Norris is 'merely' an 8th Dan.
Putin is 9th Dan.

 

[ZiprHead]

Cracks in the armor? A QAnon nutter may finally be getting it.

"Dooming" refers to speaking aloud the realization that the Q BS might be false.

 

[ZiprHead]

A QAnon follower wrote an open letter to Trump complaining that the movement's predictions kept turning out to be false

Donny Warren wrote about his frustration that the arrests of supposed Satan-worshipping elites on certain dates had not materialized.

news.yahoo.com

A QAnon supporter wrote an open letter to Donald Trump expressing frustration that the movement's conspiracy theories kept failing to happen.

Donny Warren's letter, which Insider reviewed, appeared on the Telegram channel of the prominent QAnon adherent Ron Watkins on Sunday. It was first reported by Newsweek.

Followers of the far-right group believe, baselessly, that a "deep state" cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles are embedded in institutions including the Democratic Party and are responsible for nefarious acts. They also believe that Trump was elected as part of a plot to secretly fight that cabal.

In his letter, Warren complained that "Red October" — one of the multiple dates on which leading QAnon proponents promised the alleged cabal members would be rounded up and arrested — had not come to pass.

"At the beginning of October, we were told of a Red October, with rumors of mass arrests across the world," Warren wrote.

"We were given hints by 'Q' experts that November was to be THE month," he wrote. "I told a few of my awake friends that either this would be the best Thanksgiving ever, or the worst. Guess which one it was?"

"Awake" is often used to describe other adherents of the QAnon movement and alludes to "The Great Awakening," an event in January when Trump was supposed to declare martial law and imprison his political enemies, which also did not happen.

"For months, I have anticipated each day with excitement knowing that I was watching my president and his crew of Patriots take back our country and our freedom. I am losing that excitement now," Warren said. "This is starting to get very old."

Warren also described the toll that his belief in the conspiracy theory was taking on his family. "They think I am a nut for believing in all this," he said.

The letter was addressed to Trump, his former national security advisor Michael Flynn, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and John F. Kennedy Jr., "if he is alive."

Hundreds of QAnon supporters gathered in Dallas earlier in November in the belief that Kennedy Jr., who died in 1999, would reappear and announce that he wasn't dead.

 

[Patooka]

‘They’re all begging me’: Trump’s 2024 veep tryouts get underway

The question of Trump’s prospective choice of running mate is surfacing with increasing frequency.

www.politico.com

It's unbelievable that people still take this cunt at his word. This is more than sunk cost fallacy, that's a wilful delusion I can understand. Trump's pretty easy to figure out; it's his supporters that fucking baffle me.

 

[lpetrich]

Trump May Self-Publish Memoir to Avoid Obama Advance Humiliation: Exec

A publishing exec thinks Trump could self-publish his presidential memoir because he doesn't want to get a smaller cash advance than Obama

• Donald Trump has yet to sign a deal with a major publisher for his presidential memoir.
• Trump might fear getting a smaller advance than Barack Obama, a publishing executive told Politico.
• As a consequence, Trump could choose to self-publish the memoir, the exec said.

...
Some publishers told The Guardian in June that many major publishing companies have concerns about the likelihood of the former president pushing false and unproven claims — such as his continual assertion that the 2020 election was stolen from him — and the possible ramifications of that.

Instead, Trump has so far released a photo book of his time in the White House, for which he contributed the captions.

Trump insists he’s writing ‘book of all books’ but big publishers unlikely to touch it | Books | The Guardian

Donald Trump has insisted he is writing “the book of all books” – even though major figures in US publishing said on Tuesday that no big house is likely to touch a memoir by the 45th president because it might stoke “a staff uprising” and it would be “too hard to get a book that was factually accurate”.

When Trump left the White House in January, the Washington Post said he made 30,573 false or misleading claims while in power. The comments by publishing insiders were reported by Politico.

Barack and Michelle Obama's books:

• 1995: Dreams from My Father
• 2006: The Audacity of Hope
• 2010: Of Thee I Sing
• 2018: Becoming (by Michelle; the rest by Barack)
• 2020: A Promised Land

The 2020 book is the first part of his Presidential memoirs.

The memoir, remaining focused on Obama's political life, begins with his early life, details his first campaigns, and stretches through most of his first term as president.[8] The book concludes with the events surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011,[12][13] ending with a meeting between Obama and the Navy SEALs who conducted the raid.[8] While the book remains focused on politics, the first 200 pages of the book, approximately, are devoted to Obama's life and career up through his time in Chicago.[14]

So BO may be working on a memoir for the rest of his Presidency.

 

[lpetrich]

 List of autobiographies by presidents of the United States
 List of memoirs by first ladies of the United States

• Martin Van Buren
• James Buchanan
• - Julia Dent Grant
• Theodore Roosevelt
• - Helen Herron Taft
• - Edith Wilson
• Calvin Coolidge
• - Eleanor Roosevelt
• Harry Truman
• Dwight Eisenhower
• Lyndon B Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson
• Richard Nixon
• Gerald Ford, Betty Ford
• Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter
• Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan
• George Bush I, Barbara Bush
• Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton
• George Bush II, Laura Bush
• Barack Obama, Michelle Obama

So every President since Harry Truman has written his memoirs.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Trump May Self-Publish Memoir to Avoid Obama Advance Humiliation: Exec

A publishing exec thinks Trump could self-publish his presidential memoir because he doesn't want to get a smaller cash advance than Obama

Maybe if he paints his advance black, it'll look bigger?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Cracks in the armor? A QAnon nutter may finally be getting it.
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"Dooming" refers to speaking aloud the realization that the Q BS might be false.

They won't give a dime more because they are upset liberals and Democrats aren't in military camps in Cuba.

This is the enemy.

 

[ZiprHead]

David Cay Johnston, investigative journalist and founder of DCReport.org, joins Yasmin Vossoughian to discuss the latest developments in Manhattan DA’s investigation into former President Donald Trump, including what he charges he is likely to face and what the timeline for the indictment could look like.
Dec. 19, 2021

 

[barbos]

ZiprHead, I am not watching it without full transcript.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Donald Trump actually writing something? He doesn't have the attention span let alone the necessary literary skills. But I think he could make serious bucks if he wrote a few hundred words every week on a topic of his choice and had it published verbatim.

 

[lpetrich]

There is a simple solution. He could hire a ghostwriter. That's how he "wrote" all his books that have been published under his name.

 

[lpetrich]

Known Trump Coauthors and Ghostwriters:

Year	Ghost	Book
1987	Tony Schwartz	The Art of the Deal
1990	Charles Leerhsen	Surviving at the Top / The Art of Survival
1997	Kate Bohner	The Art of Survival
2000	Dave Shiflett	The America We Deserve
2004	Meredith McIver	How to Get Rich
2004		The Way to the Top
2004	Meredith McIver	Think like a Billionaire
2005		The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received
2006	Robert Kiyosaki, Meredith McIver	Why We Want You to Be Rich
2006		How to Build a Fortune
2006		The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received
2006	Meredith McIver	Trump 101: The Way to Success
2007	Bill Zanker	Think Big and Kick Ass
2008	Meredith McIver	Never Give Up
2009	Meredith McIver	Think Like a Champion
2011	Wynton Hall, Peter Schweizer, Meredith McIver	Time to Get Tough
2015	Robert Kiyosaki	Midas Touch
2011	Jeffrey Robinson	Trump Tower
2015	David Fisher	Crippled America / Great Again

Ghostwriters and coauthors are known for most of Trump's books. The most prolific of them is  Meredith McIver and she likely wrote the books with no known ghostwriter credit.

She was also a speechwriter for Melania Trump, and she was involved in the plagiarism scandal of the 2016 Republican Convention, where some of MT's speech was discovered to have a remarkable resemblance to some of Michelle Obama's speeches.

 

[Swammerdami]

America is stunned on Christmas Eve as Trump calls for his supporters to commit suicide.

In what seems like a replay of the 1978  Drinking the Kool-Aid incident, Trump suggests that his supporters get "inoculated" with the Covid-19 vaccines, laced with George Soros' poisons and Bill Gates' micro-chips. Perhaps it should be no surprise that Orange Fuhrer would follow in the footsteps of Jim Jones, the earlier Messiah, but why use the enemy's poison for this special one-way trip to Heaven?

Even the QAnon wing of the QAnon-QOP-Qremlin axis doesn't seem on-board for this unusual choice of poisons:

Alleged QAnon ringleader turned Arizona congressional candidate Ron Watkins chimed in after Trump doubled down on his vaccine support ...
Watkins fired back at Trump, calling the vaccines “subscription suicide shots” while telling his loyal QAnon adherents to “choose life” rather than “comply” and get vaccinated.

The political world holds its breath. Will Republicans choose life or suicide? Has Trump been hypnotized into following Fauci the Antichrist? Who will take over the reins of the QOPAnon Empire? Sean Hannity? Alex Jones? Ghislaine Maxwell?

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

The political world holds its breath. Will Republicans choose life or suicide? Has Trump been hypnotized into following Fauci the Antichrist? Who will take over the reins of the QOPAnon Empire? Sean Hannity? Alex Jones? Ghislaine Maxwell?

Good stuff. Who's going to fall on their sword first?

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

There is a simple solution. He could hire a ghostwriter. That's how he "wrote" all his books that have been published under his name.

Hiring a legit writer removes the comedy. We want the script verbatim and unedited. The orange Fuhrer ought to off these trump wannabees and hit the keyboard in person. He'd sell a lot of copy for just the entertainment value. A real life Archie Bunker.

 

[Keith&Co.]

There is a simple solution. He could hire a ghostwriter. That's how he "wrote" all his books that have been published under his name.

Hiring a legit writer removes the comedy. We want the script verbatim and unedited. The orange Fuhrer ought to off these trump wannabees and hit the keyboard in person. He'd sell a lot of copy for just the entertainment value. A real life Archie Bunker.

So, heires a ghost and dictates a book. Book sells for $1.
But for an additional $48.99, you get the transcript of the dictation sessions.
"Was that when you told them to pay off McDougal and spike her story?"
"Yeah, a'heh, bet she was pissed when she figured it out. Or her lawyer explained it to her. Don't put that in my book."
"Okay. Not your book, no."
_____

 

[Swammerdami]

The political world holds its breath. Will Republicans choose life or suicide? Has Trump been hypnotized into following Fauci the Antichrist? Who will take over the reins of the QOPAnon Empire? Sean Hannity? Alex Jones? Ghislaine Maxwell?

Good stuff. Who's going to fall on their sword first?

Earlier I noticed a news item about a top Trumpist apologizing. DJT — who was once one of the best scientific researchers on the planet, everybody says so — is now too old to do independent research. (Unexplained is why Trump followed an imposter like Fauci when Carlson and Jones are sharing their research on YouTube.) But maybe that Trumpist fell on his sword: I don't see that news story anymore.

While searching for that news item, I came across a piece by Sarah Suckabee from a few months ago, touting "the Trump vaccine." Does that explain the confusion? Perhaps Trump isn't advocating suicide at all. Is Don Jr. selling a Trump version of the vaccine WITHOUT the microchips? Presumably jabs are available for $189.99 on the same site that sells Don Jr.'s T-shirts.