8/18/19: The president spends all day Sunday tweet-fuming. “Rigged, everything is rigged against me!” aides hear him say as they pass his bedroom during the day. The New York Times, Trump tweets, is pushing a “Racism Witch Hunt.” He hammers furiously at the buttons on his iPhone: “‘Journalism’ has reached a new low in the history of our Country. It is nothing more than an evil propaganda machine for the Democrat Party. The reporting is so false, biased and evil that it has now become a very sick joke... #CROOKEDJOURNALISM.” Juan Williams, at Fox News, “is nasty and wrong.” Anthony Scaramucci, the man Trump once picked to be White House Chief of Communications, is now “a highly unstable ‘nut job.’”
Trump wiles away the hours which lie heavy on his hands. He watches golf on TV, tweets, and alternates between self-pity and consoling himself with his elevated opinion of himself. “Well, I still have my award from Michigan, where I was declared the state’s ‘Man of the Year,’” he says, to no one, but himself.
The shadows lengthen. Soon it’s dark. Bedtime approaches. Trump dons his Sponge Bob pajamas, climbs into bed – alone again – and reaches for a magazine on the nightstand. We know it was left there by mistake. The man hates to read.
“Newsweek,” he mumbles. “Shouldn’t I be on the cover?”
He flips a few pages, and by pure bad luck lands on the story where reporters describe having searched all the records available. Trump, they say, has never been deemed Michigan’s “Man of the Year.”
“RIGGGGGGGGGGD!” the president explodes.
And a tough weekend comes to an end.
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Trump did get something. |
BLOGGER’S NOTE (5/8/22): In looking for further proof, I find a story quoting former GOP Congressman Dave Trott. At a dinner in 2013, for Oakland County, Michigan Republicans, he handed then-Citizen Donald a framed copy of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
He seems to believe that Trump never read it, and now uses the “award” as proof of his “Man-of-the-Year” status.
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