Even at this late hour, Trump is delusional about his election loss, or he is still in deep denial, or some combination thereof. He is “still, and I think it’s important to say, according to people I’ve spoke to, still telling people that he won,” Maggie Haberman reported on “Reliable Sources” Sunday morning. “You know, he’s still maintaining this. So, the idea that he has accepted the loss, he is not there yet, if he is ever going to get there.”
Trump’s inability to face the truth of his loss to Biden might explain why he has barely faced reporters at all in the closing weeks of his presidency. Even more remarkably, he rarely ever called into his favorite TV shows. Aside from a couple of chats with Maria Bartiromo and Brian Kilmeade and some WH-produced videos, he’s been invisible.
“I think the feeling is, if he goes out and talk more, he is simply going to add fuel to the fire,” Haberman said. “That’s part of why we are not hearing him, as people are afraid of what he will say — people meaning his advisers — what he will say off the cuff in an interview.”
A farewell address?
I’m not raising these questions because I “want” to hear from Trump, per se. I’m raising the Q’s because what leaders don’t say is often more revealing than what they do say. Trump is scrapping norms all the way until the very last minute of his presidency, by getting out of town before Biden takes the oath…
Pence filling in as prez?
Pence — who, in an alt-history of the Trump age, would have become president had Trump been convicted by the Senate or deemed unfit by the cabinet — landed back in DC Sunday night after his…
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