Whatever He Says Thursday, It's Bullshit

Trump got the whole internet in an uproar yesterday by teasing a mysterious Oval Office press conference for Thursday. The rumor mill went wild: apparently he’s going to “declassify” information that finally proves his six-year quest to convince the American people of the great lie — that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Word is he also plans to declare that Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia are “illegitimate.”

Let’s be very clear about something: this is complete and total horseshit.

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Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris because he was a shitty president. He wrecked the economy. He got people killed. He unleashed a pandemic across this country. He was corrupt as hell, and we were all sick of his shit. That’s it. That’s the whole story.

And yes — he came back into power four years later because people were mad at the Democratic Party. Mad about the economy, mad about inflation, mad about how Joe Biden’s aging was handled. I accept that. I’ve never pretended otherwise.

But you have to be a special kind of stupid to believe that Democrats were capable of rigging the election in 2020 and somehow incapable of rigging it in 2024. You have to be a special kind of stupid to think we could pull off stealing an election across fifty states — leaving basically no evidence, because there is no evidence — but we can’t manage to get a damn thing we actually want done in Washington.

It’s the perfect distillation of what Trump’s second term has become, of what the Republican Party and the MAGA movement have become: a party fueled purely by grievance.

Donald Trump is not serving as president on behalf of the American people. If he were, he’d be spending his time helping you afford your grocery bill. Helping you buy a house. Helping you take a vacation — the things that make up the core of the American dream. Not waging stupid wars so he can manipulate markets and profiteer off them. Not stealing billions from the American people. And certainly not lingering on an election from 2020 that he lost fairly and that has been litigated to death. He lost every single court case he brought. Every one.

The truth is that Donald Trump should be in prison right now for attempting to incite an insurrection and overthrow our elections. But we don’t live in a country where somebody as rich and powerful as Donald Trump ever gets held accountable for his crimes. If he’d been held accountable at any point in his life, he never would have made it to the presidency in 2016.

No — this is a revenge tour. The only thing Trump cares about in his second term is getting even with every single person he believes ever wronged him. That’s why he’s going after Jimmy Kimmel and trying to get him pulled off the air. That’s why he’s trying to lock up Don Lemon for reporting something he didn’t like. That’s why he’s stealing so much — because he never had the wealth he actually wanted, the lifestyle he wanted. He was always jealous of the New York social elite who wouldn’t let him into their clubs, wouldn’t invest with him, wouldn’t party with him — because they knew he was a creep. That’s why he spent all his time with Jeffrey Epstein instead.

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Here’s the thing that makes it genuinely disturbing: he can’t even enjoy winning. He’s won two presidential elections — fairly, I believe. Democrats gave him plenty of legs up along the way, but that’s not cheating. That’s just us being bad at our jobs. And still, the 2020 loss eats him alive. It drives him crazy.

And it’s electorally idiotic. Nobody outside the MAGA cult believes anything he says about 2020. The polling is clear. The American people want to hear their president talk about the economy, or the war he started, or literally any problem that actually touches their lives. Instead, he has large parts of the federal government working overtime to prove a lie — stealing ballots in Georgia, trying to pry open state voter rolls. Maybe if Donald Trump spent less time on stupid shit like proving an election was stolen when it wasn’t, and more time doing things that would improve your life, we’d be in a fundamentally stronger position as a nation. He had a chance at the start of this term to reset American politics. He doubled down on the stupid shit instead, because he simply cannot get out of his own way.

He is a bad human being. He is bad for our democracy. And everybody of good conscience — everybody who lives in reality — needs to speak out about whatever he says on Thursday, because we already know it’s going to be bullshit. How do I know? His lips will be moving. Everything Donald Trump says is more or less a lie, and when he stumbles onto a truth, it’s usually one that’s uncomfortable for him and his movement.

He knows he lost. He just can’t let it go. So he’s trying to rewrite history — and more importantly, trying to create the conditions where people doubt the outcome of the midterms in November. Because the same reason he lost in 2020 is the same reason he’s going to lose in November: he’s a bad president, he got people killed, and people are furious about the economy. Politics is not complicated.

He’ll try to steal it anyway. That’s why he’s pushing the SAVE Act to make it harder to register to vote. That’s why they’re stealing ballots. That’s why they’re gerrymandering in the middle of the decade, which is more or less unheard of. They will bend and twist every rule, and they will lie and cheat and steal to win the midterms.

So we have to build a wave too big for them to rig.

Period. End of story.

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