If you’ve seen the movie “Django Unchained,” the lead character, a slave named Django, prolifically blows away (or blows up) the bad guys. (Plot details here, and watch video below.)
Trump ain’t no gunfighter. He can’t make money in business against competition. He can’t win an election without cheating. In his last “High Noon” outing, he was shot down (figuratively speaking) by a senior citizen whom a Horsesass.org troll calls a “vegetable.” Let’s face it, Trump is a wet noodle.
Deep down in his soulless being, he himself knows this. He quivers if a wispy little cloud of competition appears on the horizon.
Enter the cloud.
“Donald Trump is reportedly growing annoyed with one potential 2024 rival for the Republican presidential nomination: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis,” Huffington Post reports (here). “’He says DeSantis has no personal charisma and has a dull personality,’ one unnamed source told Axios. While several potential 2024 Republican candidates have publicly said they won’t seek the nomination if Trump runs for a third time, DeSantis isn’t one of them.”
Hooboy. Trump doesn’t like that.
“I wonder why the guy won’t say he won’t run against me,” Trump told associates, according to the New York Times. Uh, because may he wants to be president? (For the record, DeSantis isn’t the only one; see story here.)
The conventional wisdom is that the 2024 GOP nomination is Trump’s for the taking, and he intends to take it. It’s unlikely DeSantis knows something the rest of us don’t. At any rate, it sure doesn’t sound like Trump has confided to DeSantis that he, Trump, doesn’t plan to run: “Trump allies have warned DeSantis not to test the former president,” Huffington Post says. That’s apparently a threat to screw up DeSantis’ 2022 reelection bid as Florida governor if he doesn’t bow out.
“Trump himself has publicly said he’s not worried,” Huffpo says. “’If I faced him, I’d beat him like I would beat everyone else,’ he told Yahoo News last year.”
Oh really? Then why is he bristling? And acting nervous, and making threats? If he’s not worried, why doesn’t he just run against him, and all other comers? Because he’s scared to death of competition, that’s why. Remember, this wet noodle didn’t have the guts to stage a coup when his closest friends (Mike Flynn and Mike Lindell) and legal adviser (John Easton) where urging him to do so, and didn’t even have the spine to pardon himself before leaving office.
Yeah, I can visualize Trump, ensconced in his castle at Mar-A-Lago, turning over in bed and punching his fist into the pillow, worrying about DeSantis. But maybe he ought to worry about state and federal prosecutors more (see, e.g., story here).
Photo above: “Does this mean we’re not friends anymore?”
https://youtu.be/6IA1Pb4iF5U