Trump's Baghdadi Distraction Flops As America Focuses On Impeachment

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Trump got no bump from the Baghdadi raid, and he failed to change the news coverage, which snapped back to impeachment.

It was clear that Trump was trying to use the Baghdadi raid to distract from impeachment. The president began his stunt with his cryptic Saturday night tweet about something big happening. The suspense lasted less than an hour as reports came in quickly that it was a raid on the ISIS leader. Trump’s White House then announced that the president would be addressing the country at 9 AM on Sunday morning.

To read more:

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/10/28/trump-baghdadi-impeachment.html

Trump is desperate to find something, anything, to distract from the parade of witnesses testifying about the Trump/Ukraine/quid pro quo situation.

[Iliyah]

1. He lied about the whole thing .. . .

[guillaumeb]

2. Including the "crying" that he said happened.

But lying is what Trump does best.

[tavernier]

3. He reminds me of some of the characters on Soap,

that old tv show. Maybe he will wave his arms and make himself invisible.

[guillaumeb]

4. That would be amazing.

As long as he was silent as well.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. Donnie forgets 1992 when George HW Bush lost

When the Big Dog asked him “Where’s the beef?”.

At Donnie’s Nothing-Burger Cafe, we lack not only the beef, but the vegetables and condiments and the only buns we see are on Donnie’s extramarital girlfriends.

[crazytown]

8. Um

that was Mondale asking Hart in 1984, first up.

[Blue Owl]

6. Trump is the deflated Baghdadi Blob

n/t

[UTUSN]

7. K&R

[Grammy23]

9. If he set his hair on fire while standing in the middle of the Rose Garden,

He might be able to draw a crowd. Otherwise, he’LL be filling the stadiums with paid attendees.

He wore us out. Probably even his most ardent fans are sick of his act & that mug. now he can’t figure out how to make the magic happen again. Oh, boo hoo.

[guillaumeb]

10. Imagine the toxic emissions from that fire. eom

[gratuitous]

12. He'll need bigger doses to recapture that high

It used to be called chasing the dragon, that futile effort to recreate that first experience. He might get to the point where he actually shoots someone on Fifth Avenue to get attention.

[Johnny2X2X]

11. People have made up their minds

Trump is simply unacceptable no matter what he were to do for a majority of Americans. That's why I think election predictors that were accurate before need to be thrown out. Nothing Trump does between here and the election is going to make those who currently disapprove of him vote for him. The best he can hope for is that he'll successfully paint the Democratic candidate as more unacceptable than him.

[guillaumeb]

13. Excellent observation.

Especially the ending. And that is what they did in 2016.

[Grammy23]

14. Even if he transformed himself instantly into a perfect model of what a President should be,

He cannot sustain it. And we already know who and what he is so I can think of nothing he could do to change people’s opinions of him. That ship has sailed. But his problem is that he needs the praise, the admiration and the loyalty to keep his fragile ego inflated for a while longer...until he gets his next hit. He is always “chasing the dragon” with no idea he’ll never get what he got in the beginning. This period of history will play out in front of us and it will be interesting to see how his story ends. I just hope he doesn’t decide to take us all down with him.

[Johnny2X2X]

15. The way I see it he cannot win fair

For him to win re-election, shenanigans or election theft need to happen.

And the economy is on the brink, if that heads South, all those predictors will be against him anyway.