The funniest narrative building this week is that President Trump’s reelection campaign is hoping to “shake up” its operation in light of a torrent of polls and news coverage that all indicate Trump is cruising toward a colossal defeat in November.
“Some Trump advisers and allies are privately pushing for sweeping changes to the campaign, including the idea of a major staff shake-up,” read a Washington Post article on Sunday.
A Politico story one day before said the campaign is aiming to “correct course,” and so Trump “is starting to take a more hands-on role in the campaign and has expressed openness to adding more people to the team.”
It’s a riot. What do any of Trump’s “advisers and allies” think that a campaign makeover will do? What does the president himself think that “adding more people to the team” will do?
All of that will make not a speck of difference so long as Trump — you know, the guy who voters have to want to choose again — continues being a complete idiot.
Even though that now-famous “white power” video that the president tweeted (then deleted) isn’t what the media said it was, he still looks like a fool for having shared it at all, especially given that he apparently didn’t even watch the video before reposting it for his 83 million followers. It’s a joyless video of a bunch of old people yelling at each other, and President Block Head gleefully shares it with the caption, “Thank you to the great people of The Villages.”
Thank you for what? Contributing more yelling to the steaming dumpster that has become social media?
Trump didn’t watch it and yet still blindly shared it, like the most ignorant people online do.
Then on Tuesday, again on Twitter, he tweeted, without context, “THE LONE WARRIOR!”
Republicans in Congress have a fairly dismal track record over the past decade, but the one thing that can’t be said is that they haven’t walked through fire for this ungrateful president. With very few exceptions, they confirmed his judges, voted for his initiatives, refused to criticize him in public, and even got him a couple legislative wins (minor wins, but wins nonetheless).
Oh, and let’s not forget the small tasks of finding out why the FBI was harassing his 2016 campaign and then dragging his bloated body to shore when they could have let him drown in impeachment.
With the exception of Sen. Mitt Romney, every Republican in Congress would be within his or her rights to say, “Screw this, I’m done.” But fortunately, most of them seem to have a genuine sense of loyalty to the country and to their party still.
The Trump campaign doesn’t need a new shake-up. It needs a new Trump. Maybe the president knows where it can find one.
