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What Will Trump Say After He Loses Again?

Mike Weisser
4 min readAug 3, 2024

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So, now that Kamala has received enough votes from delegates going to the Democratic convention to be declared the Presidential nominee, I need to raise the following question with my readers — ready?

If Kamala wins on November 5th, what will be Trump’s bullshit explanation for losing this time around?

Which then raises a second question, which is what kind of deal should Kamala offer Trump so that he’ll shut the fuck up and go away?

Think I’m kidding about that second question? I’m not. And the reason I’m not kidding is because I always had something of a feeling that when Joe decided to run after Trump made such a complete and utter asshole of himself by desperately trying not to condemn the Nazis who marched through Charlottesville in 2017, it probably never occurred to anyone that if Trump lost in 2020, that he would spend the next four years running for President again.

Which means that Joe might have seen himself as a one-term President because he certainly didn’t behave like a guy planning to run for a second term while he was in the Oval Office between 2021 and this current year.

I have been paying attention to Presidents since JFK was elected in 1960, and I don’t recall another occupant of the Oval Office who paid less attention to his public and media image than Joe has paid over the last four years. It’s almost as if he has to be reminded that there are millions of people out there who want to hear what he has to say and yet, his public appearances have been largely confined to brief announcements made standing in front of a lectern and you get the clear impression that he can’t wait to get off the stage.

Trump, on the other hand, not only made a point of getting himself in front of the media, both social and news media every day, but the nonsense about how the 2020 election was ‘stolen’ from him just gave him another script that he could read out loud over the last four years.

Until last week, Trump was so busy attacking Joe for being too old and too befuddled to sit behind the Resolute desk again that he didn’t have time to come up with a pre-election narrative that could have then become a post-election excuse because he was either even or a little ahead on all the polls.

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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