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Almost three weeks before the end of his term, the President of the United States, Donald Trump (74), surprisingly canceled his vacation in Florida. Trump traveled back to the White House from his resort in sunny, southeastern Washington state on the last day of the year leaving his presidency in shambles.
The television station CNN reported that Trump had been in “irritable mood” since arriving in Florida a good week ago, not only because of losing the presidential election, but also because of the renovations at Mar-a-Lago that his wife, First Lady Melania (50), mostly supervised.
In Florida, Trump was isolated and angry, and he continues to refuse to give up on the country’s grand political scene that has centered him for the past four years. Almost two months after his defeat in the US presidential election against Democrat Joe Biden, 78, Trump still refuses to admit defeat. A humiliated Trump did not spend the past eight days helping his successor prepare for the White House. At his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump played golf ahead of time at his own golf club and sent angry tweets.
Suddenly ignores reporters too
Trump no longer just swears at the “fake news” outlets and Democrats. He condemned the United States Supreme Court, of which he has appointed three judges, for being “completely incompetent and weak.” The Republican Governor of Georgia? “A complete disaster.”
Other targets of Trump’s hatred are the FBI, his own attorney general, and meanwhile even the formerly benevolent media outlets “Fox News” and the “Wall Street Journal.” Trump continues to view himself as the victim of massive electoral fraud, for which neither he nor his lawyers have provided solid evidence. Dozens of lawsuits have been dismissed from the courts. On January 6, the official reading of the results expires in the United States Congress, which must be chaired by its vice president, Mike Pence (61) of all people. Some Republicans are planning disruptive action that could delay the process a bit longer.
During his vacation in Florida, Trump also had nothing to say, and there never have been, the dozen White House journalists who traveled with him to the Sunshine State. Trump’s silence stands in stark contrast to that of the past four years, when Trump hardly missed an opportunity to express his point of view to journalists.
Horrorjahr Triumphs
President Trump could rarely resist the lure of television cameras and microphones. Not so at the end of 2020, Trump’s year of terror.
After years of flaunting laws and decrees he had just signed for television cameras, Trump signed a massive coronavirus aid package on Sunday behind closed doors.
Trump initially threatened to veto the highly anticipated $ 900 billion stimulus package, which was approved with bipartisan support. But for the first time in history, Congress threatened to overturn a Trump veto. Without saying a word, he stepped back and signed the package without compromise.
Golf player who works “tirelessly”
Trump will remain in office for 20 days. The last photos he offers as president will be of a distant president playing golf, in a white polo shirt and a red Make America Great Again baseball cap. Now Trump canceled his vacation on Thursday afternoon and therefore decided at the last minute to forgo the traditional glitzy New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago.
The White House insisted that the president would not attend any public events in Mar-a-Lago, but would work “tirelessly”: “As the Christmas season approaches,” the White House said before Christmas, “President Trump will continue working tirelessly for the American people. His schedule includes many meetings and calls. “
At a time when the United States, like many other countries, is facing a sharp increase in coronavirus cases, Trump has nothing to say about the pandemic. Except that he blamed state officials for the vaccine distribution delays. The day before his departure from Florida, the United States had a record 3,927 deaths in a 24-hour period.
“Stop the madness”
He is silent on what Trump will do in his final days in office. Will you voluntarily vacate the White House? Will you be attending the Biden grand opening on January 20? Nobody knows. What is clear, however, is that his desperate efforts to overturn the results of the November 3 presidential election are doomed and his influence is waning.
Meanwhile, even Senator Mitch McConnell (78), the powerful Republican Majority Leader in the Senate, has acknowledged Biden’s victory and roundly rejected Trump’s demand for an increase in direct payments for Covid-19 aid. Americans. $ 2,000, as Trump demanded, is “socialism for the rich,” McConnell said.
And even the “New York Post,” which has always been one of Trump’s most ardent supporters, now said it was time for Trump to admit defeat. “Stop the madness,” the newspaper headlined Monday. (with SDA)
