The former president raised $4.18 million on Friday alone, the single-highest 24 hour period of his campaign to date.
“A fool and his money are soon parted” is once again proven true.
My dad used to smuggly say this all the time. Look who is laughing now that he is maga cuck
I hate saying it but this fool is still winning. Everyone else is losing.
Or maybe everything in life has nuance and can’t be simply boiled down to “winning” and “losing”.
Trump is not only mega rich, but he’s also the head of an actual cult of personality. Those are feathers in his cap no doubt. On the other hand, not only has he lost multiple elections, he’s a twice impeached criminal with 91 very serious charges (and counting) against him and a pile of hard evidence to back it all up. The odds of him spending what few remaining years he has left behind bars are non-zero, and no matter what happens he will incur massive financial costs one way or another.
In an alternate reality he could have sat out 2016 and spent the last decade of his life golfing and stuffing his fat fucking face, and he would have still been rich enough to live however he wanted. But instead he has put the world’s biggest magnifying glass up his own corrupt asshole, and it’s all not looking so great.
Trump is actually very bad with money, historically. His father was the clever businessman, and Trump apparently squandered his inheritance. His partially public tax returns reveal as much. He’s lost absolute fortunes. He couldn’t even get a casino in Atlantic City to stay afloat. I’m pretty sure that everything about his public image is a lie.
At that point at his age you may as well just go for broke. I’d do the same thing. Leave a legacy. Cement your family name in the history books.
What else are you gonna do? Not like the uber wealthy lack for luxury and entertainment. Billionaires get bored and start doing things like submarines and space tourism.
Anyhow, obviously there is no clear distinction between “winning” and “losing” unless we define a clear set of qualifications. If we were to define “how well is Trump dominating the Republican party” he is absolutely winning.
Remember some short months ago him and DeSantis were neck and neck in the polls. Now Trump has shot ahead and DeSantis might even lose his #2 spot to an Indian.
Trump is going to win the Republican primary. This much is clear unless he has a stroke.
Criminal charges will ultimately do nothing to stop him and would probably help him. His base is now convinced there is a concerted effort by the state to hold him down. And to be honest, they’re not wrong.
I don’t think these indictments would have happened if Trump didn’t have a serious chance to win in 2024. It’s too risky. It’s what really worries me. Feels like an attempt at a hail mary pass. If the establishment is so concerned they’re willing to take these types of risks, the future is very uncertain.
So far nothing of real significance has happened to him, and there are still opportunities for fuckery everywhere.
My bet is that it ends badly for him, but he’s wriggled out of many many things before, and he has the House and SCOTUS backing him, as well as every republican state legislature.
He’s not in jail and he just got a bunch of idiots to give him 7 million dollars.
“…according to figures provided first to POLITICO by his campaign.”
The same group that said 6’3" 215, right?
STOP taking headlines on face value and check/challenge actual sources of information (I.e. trump campaign)
Politico is part of Axel Springer now, the German wannabe murdoch clone. Take everything with a grain of salt.
Good. Every dime he gets takes a dime from GOP candidates.
He bankrupted two casinos, let’s hope he destroys the GOP
He definitely helped destroy the GOP currently. They split their voter base between typical conservatives and Trump ™ voters. And with with desaints falling flat in Florida recently i doubt there will be enough support for him as a mainline conservative
The dude can’t fail at failing.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. How the fuck do people still think this guy is what we need. Such a cult
Because they’ve compromised their morals so much to get to where they are that they feel like there’s no turning back.
Because until recently, we didn’t teach kids that making a mistake or changing one’s mind is ok and a sign of learning and growth. You know, that same social-emotional learning that became a conservative boogeyman.
So a bunch of people grew up to be assholes who feel less masculine or powerful if they admit they were wrong or consider new information. Sprinkle in the narcissists, and behold, the cognitive dissonance olympics.
He talks like they do on Facebook (just like me fr fr) and was first white guy elected after Obama.
He is the Avatar of their impotent rage that we elevated a half black guy to highest office. It could have been Jeb or any other white Republican if they were just a tad more racist.
I wonder if Italians or Germans said the same before WWII. Are Americans so uniquely deranged? I feel crazy, too. I wonder how long before my brain is feeble enough to fall for fascist dogma.
Or somehow succeeding while failing… HOw you can get people to give you 7 million after pulling that shit is exactly why people still stake him. They somehow belive that he will pulle throught whatever. The worst thing is that he actually might, thats why they sonehow love him, because they all want that power.
villagers throwing money down a well, because they believe something down there likes them
