Reinhard and the boys must have already activated the Crisis Room and put out an A.P.B. to all local Republican jurisdictions to shoot on sight. Follow me below the orange Trump Pompadour for the logic (as if I'M capable of that).
For the Republican party, Donald Trump is an escaped convict. He is armed, with an insane ego and loud and instantly offensive mouth, and he's on the loose. Hide the wimminfolk and children!
Popular wisdom amongst most observers and pundits was that this was just another publicity stunt. The Donald would announce to a raucous (if Trump paid) announcement, a few well (probably gallery packed) attended speeches to helium up his Graf Zeppelin size ego, and then "Ooooooooooops!!!" a missed filing deadline and back to the Apprentice.
But all of that has changed. His insanely toxic comments about Mexico, and immigrants was a bridge too far. A VERY scathing denouncement of Trump by NBC in their announcement of the termination of their dealings with the Donald was a death knell. He has lost the only reliable outlet he had for publicly licking his nuts and stoking his ego. No more sitting in a chair almost as overstuffed as the Donald at the head of a table and berating a bunch of has been celebrities desperately fluffing Trump in the hopes of surviving on camera for ONE more week.That is now ancient history, in the dim, dark NBC past.
To be perfectly honest, I stand in awe of Trump. How can a man with more bankruptcies than wives and a discredited, illegally chartered "Trump University" even slither out from under his front door in the morning, like an oil slick, much less strut out, protected by enough hair spray to replace a Kevlar helmet and pronounce himself "a mogul, an American success story, a job creator"? Is there some special, exclusive store in downtown Manhattan that deals in selling egomaniacs cojones the size of Jupiter?
The ultimate test is going to be the FEC financial filing statement deadline. If he blows that, or if it turns out that he actually IS nothing more than hot air with a bunch of "0"s in rows on a piece of paper, then it's over. He becomes just about as interesting as Sister Sarah but without the randy wink. But if in fact he DOES have the assets then guess what kiddies. He's in this to the bitter end. He has no choice, we all know that the Trumpmeister would starve to death physically as long as his ego was well fed. He has NO other outlet for his over weaning ego and camera addiction than this race. And make no mistake, he will be a one man wrecking crew. He has already showed that he has absolutely no respect for the process or the other candidates. His statements and speeches will be come ever more caustic and obscene, and he WILL have his following. He will become more and more insulting and disdainful of the process and his opponents, the debates will become WWE spectacles, dominated by "The Killer 'Do".
Grab the popcorn my beloved fellow Kossacks, we can only hope that he makes it through all the way to the convention!