Look at it this way. Trump could be starting a war with Iran or provoking a crisis with North Korea in his last days in office. He could even take the advice from The MyPillow Guy and provoke a crisis by trying to declare and implement martial law.
Most of us were glad Facebook and especially Twitter shut him out. The bans worked in significantly slowing the sharing of Trump’s lies and inciting his supporters to violence. Of course, by the time he was kicked off the damage was already done. However, there was a benefit to having him being able to use Twitter. Tweeting served to keep him busy venting his fury.
This reasoning is articulated in “The dangers of banishing Trump from social media” by Raj Persaud, a London-based psychiatrist.
If forced to confront such uncomfortable realities, narcissists tend to feel threatened and lash out aggressively. Social exclusion would hurt anyone. But for a narcissist, it is unbearable – and likely to trigger a violent reaction. Moreover, the risk extends beyond Trump himself, because there is little doubt that many of his supporters exhibit narcissistic tendencies. Multiple studies have confirmed as much, including one published last October by Joshua Hart and Nathaniel Stekler of Union College.
Trump is beset with rage. He’s like a predator who is used to being on top of the food chain being trapped by its former victims. He used to eat them for dinner, now they are about to dine on him. Trump is leaving office facing with the double whammy threat of a Senate trial and prosecution if not in federal court if a self-pardon is successful, in New York. He’s also facing the very real prospect of being poor. Banks won't loan him money in the future and he has some $300 million in loans coming due, New York City is breaking their contracts with his company. The Trump brand is now barely good for selling cheap merchandise. Palm Beach doesn’t even want him living at Mar-a-Lago.
The only difference betweenTrump and the trapped predator is that Trump has the nuclear codes.
All you have to do is scan the headlines to see the things Trump is doing make things difficult for the Biden administration and to get even with his enemies. He also is driven to use the power he took for granted and enjoyed like a pig (no offense meant to pigs) wallowing in shit for four years because he knows he will only have it for a few more days.
Top of the list of what he is doing we have news about his likely pardons. There has been speculation he might even give a blanket pardon to everyone to stormed the Capitol.
We also read how he is trying, apparently without success, to use the military to stage a glorious celebration of “himself” leaving office.
There is other news that we find irritating at best.
He is no doubt getting advice from the remaining toadies still working to find other things to do to make Biden’s job more difficult. He is trying to install Trumpers in civil service positions. For example, he is getting his acting defense secretary to order the NSA director to immediately install former GOP operative as the agency’s top lawyer.
He’s also trying to get $2 billion from donors for a presidential library to be built in Florida, an idea being mocked on Twitter.
Trump is also being distracted by his love-hate relationships with Rudy Giuliani. Rudy is trying to get back into his good graces, and get him to pay him the insane $20,000 per day fee, by
As ludicrous as it is that he may still be in contact with someone better known as The MyPillow Guy than by his real name. If this huckster selling a worthless item (see yesterday’s diary) is telling him what he wants to hear it is a good thing. He’s now promoting the wack-a-toon argument that the coup attempt was orchestrated by Antifa. Apparently at least for now, Rudy will be on his Senate trial defense team.
These things may be annoying or even infuriating to us.
Of serious concern there is the chance that Trump will sell national secrets once he is out of office. On the plus side, as the article above notes:
Trump probably is not conversant with many highly classified details, experts say, He was famous for paying only intermittent attention during his intelligence briefings and declining to read his written materials. Moreover, intelligence officials tend not to share specifics about sources and methods with any president, unless he asks.
So Trump probably doesn't know the names of the CIA's spies in Russia, experts say. But presumably he knows a bit about the capabilities of American surveillance drones, for example, or how adept the National Security Agency has been at intercepting the communications of various foreign governments.
Not only that but he would also be in very serious legal jeopardy if he was caught doing this.
However, regardless of what he does before President Biden is sworn in, we need to remind ourselves that we need to keep Trump from trying to exercise the powers he still has as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces.
I added to this story in the comments.