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Late Night Gleeful Schadenfreude Open Thread: Soon to Be Pining for the Fjords!

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Fair (trigger) warning: I’ve tucked all images of The Former Guy below the fold, so DON’T BLAME ME if you click through.

Now that the miserable sumbich is safely out of power & the limelight, we (or, at least, I) can take pleasure in the suffering of his whole pack of lampreys…

Dispatch from DC, via the Guardian, “Trump’s Washington hotel echoes to silence of missing Maga crowd”:

Once it was like a second White House for the Maga crowd. Now it is in danger of becoming a white elephant.

Clobbered first by the coronavirus pandemic, then by its owner’s election defeat, the Trump International Hotel in Washington is reeling from a huge loss of income and prestige. For critics of the former US president, it is welcome proof of how quickly the city is moving on without him.

“It used to be the hub of Trump World but I can’t imagine who goes there now,” said Sally Quinn, a local author and journalist. “We don’t even have tourists yet in Washington. I can’t imagine most people staying there when they come. I don’t know anybody who goes there or has gone there.”…

Dismissed by Sally Quinn, like a common Clinton! You *know* that’s gotta hurt — not just the Former Guy, but also his social-skidmarking offspring.


Politico, of course, doesn’t know whether to mock or mourn:

He backed away from creating a third party and has soured on the costly prospect of launching his own TV empire or social media startup.

His vow to target disloyal Republicans with personally-recruited primary challengers has taken a backseat to conventional endorsements of senators who refused to indulge his quest to overturn the 2020 election.

And though he was supposed to build a massive political apparatus to keep his MAGA movement afloat, it’s unclear to Republicans what his PAC is actually doing, beyond entangling itself in disputes with Republican icons and the party’s fundraising arms.

“There is no apparatus, no structure and part of that is due to a lack of political understanding on Trump’s behalf,” said a person close to the former president, noting that Trump has struggled to learn the ropes of post-presidential politicking…

“For any normal politician, it would look like he’s trying to have it both ways but really he’s trying to have it his way,” said a former Trump White House official. “He only cares about maintaining his power and his stranglehold over the Republican Party and it doesn’t matter to him how any of the moves he makes affect the long-term success of institutions or individuals other than himself.”

Trump has always been an impulsive figure who demanded loyalty from those around him. But those traits have come with positions of power: whether atop a real estate empire, as a media celebrity, or — in his last iteration — as president of the United States…

Jarvanka not in evidence, you’ll notice! Just the spouse of much-mocked lesser spawn Eric, a lady who’s valiantly (desperately) grifting away at a much reduced level…

Who wants to start the rumor that Young Prince Jared is off recovering from yet another round of plastic surgery, hoping to disassociate himself from some part of the upcoming gotterdammerung?

Reader Interactions

109Comments

  1. 1.

    Ken

    Technically, “He looks like a warmed-over corpse” and “He’s looking better than ever” can both be truthful.  Just not in this particular case.

  3. 3.

    debbie

    Last night, someone said T**** was still on Twitter. Does anyone know where? Twitter search is of no help.

  8. 8.

    Mousebumples

    Apparently Jared had a WSJ oped? I saw it on Twitter but didn’t click through. If I recall the headline, it was related to Middle East foreign policy advice for Biden’s team? *siiigh*

    How can i miss you when you won’t go away?

  10. 10.

    Ken

    @smedley the uncertain: Lenin has a hundred-year head start. But it is hard to imagine even the most insane of Trump cultists dragging his body out once a year to replace any pieces that have fallen off and add another coat of varnish.

  11. 11.

    dmsilev

    They steal from dogs in from shelters.

    I feel sure that at least one member of that family is busily attempting to make a Dalmatian fur coat.

  13. 13.

    dmsilev

    @smedley the uncertain: As a high school student, I visited the Soviet Union a year or two before the final collapse of the Communist government. The longest line we encountered was to visit Lenin’s Tomb. The second longest line was to get in to the Moscow McDonalds, at that time the only one in the entire country.

  14. 14.

    SFAW

    @debbie:

    Last night, someone said T**** was still on Twitter. Does anyone know where? Twitter search is of no help.

    Trying to understand why you would ever want to find his twitter stream/persona/whatever-it’s-called. As I recall, you hate him as much as anyone here does, and more than most, so …

    Is it atonement for something? If so, wouldn’t 1000 Ave Marias and 1000 Pater nosters be better?

  15. 15.

    Chetan Murthy

    I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers that parvenu, Sally Quinn.  Hisssss!

  17. 17.

    SFAW

    @dmsilev:

    I feel sure that at least one member of that family is busily attempting to make a Dalmatian fur coat.

    Cruella DrumpfVil(l)e?

  19. 19.

    Geoduck

    @debbie: He’s not on twitter, but (sigh) every time he releases.. someone releases a message in his name, it immediately gets plastered all over Twitter, both by his supporters and his opponents. I’m surprised they aren’t doing it more.

  20. 20.

    thruppence

    OT, but while trying to negotiate out of a lumpy snowy parking lot, my transmission just went bang. Now awaiting the tender mercies of AAA.

  22. 22.

    different-church-lady

    He looks like any of the less-balanced characters I see staggering around the local coffee shop.

  23. 23.

    Amir Khalid

    @debbie:
    Apparently, he’s tweeting via proxy: writing out tweet-length statements, which he then gives to friends who still have Twitter accounts. Helping him circumvent his permanent ban strikes me as an obvious violation of Twitter policy, and Twitter should ban his proxies. But Twitter hasn’t said anything.

  29. 29.

    JCJ

    @Jim Appleton:  I have never met a world leader face-to-face, but once when I was utilizing the men’s room at a restaurant in Bangkok a former Prime Minister of Thailand (Chatchai Choonhaven) came up to the urinal next to me to relieve himself.

  32. 32.

    Fair Economist

    I blocked The Former Guy on Twitter a year ago and it was a great decision. I really don’t care what he says or does at this point. Sort of interested in which Republicans are crawling on their knees to Their Lady of Lardass but it’s becoming clear that’s going to be almost all of them so not much longer. What I’m interested in now is what us sane people can do.

  34. 34.

    Jim Appleton

    @zhena gogolia:   Honestly, prep school took care of three, a chance encounter in front of the Benson Hotel in Portland led to me induced vomiting in front of GHWB and Barb as they were getting into a limo.

  37. 37.

    Ohio Mom

    Thruppence:
    Ugh. Hope Triple A doesn’t make you wait too long.

    About Jared’s many faces: I can’t begin to guess what he thinks when he sees himself in the mirror. Can’t he tell he started out good-looking and that every surgery has left him weirder looking?

  38. 38.

    jl

    Trump looks so ghastly, good judgment by AL to put his pix below the fold. This is a family blog.

    I didn’t know Jared used to look like a normal person. He paid money for surgery to make him look like a generic wax museum template? These people are totally weird.

    Apparently the dog charity is real and legit. Several people (who claim to be normal, that is, not Trumpsters) say that they have rescue dogs from it. i don’t know if that makes the Trumpster scam better or worse. If it were totally fake, then only the Trumpster fan base marks would be ripped off. But if Trumps are wetting their beaks in the take, then a real dog rescue group is getting cheated too. Anyone know more about that angle?

  41. 41.

    JoyceH

    You know what’s weird? A couple days ago, well before these ghastly pictures came out, the thought popped into my head, “Gee, I hope they hurry up and charge Trump with some major felonies, because if he croaks before being charged, they’re going to feel duty bound to give him a big impressive state funeral.”

    Do I have Foresight?

  42. 42.

    Mary G

    @jl: I read somewhere that they have a very respectable Charity Navigator rating of 80. Maybe they raise a ton of money from lavish dinners. A lot of rich people’s charities do. They  still need to move from Mar-a-Logo.

  43. 43.

    JoyceH

    @Mary G:

    They still need to move from Mar-a-Logo.

    They do. I wonder what the draw is for the members? However great the amenities, it comes with a loony-tunes owner who lives on-site, and whenever the old crackpot crashes your event, you have to pretend to be thrilled about it.

  46. 46.

    rikyrah

    The news that still makes me go????
    After finding out about it…
    Mnuchin had literally stashed away ONE MUTHAPHUCKIN’ TRILLION DOLLARS???

    Can you imagine being the Treasury Department underling who reported that to Secretary Yellin?!??
    The look on her face when she found out???

    You do understand that they fully intended to STEAL IT once Dolt45 was re-elected, right???

    Republicans are bashing the new $1.9 trillion relief package for further ballooning the federal debt, but it’s the Trump administration that greased the path for a smooth federal spending spreehttps://t.co/Svf1OE0Kh2— POLITICO (@politico) March 14, 2021

  47. 47.

    MaryRC

    @dmsilev: I noticed that too. I wondered what seemed different about him and realized that he wasn’t wearing his usual makeup.  I wonder why not — too humid in Florida?  Thumbs-down from Melania?  Bronx Colors no longer making his favorite shade?   I remember reading that interview with two of his housekeepers who said that there always had to be two full containers and 1 half-full container of his liquid makeup in his room.  Maybe the Mar-a-Lago staff left 1 container that was only a third full, the horror.

  50. 50.

    JoyceH

    I wonder, though, how much of Trump’s apparent aging is actual aging and how much is him just letting himself go? I remember when Paul Manafort would make court appearances and people talked about how much prison had aged him, and I replied that much of that was the result of a man who’d lived a millionaire lifestyle suddenly having to go without his colorist and his facials and the steaming and toning and primping and preening that you have done for you when you have plenty of time and money.

    But the fact that Trump isn’t even trying is a sign of age or depression or something. And the pastiness seems to indicate that he’s not even golfing! For years that bronzer would have acted like a sunscreen, but without it, why isn’t he getting a natural tan if he’s actually out on the course?

  51. 51.

    different-church-lady

    It occurs to me that if you want to claim Trump is “getting in shape” then you must also admit that he was previously out of shape, despite his claims of being the most physically fit specimen ever to hold the office of the Presidency..

  52. 52.

    RaflW

    My comment earlier today to one of the ‘looking great’ bits was that Tr–p looks like any number of bored, listless retired men wandering down to the Embassy Suites breakfast buffet, hoping to snarf some bacon before his wife catches him

  53. 53.

    different-church-lady

    @RaflW: We will not truly be back to normal until we are once again able to be haunted by such a sight first-hand.

  56. 56.

    jl

    @JoyceH: Story says Lara Trump is in charge of the fundraiser, so the Trumps have both front hooves in the trough. I don’t think much of the money has much chance of reaching the actual charity, no matter where they hold the fundraiser.

  59. 59.

    catclub

    @MaryRC: I wonder why not — too humid in Florida? Thumbs-down from Melania?

     

    I just wonder why Melanoma has not filed for divorce.

  60. 60.

    Ruckus

    @JoyceH:

    He’s never actually golfed. That requires a modicum of skill and at least a laughable adherence to the rules. What shitforbrains does every time he goes out is cheat at golf. Now the lying part, that is pretty much normal for amateur golfing in my experience, unless you are so bad that no one would ever believe you. He’s that bad.

  61. 61.

    tokyokie

    @Ohio Mom:

    About Jared’s many faces: I can’t begin to guess what he thinks when he sees himself in the mirror. Can’t he tell he started out good-looking and that every surgery has left him weirder looking?

    If you think Jared looks awful, imagine what the portrait he’s hidden in the attic looks like.

  62. 62.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    @John Revolta: I had never seen pictures of the “old” Jared and he was actually kind of cute. Now he looks grim and haunted. Some plastic surgery results are weird (especially since people pay to get the weird results).

  65. 65.

    mrmoshpotato

    Looks like the Kremlin’s orange shitstain wouldn’t have the stamina for sucking Putin’s asshole for four more years. Glad enough of us in enough states punched him in his fat, orange, fascist face with our votes!

  66. 66.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Amir Khalid: ​
     

    Why would anyone need 2 1/2 bottles of liquid makeup?

    Two bottles aren’t enough when covering your fascist face with a brick layer’s trowel?

  67. 67.

    RaflW

    @different-church-lady: It’s been 372 days* since I had a pour-your-own hotel waffle. Of course that’s a pretty infinitesimal thing to even note, but it’s still gonna be a while before things snap back. Self-serve breakfast may be one of the later – they always felt a little marginal in sanitation, IMO.

    *I remember it, because Covid was very much on our minds, but I decided to keep my travel plans with friends for a quick driving weekend March 7-8, 2020 to ski the north shore of MN. And I remember even with the rising Covid worries, not a damn person at the AmericInn besides me was even using hand sanitizer at breakfast. Oh, how naive even I was then!

  68. 68.

    RaflW

    Me, personally, I say: Fuck standard time, but in effect it’s the same complaint. (Morning people will disagree with me on that, I suspect).

  69. 69.

    dmsilev

    I have an annual conference all next week. Normally held in some convention center or another, this year it’ll be several dozen parallel Zoom sessions. Which will start at 6 AM Pacific. Yeah, I think not. Guess I’m going to be signing in for the second session each day, starting at a more civilized 9 AM.

  70. 70.

    NotMax

    The real irony, of course, being that Joe Biden is now the landlord of Dolt 45’s D.C. hotel. The executive branch holds the power of potential foreclosure.

  72. 72.

    Geminid

    Speaking of flailing, failing Republicans, Friday night the Virginia Republican State Central Commitee came up with another plan to choose nominees for Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General, to run in this November’s election: an “unassembled convention.” Delegates will meet May 8 in 37 locations accross the state, and cast ranked choice votes, picking a first and a second choice. The method of selecting delegates will be left up to the District (Congressional) and Unit (city or county) Commitees.     A cumbersome and non-democratic outcome from a divided State Committee.

    The state of Virginia is always willing to conduct a primary election for free. But Republican leaders are terrified that pistol-packing State Senator Amanda Chase would win with a plurality composed of  bible-thumpers and gun nuts, and then lead a Republican wipeout in November.

  73. 73.

    Redshift

    @dmsilev:

    Check if the earlier ones are being recorded, and if you only want to see them rather than participate, watch them at a civilized time. For software conferences, I realized a while back that I don’t learn well from live sessions, and YouTube recordings played at 1.5 speed (slowing it down when I need to) are much better for me. 

  74. 74.

    NotMax

    @MaryRC

    Also, IIRC, 1 full and 1 half full container of Tic Tacs in his bedroom.

    (Not snark; from the same article some time back.)

  75. 75.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Typically Presidents do their aging while in office, leave to Trump to get even that wrong. Some were in Mar-a-Largo there is a boot filled with urine that no has figured out how to empty.

    And Kushner chose to look like he was perpetually 10 year old boy some kind of indescribably awful personality disorder? Good gawd.

  76. 76.

    Amir Khalid

    I’m wondering about the Presidents Club. Did Trump refuse to join, or did Carter, Clinton, Bush, and Obama decide not to invite him?

  78. 78.

    dmsilev

    @Redshift: Yes, they’re all being recorded. So, that’s what I’m going to do if there’s anything in the early sessions that I want to see.

  81. 81.

    Redshift

    @Amir Khalid: For the vaccine video? I’m sure they asked him. They’re too polite not to, and it wasn’t up to the real presidents anyway. And of he could actually manage to say a genuine appeal, it could have helped, since his people are the least likely to say they’re getting vaccinated.

    He either wanted to be paid, or he didn’t want to do vaccine promotion for the same reason he did his jab in secret – he cares about being worshipped by his followers, not about what’s good for them, and wouldn’t risk they might not follow if he contradicted the lies he’s told them.

  82. 82.

    oclib

    @Amir Khalid:

    I’m wondering about the Presidents Club. Did Trump refuse to join, or did Carter, Clinton, Bush, and Obama decide not to invite him?

    Hard to say at this point, but when I read that Biden had rehung the portraits of Clinton and Bush2 and then stated that he’d invite the twit for his portrait hanging….well, I just don’t know.  My guess is that he refused and he’ll likely refuse to the hanging of his portrait.  I base that on the fact that he never invited Obama for the hanging of his portrait.

  83. 83.

    Freemark

    @Mary G: ​
      Jared looks like Tom Riddle from the HP movies. Wouldn’t be surprised at all if he ends up looking like Voldemort.

  86. 86.

    CaseyL

    T* looks as animated as a department store manikin.

    But Jared actually looks like a department store manikin. I didn’t realize he used to be handsome (never having paid attention to the parasitic twerp before T* was elected). Maybe he was aging badly – how old are those “Before” photos? – and the choice was either look like Dorian Gray’s portrait or botox his whole face.

  88. 88.

    Captain C

    @JCJ: In college I got shit-faced several times with a guy who went on to become the Georgian Ambassador to Russia.

  90. 90.

    cbear

    ……..count the days, homie. omar comin’,

    Good Lord, that’s some funny shit right there–I almost fell off the couch laughing. 

  91. 91.

    Brachiator

    President Trump is looking better than ever before!! He’s getting in shape for 2024 and the liberals are freaking out!!

    Dumbest shit I’ve read all week.

    Most likely, next week, too.

  93. 93.

    Sloane Ranger

    It looks like Jared was conventionally handsome at one time, then he chose to have surgery to make him look like Central castings stereotype of a supercilious upper class Englishman. Presumably he wanted his outer appearance to match his personality?

  94. 94.

    p.a.

    At least Stalin’s sycophants knew their lives were on the line.  These people* are just concerned tRump will say something mean about them!

    *Not including those in on the grifts; we know why they fluff the loser.

  97. 97.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    In those photos Dump isn’t wearing his fake spray on tan and let his hair go grey.

    In must be killing him to see Biden getting so much love in commentary and in the polls, as no one is talking about him, not even Fox, who have moved on to Mr Potato Head.

  98. 98.

    Abnormal Hiker

    @Jim Appleton: I worked for two years at the Crossroads of the World (TM), but the most famous person i saw there was Colonel Sanders. Some of my coworkers saw Fidel Castro.  One claims to have cursed Leonid Brezhnev in Ukrainian.

  99. 99.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Amir Khalid:

    Consider this: Sally Quinn still sees herself as a big wheel in DC, but The Guardian now has to explain to people who she is.​

    Progress!

    @Jim Appleton:

    @Villago Delenda Est:   Weird.  In my short life, the four world leaders I’ve met face to face are Ceauscescu, Anastasio Somosa, GHW Bush, and IDJT.

    Can’t be all that short, since Ceaucescu’s been dead since Christmas 1989.

    Can’t claim to have met any world leaders face to face, but I met notorious spook James Jesus Angleton once.

  100. 100.

    lowtechcyclist

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:

    In must be killing him to see Biden getting so much love in commentary and in the polls, as no one is talking about him, not even Fox, who have moved on to Mr Potato Head.

    Just think: only two months ago, we were still worried that TFG would do something on his way out the door that would horribly mess up the country and/or the world, and now he’s playing third (or lower) fiddle on Fox to Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head.

    The world is a much better place now.

  101. 101.

    trnc

    He backed away from creating a third party and has soured on the costly prospect of launching his own TV empire or social media startup.

    Translation: too many federal agencies are watching for him to use another business set up to go bankrupt as a money laundering front.

  103. 103.

    Mousebumples

    @Jim Appleton: I’ve shaken Obama’s hand and got his autograph in my 2008 Presidential Primary Debate Book. The benefits to going to school in Iowa, I guess

    ETA Backstory – my campus hosted a debate, and students could register for tickets through a lottery. I won a ticket (Yay!) and after the debate i stopped by the near campus Obama Campaign watch party site, and the candidate stopped by. ?

  105. 105.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @dmsilev: ​I was in the first MickeyDee’s behind the Iron Curtain (Budapest, Váci út 1-3) the last summer there was any semblance of an Iron Curtain. Next summer I was having a burger with new friends in arguably the fanciest McD’s on the planet – in Budapest’s Nyugati pályaudvar (Western Train Station).

    The 2 best things about Eastern Bloc Golden Arches were, first, lavatory facilities that were clean and free; second, you could learn the local word(s) for “thank you” by reading the door flaps on the trash bins.

    In ’92 I went with my Significant-Ex to the first McDonald’s in Prague (Vodickova, Nove Mesto) and as we left she noted that, after a couple of days in town, the young man who took our order was the first service person in the city who actually smiled at us. I replied, I’ll bet they had to pound that into him at Mickey Dee Training School. (In those days the Czechs weren’t known for their friendliness to customers. It’s better now…)

    Pretty much anywhere I’ve traveled in Europe I’ve gotten a modest chuckle visiting the local McD’s just to see what’s different.

  108. 108.

    Chris T.

    @rikyrah: [on the $1 trillion that Mnuchin accumulated] You do understand that they fully intended to STEAL IT once Dolt45 was re-elected, right?

    No doubt, yes. But however bad their motives, the effect is actually a good one. Treasury interest rates are so low right now that the government should be selling as much of them as they can.

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