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He doesn’t have the energy for them anymore. It should’ve been apparent when he won last year and didn’t go on a “Thank You Tour” like he did in 2016. Now his little Oval Office events are all he can manage, and he uses the desk to both look important and hide how frail he is.

Colorado State Capitol portrait of Donald Trump - Wikipedia

This year brought us the Trump portrait in Colorado, which even has its own Wikipedia entry, proving once again that the Streisand Effect is misnamed.

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Bologna and the Thingamabob

Pretty sure other world leaders only visit anymore so they can give their intelligence services a full first-hand account of Trump’s cognitive decline.

It's a shame Jake Tapper isn't alive to see this.

It's so sad Jake Tapper isn't alive to see this.

It's so sad Jake Tapper isn't alive to see this.

A photo of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2017. North Korea has just conducted a missile test, and Abe and various blurred US figures appear to be in a panic while trying to determine how much of a threat the situation is. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is staring vacantly into the camera like a dolt.

That was apparent back in 2017, too.

How time flies.

A photo of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2017. North Korea has just conducted a missile test, and Abe and various blurred US figures appear to be in a panic while trying to determine how much of a threat the situation is. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is staring vacantly into the camera like a dolt.

Here we go:

I'm also reminded of a photo from his first term, when he was dining at Mar-a-Lago with the Prime Minister of Japan and North Korea had just conducted a missile test. Everyone is gathered around the table trying to determine how serious it is, and he's just vacantly mugging for the camera.

Same reason Congress decided against Cuban statehood in 1902.

Nazis?

A vintage black and white photo of a bookstore with a banner that reads "Books will turn you on."

Books will turn you on.

He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom

And he’d be the first to endorse Trump for a third term, too.

An inflatable frog costume throwing a sub in the style of Banksy

On the other hand, Steve Bannon has been pushing it, and if anyone knows how to keep a half-rotten corpse alive, it’s him.

He thinks holding court behind his fancy soon-to-be-gold desk while everyone stands around fawning over him makes him look powerful, but it really just makes him look small and frail.

Really, Musk wasn’t visible enough in this race. If I had to suffer in Wisconsin last spring, NYC should’ve had their turn.

Kinda wish Cuomo had run on that for the mayoral race.

Comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin's mom is eating dinner and saying "Life could be wortse, Calvin". Calvin is shouting back "Life could be a lot better, too!" I have humorously added the DNC logo to Calvin's Mom and the Zohran for NYC logo to Calvin.

What reforms? Congress has barely done anything this session.

The World According to John Irving

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I mean, I’m sure nobody wants to meet with him anymore, but we have nukes, so…

I’m sure it’s useful. All the spies they’ve got embedded in Mar-a-Lago can only do so much.

Pretty sure other world leaders only visit anymore so they can give their intelligence services a full first-hand account of Trump’s cognitive decline.

The same way he sleeps in court, I imagine.

Exactly. The other details? He doesn’t give a shit.