For the sweet taste of revenge, Donald may even skip paradise
Make way Abe Lincoln. ‘Honest Donald’ is here and he is in no mood to forgive his enemies even if it costs him a place in heaven where he ardently hopes to go after death.
“The answer is no. I want to be honest, no,” Trump told ‘60 Minutes,’ when asked if he could forgive some of his enemies before the judgment throne of God, “Because I do hate some of my enemies and I always will.”
How could he forgive those “very bad people” who had given him hell, said the President, who had last year too rated his chances of getting in low. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole,” he then told his favourite ‘Fox & Friends’ without revealing his sources up there.
But even as he aired his honest belief that the Republicans got a midterm drubbing because he was not on the ballot although he had asked voters to pretend he was, Trump acknowledged his deportation campaign may have been “too tough.”
He also blamed “bad messaging” for voters’ affordability concerns in the interview two days after he replaced chief of staff Ice Maiden Susie Wiles with fiery immigration hawk Stephen Miller, signalling not less, but more Trumpism that led to his — oops his party’s debacle.
Then days after saying he was “absolutely willing” to accept the midterm results, Trump returned to his usual refrain that Democrats stole the midterms suggesting their victories weren’t “honest.”
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“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest? How could the Polls be so wrong???” he posted on Truth Social ignoring the fact that the polls had only underestimated the size of the Democratic sweep.
‘Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote,” suggested Trump again blaming without any basis “unreliable” voting machines.
And as newly elected Democrats made clear their intentions to launch congressional probes when they gain control in January, the White House geared up to fight back with a battery of new lawyers and a warning missive about “monitoring” Democrats’ “abusive and capricious threats.”
Then just a couple of days after suggesting there is no need for new strikes against Iran with peace negotiations making progress, Trump ordered Vice President JD Vance to pull out of the talks and focus on corruption at home — of the Democratic variety.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said he was redirecting Vance to focus his “complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.”
“We don’t need a deal with Iran,” he wrote. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”
A day earlier, in a Veterans Day address at Arlington National Cemetery, Trump had declared U.S. will accept nothing less than “total victory” over Iran though it has already won the war and that it is “just a question of when we want to end it.”
Amid reports of Democratic lawmakers expanding their quid pro quo probe of the donors of his big beautiful ballroom and nine Kennedy family members joining a lawsuit against his triumphal arch, Trump suggested it would also be dedicated to the U.S. military and its ranks.
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Some military groups have cheered the 250-foot arch inspired by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, that Trump himself has suggested might even be called the “Arc de Trump.’’
But many others have opposed it with the Kennedy family fearing it would “permanently cast shadows over and damage historically significant sightlines” in the nearby cemetery, including the eternal flame at the assassinated 35th President John F. Kennedy’s grave site.
Meanwhile, a guerrilla art group the Secret Handshake installed a new statue on the National Mall mocking Trump for allegedly dodging the Vietnam war draft in 1968 with a bone spurs diagnosis.
Titled The Foot Soldier, the gilded statue depicts Trump sitting down while rubbing his bare foot. “We salute a leader who knows you can’t spell sacrifice without ‘I,’ and a warrior who reminds us that sometimes when you’re called to stand up, it’s best to just sit down and rest your feet,” reads the plaque.
“Draft dodger? I hardly know her,” a person dressed as “Toey”, a 6ft-tall mascot of a toe suffering from bone spurs, told the Washington Post, “I’m the biggest toe. The hugest toe. Huge. Hugest toe. Largest toe that anyone’s ever seen.”
A White House spokesperson was quick to dismiss the art work as yet another manifestation of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” calling it “a sick and incurable disease that has rotted the brains of these Democrat activists.”
Earlier, in one of his own pranks, Trump set the cat among scribes by offering the job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the CEO and president of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
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The announcement was accompanied by an animated AI cartoon showing UFC fighters throwing out journalists asking inconvenient questions. At the end, as Trump peeps in to ask, “How was the briefing?” White gleefully responds, “fiery but mostly peaceful.”
Trump later assured horrified reporters he “was only kidding” to bring home the point that with UFC boss flanked by six fighters around, reporters “wouldn’t mess around with him so much.”
No kidding, maybe Trump was only offering a preview of his plan B to crash the pearly gates with sheer muscle power!
(Read Arun Kumar’s Trumpiana columns in his new book, Trumpiana: The Wrecking Machine, available on Amazon.)