Is There Anything The Orange Snowflake Will Not Whine About?

Also: Don Snoreleone, aka Don Fartleone

Donald Trump has proudly described himself as “the most fabulous whiner”.

On August 11, 2015, he told CNN:

I do whine because I want to win and I’m not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win.

If you listen to any recent audio clip of Trump, it won’t be long before you hear the word “unfair”. It’s one of his favourite words. So what’s he talking about? What’s “unfair”?

Everything.

Every. Fucking. Thing. Every. Fucking. Where.

It’s all unfair — because Trump cannot do whatever he wants to whoever he wants whenever he wants and for as long as he wants. He is 77 years old — and goo dluck finding a two-year-old baby that’s more immature.

It’s unfair!!! “Why didn’t they bring these cases three years ago?”

It’s unfair!!! “This Trial is a Long . . . Endurance Contest” (April 19)

It’s unfair!!! “The judge wants this [trial] to go as fast as possible.” (April 18)

It’s unfair!!! “I am supposed to be . . . different places campaigning but I’ve been here all day.” (April 18) [The court was dark on April 17. Did Trump campaign in a different place? No.]

It’s unfair!!! The judge is running this trial “at breakneck speed”. (April 19)

It’s unfair!!! “I am sitting here for days now from morning until night . . .”

It’s unfair!!! “. . . in that freezing room. Freezing! . . . It is very unfair.”

It’s unfair!!! The Judge “is preventing me from proudly attending my son’s Graduation. Seems very unfair . . .” [Judge Merchan has not decided, but he’s leaning towards allowing him to go. Note: Trump did not attend the high school graduations of his other four children: Junior (1996), Ivanka (2000), Eric (2002), or Tiffany (2012). Earlier this year, he was excused by the court to attend his mother-in-law’s funeral. He was a no-show because he held a rally instead. Uday and Qusay called the Merchan’s non-existent decision “evil” and “truly heartless”.]

It’s unfair!!! I have a big pile of printouts from the world’s most-respected legal scholars, like Steve Bannon, Tom Fitton, Mark Levin, and Charlie Kirk, all saying I’m innocent.

It’s unfair!!! New York State civil fraud case: “If I had a jury, we’d win this case very easily, but I don’t have a jury . . . This is a railroading.” (October 4, 2023)

It’s unfair!!! Manhattan criminal case: “The jury selection process is unfair.” (April 17, 2024) [Trump was forced to listen for hours as potential jurors read their social media posts in which they ridiculed Trump. One video featured an AI-Trump saying, “I’m dumb as fuck.”]

It’s unfair!!! I cannot get a fair trial unless I can encourage death threats against the twelve jurors and the judge’s daughter.

It’s unfair!!! “They have taken away my constitutional right to speak and that includes speaking to you.” [P.S.: I’m freely speaking to you now — and have been every day for weeks, whenever I want.]

It’s unfair!!! Outside the courtroom, after Tuesday’s session:

This is an assault on America. Nothing like this has ever happened before. There never been anything like it. Every legal scholar says this case is nonsense. It should never have been brought. It doesn’t deserve anything like this. There is no case and they’ve said it. People that don’t necessarily follow or like Donald Trump said this is an outrage that this case was brought. This is political persecution. This is a persecution like never before. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it and again it’s a case that should have never been brought. It’s an assault on America and that’s why I’m very proud to be here. This is an assault on our country and it’s a country that’s failing. It’s a country that’s run by an incompetent man who’s very much involved in this case. This is really an attack on a political opponent. That’s all it is, so I’m very honored to be here. Thank you very much.

Those 57 seconds featured:

Nothing like this has ever happened before
There’s never been anything like it
Nobody’s ever seen anything like it
should never have been brought
an outrage this case was brought
should have never been brought
doesn't deserve anything like this
I’m very honored to be here
political persecution
persecution like never before
an assault on America
an attack on a political opponent
nonsense
an assault on America
an assault on our country
a country that’s failing
a country run by an incompetent man
no case
I’m very proud to be here

Pampered & Walled Off From Reality

The world in which Donald Trump resides is populated exclusively with sycophants, grovelling bootlickers, and subservient yes-men. To protect his fragile ego, he exists inside a bubble where only fawning praise, constant admiration, and deferential worship are allowed. He will go to extreme lengths to insure his thin-skin never faces contradiction, discomfort, or lack of attention.

Trump makes sure to enter the restaurant in his garish, bedbug-infested golf-motel at a specific time in the early evening so that everyone immediately stands up from their dinners when he appears and gives him a standing ovation.

When Trump plays golf (which was daily, until recently), he’s accompanied by a woman named Natalie Harp, who rides in a golf cart with a laptop and a wireless printer. Her job is to find pro-Trump news articles or social media posts that praise Trump. She prints them out and hands them to Trump. Her salary is more than $100,000 per year.

Trump had (and perhaps still does have) an aide who carries around a boombox, ready at a moment’s notice to play Broadway show tunes if Trump needs to “calm his rage”. The aide — known as the “Music Man” — often played “Memory”, from the musical Cats, as that is one of Trump’s favourite songs.

When Trump was in the White House, he would get restless because he never did any work. At those times, Molly Michael (his assistant) would place calls to various “friends” and supporters of Trump and strongly suggest they call Trump and “boost his spirits with positive affirmations”. (Trump must have, at some point, told her to do this. That means anytime he gets a call from someone telling him he’s the greatest, he must realize it’s all an act.) Michael is not doing this anymore. She has told federal investigators that Trump instructed her to lie and say she knew nothing about stolen top-secret documents, which Trump used as scrap paper, writing to-do lists on them. To-do lists for her, of course, not for him.

We all know about Walt Nauta, the Diet Coke Valet (and indicted co-defendant in the classified documents case), who was hired by Trump despite (or perhaps because of) being accused of sexual misconduct by three fellow military service members.

In June 2017, the media was present at the beginning of Trump’s first meeting with his entire Cabinet. Trump began by having everyone at the conference table speak about how much they respected Trump and how honoured and proud they were to work for such a great man. (VP Mike Pence praised him 12 times in three minutes.) [Vanity Fair reported “such tin-pot theatrics have become commonplace”; Trump’s “deep insecurity” is “shocking”, as is how fast those around him “have contorted themselves to flatter his fragile ego”; the “unspoken understanding” among the Cabinet is that Trump “is fundamentally unwell, and in need of constant assurance”.]

A federal court ruled that Trump, as president, violated the US Constitution by blocking people on Twitter who said mean things about him. Because Trump used his account in the course of conducting government business, he was not allowed (under the First Amendment) to exclude certain Americans from reading his posts or responding to them.

Trump will be interviewed by only far-right networks (99.8% of the time), thus enabling him to remain walled off from reality, accountability, and any questions tougher than: “What’s it like to be so rugged and brilliant and virile all the time?”

Trump is so thin-skinned that aides simply stopped bringing up topics like domestic terrorism and the threats from white supremacist groups because they feared offending Trump and setting off his temper (persumably, “Music Man” was not in the West Wing).

Team Trump altered the audio of clips when Trump was booed, adding fake cheers to drown out the boos before posting them online.

Trump refused to visit to the graves of US service members in a World War I cemetery in France because he didn’t want his hair to get wet.

Tom Nichols asked a key question in May 2020 (“Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President”):

Why don’t the president’s supporters hold him to their own standard of masculinity?

Yet Another Confession

On Tuesday morning, on his way into court, Trump spoke to reporters — and gave prosecutors a huge gift, by confessing to the exact crime for which he is currently on trial in Manhattan.

I was paying a lawyer and marked it down as a legal expense — some accountant I didn’t know marked it down as a legal expense. That’s exactly what it was . . .

Law professor Jessica Roth found this interesting:

When he started to say, “I marked it down as legal expenses,” my ears perked up because it’s been a little bit unclear exactly how the state is going to prove that Trump falsified the records because many of these entries may have been made by the accountants for the Trump Organization.”

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin agreed that Trump’s comment is “gonna be a big issue in the case”:

How is the government gonna prove that Trump knew and initiated or at least supported the idea that these payoffs were recorded as legal fees? He said, “Mark them down.” . . . [H]e sort of caught himself. But that video could be played before the jury, no question.

David Pakman, David Pakman Show:

We know you marked it down as a legal expense. We know you were working with a lawyer. We know that you gave the money to Michael Cohen to get Stormy Daniels to shut up and not potentially ruin your campaign. The one little problem — it’s just a minor detail — it is very much not a legal expense to shut up the adult film actress that you had an affair with, so that she doesn’t ruin your political campaign. It is not a legal expense. That’s the problem. And so Trump [is] essentially stipulating 90% of the facts of the case here. And this is why lawyers don’t want you talking to the media.

This is certainly not the first time Trump has confessed to crimes for which he has been arrested and indicted. He’s confessed two dozen times (a rough estimate, it might be more) to stealing classified files and documents. He always seems utterly clueless that he is, in fact, confessing. I pray that numerous clips from his Newsmax and Fox interviews and his delirious all-CAPS 3 a.m. social media rants are presented at his trials as evidence against him. What would happen in that orange pumpkin head when he realizes — when he truly understands — that it is his own words that are dooming him to prison? Trump has been the best and strongest source of evidence in every one of the investigations against him. I look forward to that becoming common knowledge.

FART

The “House Freedom [sic] Caucus” — that motley crew of fascist, pro-Putin, MAGA shitposters and performative clowns — have formed a group that will work in shifts to monitor what happens on the chamber floor “to prevent their own party leaders from making unilateral moves that could curb their power”. They call themselves — this is not a joke — the Floor Action Response Team . . . “FART”.

Don Snoreleone

Trump fell asleep in court “several times” on Friday. One report from Maggie Haberman of the Times:

Trump appears to have fallen asleep in court again. It happened several times just now. His eyes were closed for extended periods and his head dropped down twice.

Don Fartleone

It now appears that FART chose their name to honour their Orange Jesus.

Meidas Touch Network host Ben Meiselas:

What I’m hearing . . . from credible sources who know what’s going on in the courtroom . . . Donald Trump is actually farting in the courtroom and it’s very stinky around him. It’s a putrid odor in the courtroom and Trump’s lawyers are repulsed by the scent and the smell. . . . I’m hearing it from actual credible people that as he’s falling asleep, he is actually passing gas and that his lawyers are really struggling with the smell. I think you’ll actually start to hear more of this . . . people who are there are saying that it’s putrid around him.

I 100% believe it. . . . Now we finally know why those big, strong men who never cried in their entire lives even when they were babies came up to Trump to shake his hand and thank him from the bottom of their hearts for giving their lives meaning had tears in their eyes.

Back on December 16, 2023, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) posted:

I’m genuinely surprised how people close to Trump haven’t talked about the odor. It’s truly something to behold. Wear a mask if you can.

Kinzinger’s post went viral. #TrumpSmellsLikeAss was trending. . . . lol, it’s trending right now! [#MTSLATA2024]

He tried to describe Trump’s unique smell:

It’s not good. The best way to describe it . . . take armpits, ketchup, a butt and makeup and put that all in a blender and bottle that as a cologne. That’s kind of that. I’ve been amazed that everybody is just kind of learning about this now.

Republicans Against Trump, Xitter, December 21, 2023:

Kathy Griffin who spent time with Donald Trump while appearing as a guest on the Apprentice said in an interview that Trump smells “like body odor with kind of like scented makeup products.”

The Lincoln Project released a 40-second video entitled “Limburger”.

Ron Filipkowski, Xitter, April 19, 2024:

The most compelling argument that has ever been made in US history for cameras in the courtroom is Donald Trump falling asleep and farting repeatedly during his trial.

Noel Casler worked on The Apprentice and says Trump often soiled himself on set. (Trump’s rampant drug use has forced him to wear diapers since the 1990s.) Whenever Trump shit himself, everyone would stop what they were doing and another staffer (whom Casler names) would walk him off set and clean him up. (I don’t what that guy was paid, but it wasn’t close to enough.) His nickname was “Wet Wipes”. Casler says Ivanka whispered in Trump’s ear and walked him off set after one incident. (Casler also said Trump has shit his pants on camera when he was president. Is that what’s happening in this clip from March?)

The late, great journalist Wayne Barrett chased a story in the early ‘90s that Trump had been hospitalized for an amphetamine overdose. And while in the White House, Trump — in his early 70s — was crushing up “cheap speed” and snorting it.

So, yes . . . I believe it.