HuMcK said:
Trump represents all of us as Americans, as embarrassing as he is, that's kind of the point of the Chief Executive. He certainly represents the Party that follows his lead and bends over backwards to enable him. Remember when I said Trump would not accept defeat and would try to steal the election anyway, then you told me that was crazy? Well, here we are, and it's playing out. Predictably, here you are downplaying and defending it. That's why people associate you with Trump, you talk a big game about not supporting him fully, but the bulk of your posts are either defenses of his conduct or pretending it isn't happening.
Trump
is supposed to represent all of us, but
he does not, and
he has not from the start of his administration. He hasn't said anything that others, including many of his political opponents, have not said, but presidents are not supposed to use that kind of rhetoric. I have a friend who commented that it was whatever time and she didn't know what president-elect Joe Biden was thinking or watching and wasn't that refreshing. I chuckled because it didn't follow what Trump tweeted out like so much verbal salad during his time in the White House.
The crap he is spewing now is mostly him retaliating for those who questioned the legitimacy of
his election in 2016. (And, yes, there was plenty of that, but so what?) He does this kind of thing because he is petty and because
he represents himself. And he will "accept defeat" when the time comes, as it will soon. I expected his defeat to be a good bit more decisive (and not to have him listed by bettors as having a 70-plus percent chance of being the winner late on election night).
If he represented the best interests of his party, he would be acting differently, but he doesn't represent his party,
he represents himself.