He's pulled several noteworthy stunts in the last day or so, all pursuing invariably the same object: keeping himself in the spotlight, reminding one and all that he still has official presidential power, as well as plenty of adulation from his cult, and he will not be overshadowed.
When Senator John Thune said to CNN that any attempt to get the Senate to vote to overturn election results on January 6 is DOA, he got this:
Republicans in the Senate so quickly forget. Right now they would be down 8 seats without my backing them in the last Election. RINO John Thune, “Mitch’s boy”, should just let it play out. South Dakota doesn’t like weakness. He will be primaried in 2022, political career over!!!
I'm on record as not being too keen on the COVID relief bill that came out of Congress after weeks of tortuous attempt at bipartisan compromised, but it's a done deal. The next Congress is perfectly free to work on another one. But the general feeling among the post-American public is that it's time to get some relief to people badly impacted by the pandemic.
So what does the VSG come along and do? Disparage the $600 direct payments. Recommend $2000. After the fact. Why the hell wasn't he chiming in on this in September if he felt that strongly about it?
It's just his feeble attempt to look like a good guy. he knows he'll still get some mileage out of having spoken up and juxtaposed himself against that stingy lower figure. That is, unless, he causes such chaos from this that it delays dragging this thing over the finish line.
Then there are the pardons. George Papadopoulos, Duncan Hunter, Chris Collins. The whole point of those was to serve notice that there are still a lot of things he can't be stopped from doing in the next four weeks.
This is what the Trump phenomenon was always destined to devolve into.
UPDATE: Now he's vetoed the military spending bill. All so he can whine about privately owned social media platforms being able to control what content gets published.
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