Trump The Graviton Blows It On His Latest Attempted Cliffhanger
Donald trump is a graviton and that is why after nearly eight years since his election, he remains a hypnotically magnetic version of the anti-Christ.
A graviton is a hypothetical particle that has been included in some theories to mediate gravitational force. It is in a peculiar category between known and hypothetical particles. And that explains the preternatural powers of trump.
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche also described trump perfectly. Nietzche explained that the will to hold power often manifests itself not as a desire to understand the world, but rather as the desire to change it so that it corresponds to one’s current understanding. That is trump, a graviton that only accepts its own definition.
Gravitons and Nietzche aside, we have been yet again rick rolled by trump, who has yet again proven the old standard, fool me once shame on you, fool me 1,000 times, shame on me.
Rick rolling is an Internet meme that evolved in 2006 as a type of bait and switch where victims get something other than what they were promised or expected. Trump has been rick rolling for years and he did it again with his promise to share an “irrefutable” report on his baseless claims of election fraud in Georgia.
“A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia is almost complete & will be presented by me at a major News Conference at 11.00am on Monday of next week,” trump said.
But the “Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT” never came and there was no press conference. As trump explained, “Rather than releasing the Report on the Rigged & Stolen Georgia 2020 Presidential Election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings….”
Trump and 18 of his followers have been indicted on a range of criminal charges relating to the former president’s attempts to alter Georgia‘s 2020 election results. He said the charges by a Georgia grand jury were just more of the “witch hunt” to stop him from running in next year’s election.
Trump has been charged with 13 counts including racketeering, filing false documents, and attempting to coerce public officers to violate their oaths.
Trump’s decision not to produce the “Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT” is right out of his familiar, wearisome playbook.
In addition to not produce the “Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT,” trump has kept the public on pins and needles and the spotlight on him over whether he will join in the first GOP presidential primary debate next week. He has threatened to skip the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) Aug. 23 debate for months, citing his front-runner status in the primary, but he said this week that he hasn’t “totally ruled it out.”
Last week, he told a Newsmax interviewer that he has decided but, for the sake of drama, won’t announce his plans until closer to the event date. Fox, the host of the debate, has begged and pleaded, genuflected and gotten down on its corporate knees to get trump to join in the debate. Then yesterday, trump told the world that he will not participate in the debate and instead on that same night, he will be interviewed by his main sycophant, former Fox News host, Tucker Carlson. Obviously, trump is trying to upstage Fox, which is hosting the debate, and which trump has attacked for not being enough of a sycophant.
There also has been speculation that trump will turn himself to Georgia authorities for his recent indictment on Aug. 23, in an effort to take all of the oxygen away from the debate.
As for other promises, there was the announcement on Dec. 15, 2022 of another “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT.” Trump wrote on his Trump Social media site that “AMERICA NEEDS A SUPERHERO!” and that he “will be making a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT tomorrow. Thank you!”
The speculation was building, the tension was nearly unbearable over whether trump might announce his 2024 running mate, or a game-breaking endorsement to maybe he would discuss in detail his plans to provide affordable health insurance for all and how he would end the Russian invasion of Ukraine in one day.
As it turned out, trump’s “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT” was the release of a new NFT and that he’d be releasing a set of collectible digital trading cards that all feature himself as a superhero, with lasers coming from his eyes. He announced that the “official Donald Trump Digital Trading Card collection” would “feature amazing ART” of his “Life & Career.” Many of the images actually feature trump’s bloated face superimposed onto images of muscle-bound men doing things Trump has never done.
And the collection of cards was available for the basement, steal price of $99.
“Would make a great Christmas gift. Don’t Wait. They will be gone, I believe, very quickly!” said the former huckster in chief.
Think about when he promised to divulge his income tax returns and never did. The reason for the nondisclosure, he said, was that he was still being audited, and would release the returns after the audit was finished, an excuse that is akin to “The dog ate my homework.”
“First of all, I called my accountants under audit,” trump said in October 2020, a month before he lost his bid to return to the White House throne. “I’m going to release them as soon as we can. I want to do it. And it will show how successful, how great this company is.”
Or his promise he made over and over and over during the 2016 presidential campaign that Mexico would pay to build his “big, beautiful wall.” Mexico has been adamant that it will never pay for the wall and to date, has not put forward one peso for it.
In 2019, trump explained that the fake news got it all wrong and that he never meant that Mexico would actually “write out a check” to pay for the wall.
In 2015, the trump campaign released a position paper on immigration that said until Mexico pays for the wall, the U.S. will take specific steps, such as threatening to “impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages” or to “invoke increased tariffs and fees on Mexico” to raise money for the wall.
In March 2016, the campaign threatened to halt remittance payments from Mexicans working illegally in the U.S. to relatives back home as a way to compel Mexico to make “a one-time payment of $5–10 billion” for the wall. The campaign also proposed increasing visa fees on Mexicans coming to the U.S. as a means to pay for the wall.
None of it happened.
Instead, trump changed his tune, an ancient practice as John Gower wrote, ca. 1394, “Now schalt thou singe an other song.” The actual phrase, “change your tune,” appears in a ballad about Robin Hood from around 1600. And a character in Samuel Beckett’s 1953 novel, “The Unnameable” (1953), “I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.”
However it is explained, trump later claimed that Mexico is paying for the wall “indirectly,” through the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement signed on Nov. 30. The claim is dubious, at best.
“Just a couple of things because I know the fake news likes to say it,” he told reporters. “When during the campaign, I would say Mexico is going to pay for it. Obviously, I never said this, and I never meant they’re gonna write out a check. I said they’re gonna pay for it. They are. They are paying for it with the incredible deal we made called the United States Mexico and Canada USMCA deal.”
In September 2016, then-GOP nominee trump promised to prove the phony “birther” claims that President Obama was not born in the U.S. and was not a legitimate president.
Trump pledged to finally address the birther controversy at the official opening of his new Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Not surprisingly, trump barely mentioned Obama and instead held what was really a giant national infomercial for his new hotel. Reporters, who were told it would be a press conference, were not allowed to ask any questions.
In 2012, trump was not a candidate but he was honing his image as the innuendo man and was hot on the false birther trail of proving that President Barack Obama was not a U.S. citizen when he ran for president and that Obama was a “terrible” college student. Trump offered $5 million for anyone who could produce Obama’s college records.
Going back to Oct. 24, 2012, trump met with reporters to promise an Obama-related “bombshell” that never came. At the time he also released a video offering up a $5 million donation if Obama released “his college records and applications” and his “passport applications and records.”
For anyone who cares about facts, Obama started his higher education in 1979 in Los Angeles at the Occidental College. Obama’s years in L.A. were documented by photographer and friend Tom Grauman. Two of his poems were published in the schools’ literary magazine “Feast.”
In 1981, Obama transferred to Columbia University which lists Obama as an alumni. He graduated in 1983 with a major in political science.
As a senior at Columbia University, Obama wrote an article for the student publication the Sundial, titled “Breaking the War Mentality.” The piece was published in the March 10, 1983 issue.
In the fall of 1988, Obama enrolled at Harvard Law School. At the end of his first year, he was selected to be part of the Harvard Law Review. He later became the first Black president of the prestigious publication in the spring of 1990. He graduated magna cum laude in 1991.
Needless to say trump was peddling vicious innuendo and never did pay out the $5 million.
Trump continued to insist that Obama was not a U.S. citizen. In an effort to quell the fake storm, Obama produced his birth certificate, showing he was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama was a Christian as his mother was raised by non-practicing Christians. His father was raised a Muslim but was an atheist by the time he had married Obama’s mother.
Trump is not the first high ranking official to bait the hook and leave the public dying of hunger.
In the fall of 1968, Richard Nixon was elected President and he told the nation that he had a “secret plan” to end the war in Vietnam. He never explained his “secret plan” but archives made public just this year showed his plan to achieve “peace with honor” was to escalate the war, with nuclear weapons.
And then there was the infamous day of Feb. 9, 1950, in Washington, D.C., when Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., gave a speech in which he waived a piece of paper that he claimed included names of more than 200 members of the Department of State that he said were “known communists.” There never was such a list, but McCarthy’s red-baiting speech in Wheeling, W. Va., sparked a nationwide hysteria about subversives in the American government.
“I have here in my hand a list of 205 [State Department employees] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department,” McCarthy said in his address before the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club.
McCarthy frequently changed the number of communists in the state department to 57, or 81, or 10. McCarthy never produced any solid evidence that there was even one communist in the State Department, much as trump never proved Obama was not an American and never proved that he lost the 2020 election through widespread voter fraud.
Dramatic cliffhangers have often been used in television to draw in and hold viewers. Unlike trump, most of the time they were very successful.
The most famous example was on Nov. 21, 1980, when 350 million people around the world tuned in to the TV show “Dallas” to find out who shot J.R. Ewing, the character fans loved to hate. J.R. had been shot on the season-ending episode the previous March 21.
The episode revealing J.R.’s shooter had an audience of 83 million people in the U.S. alone, as 76 percent of all U.S. televisions on that night were tuned in.
Another popular thriller was the final episode of “The Fugitive” on Aug. 29, 1967. The long-running show starred David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble who had been found guilty of killing his wife although he insisted the killer was the One-Armed Man played by Bill Raisch. In the finale Kimble confronts the One-Armed Man, and is shown to be innocent of murdering his wife.
M*A*S*H was on TV longer than the Korean War was actually fought. It ended after more than 250 episodes with a two and a half hour finale, “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen,” that became one of the most-watched television events in history.
The final episode, closing out the series’ 11th season aired on CBS on Feb. 28, 1983, ending the original run. The last episode was written by eight collaborators, including series star Alan Alda, who also directed. The plot featured several themes to show the war’s effects on individual members of the unit. After the ceasefire was declared, the members of the 4077th threw a party before taking down the camp for the last time. After tear-filled goodbyes, the main characters went their separate ways, leading to the final scene of the series. It is one of the most iconic moments in TV history, something that trump can only dream about.