Reason # 50: Size
Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House?
On election day 2016, Donald Trump lost to Hillary Clinton by three million votes in the general electorate but won the presidency by taking more electoral votes to become the 45th President of the United States. What did he do upon assuming that august office? Did he make a noble speech to the American public. No. He bragged that the crowd size at his inauguration was larger than that of his predecessor, Barack Obama.
The new leader was incensed, on the day after the inauguration, when he saw photographs of the crowd. Both Trump himself and Sean Spicer called the National Parks director Michael Reynolds and demanded that the official government photographer crop out space where the crowd ended from official photographs, so that Trump could falsely claim that his crowd was bigger than the crowd at Obama’s 2009 inauguration.
Spicer held a press conference that day to announce that “This was the largest crowd to ever witness an inauguration, period”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-photos-edited
Of course, such an obvious fraud could never pass muster and the entire sordid story unraveled over time.
What was the take home message for DJT’s first day as POTUS”? There was no surprise, given what we knew of his character before the election. He is a megalomaniac who cannot stand to be second to another. It was particularly galling that he came in second to an African American president. Next, all should have known that despite compelling evidence of the fraud, he would never admit that he was wrong, would never apologize to the American public and would continue to assert the big lie over and over until his vacuous and credulous followers accepted it as true, exactly as they had ultimately believed that President Obama had not been born a U.S. citizen. Also, given his prior record of falsification, it should have been clear that this was only the first of innumerable lies, petty and crucial, that we would be bombarded with over the next four years.
But Trump never grasps the basic fact that in life, as in chess, the opponent always gets the next move. Once it was understood how important size is to Donald Trump. (As we described in a prior post, his hotel restaurant has strict instructions to ensure that shrimps and steaks served to him must be larger than those served to others dining with him!) his antagonists began to exploit this childish weakness. First, it was the size of his hands, followed by possible implications regarding other parts of his anatomy. When he foolishly responded that he was just fine in that area. Jimmy Fallon and Stormy Daniels gave a graphic illustration on late night TV.
Donald never learns however and still maintains that his rally crowd sizes excel, despite evidence that they are a third of comparable sizes during his first presidential campaign.
This foolishness is not only laughable. His claims that his vote size was larger than Joe Biden’s in 2020 resulted in a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The only thing outsized about Donald Trump is his gigantic, inflated ego.
Help cut him down to size by voting for Kamala Harris in 2024.
Have a heart; use your mind, search your conscience, and vote for Democratic candidates – across the ballot – on November. 5th.
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Fred Grannis
September 7, 2024