Closing Night

This today is the close of the Mid-Term election, I figured we'd go to the closing argument that Trump made yesterday. His final chance to speak to the American public and make his case at a big rally for why Americans should pretend he was on the ballot with his 30% approval and vote for MAGOP candidates.

And instead of going to toss-up state or district, or an adoring Red state high school gym to make his case why affordability is supposedly a hoax and why it's so great that oil companies are making huge profits and why it was so smart of him to go to war against Iran that he can't figure out how to end and why Americans aren't the ones paying for his tariffs that they are paying for -- he stayed in Washington, D.C. And spoke at the Reflecting Pool, site of one of his remodeling disasters.

The crowd overflowing with mostly National Park Service employees was an invigorating sight to behold.

But the location of Trump's closing argument and the "crowd size" aside -- which is a lot to put aside -- it's what his closing argument speech actually was that leaps out and shows the disastrous hole the MAGOP is in because they have nothing to run on.

It was insane.  Overwhelmingly more lunatic than anything I suspect even the would have even imagined.  I can only guess how furious MAGOP candidates are, seeing this closing argument from their party's leader who they tied themselves to.  Well...it was their choice, they enabled him and deserve it all.

Trump spoke for about 50 minutes, and the first 20 minutes were (and I'm not kidding) about the Reflecting Pool, and how it was vandalized (despite the official report saying the damage was caused by the pool guy Trump hired), but it was now so beautiful, and how he had all these other renovation projects, and brought along a collection of visual aids to show it all off, along with big poster board photos to prove in his dementia-driven delusion the non-existent vandalism. And so much more. Though that's probably a bad use of the word "more."

And to top it off, Trump seemed lethargic and uninterested. Even when he talked about renaming the Lincoln Reflecting Pool the "Trump Reflecting Pool" -- which he made sure to say that he was just joking about that.

Here’s a 3-1/2 minute clip.

Watching about 30 seconds will likely give you an idea and much more than enough.  Although you might be fascinated enough to keep watching, just like a gaper's block on the highway when there's a car crash.

This closing argument is so hapless that it's virtually a satire. But then, you may recall what renowned playwright George S. Kauffman said about such things, after a deeply-biting satire he wrote bombed out of town.

"Satire is what closes on Saturday night."

Or in some cases, Tuesday night.