Trump's political downfall, the fat Elvis phase begins?

I hear frequently on my radio TV program.

Americans are baffled about what's happened to Donald Trump. He used to seem so formidable a

very real threat to American democracy, the pall of dictators around the world.

Now even Putin is dissing him cutting the very prisoner deal with President

Biden that Trump said a few weeks ago the Russian dictator would only do with him.

He's gone in the minds of many Americans from being a danger to being merely weird.

What happened? The simple reality is that Trump has entered the

fat Elvis phase of his career. He hasn't grown or developed new routines. He's just

reliving his old hits every day, playing to a nostalgic and mostly elderly audience

who fondly remember his glory days. His pathetic attempt to question the

racial identity of Vice President Harris was just a warmed over version of his

Obama-Berther slanders. They played well back in the first decade of this century

but now they're just old and flat. His claim that Hispanic immigrants and asylum seekers are taking black jobs is just a makeover

of his 2015 coming down the escalator pitch.

It was new and novel then and caught the love and attention of racist all across America.

Now it's just a tired retread.

His forcing Republicans in the House to vote down the border bill that Oklahoma Republican

Senator James Langford principally wrote,

just adds to the perception

that he's a rank hypocrite with little interest in actually solving America's

problems. His newest fundraising grifts, gold tennis shoes, bloody earbobble head dolls, raising the Marilago entrance

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