That’s certainly what it looked like to me. Not so much “I want to be here” but “my people didn’t tell me what to do after the medals”. He looked like a confused old man shuffling about.
It’s true. If there was even one single person in his immediate orbit that gave more of a shit about him personally than about what being near him could do for themselves, he’d never have been allowed to walk all the way to Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe, much less left to wander in this screamingly loud, crowded, visually confusing huge building without someone at his side.
And that’s another thing. He’s in a position where anyone already in the area could just rush him, not to mention trip and fall hazards with confetti flying everywhere. Secret Service is there, certainly, but do you see them? I don’t. Everything about this is just odd: no one from his entire entourage is anywhere near him.
Not that I give a shit, but it’s weird that NO ONE he brought with him does either.
The last actual friend Trump had was his mentor, Roy Cohn. Cohn had been Joe McCarthy’s attack dog during the Red Scare, and went on to become one of the most hated lawyers in New York.
Epstein used Trump, but I think even Jeff would have been hard pressed to come up with something nice to say about Donnie.
Agreed. Jeff had plenty to say about Donnie – or “Donni Tee” – and after the party ended, you’re right. None of it good in his later years. On several occasions he pointed out how much worse a human being he thought Trump was compared to himself.
This Epstein email to Larry Summers (one of several along the same lines) pretty much sums it up:
That’s Jeffrey Epstein saying that about Donald Trump.
Roy Cohn is another one, and very difficult to eclipse in terms of personal assholery, but I do think at this point the teacher is probably eclipsed by the student.
Yes, they had their falling out around that time. Thanks for the article, I had not seen that yet. But Maxwell didn’t get arrested until 2020. Epstein got arrested for the first time in 2006 and was convicted on a single charge of solicitation, for which he did a minor stint on work release jail.
But Epstein also called Trump “the dog that hasn’t barked” after he finished his that work-release prison time. This was in 2011 when Epstein was trying to rebuild his social standing, in an email chain with Maxwell, as if to suggest that of all the accusing voices now surrounding Epstein, Trump’s was strangely absent.
Some people took that to mean Trump was complicit (and he surely was) but as it was a post-conviction statement by Epstein, I always took it to mean he thought Trump was involved in getting him busted. YMMV, of course.
He genuinely doesn’t know where he is, does he?
That’s certainly what it looked like to me. Not so much “I want to be here” but “my people didn’t tell me what to do after the medals”. He looked like a confused old man shuffling about.
And then MAGA turns around and starts complaining about Biden
If this were Biden the right-wing propaganda outlets would have this as their top story for a whole week.
It honestly feels like elder abuse at this point, dude doesn’t know where he is or what he’s doing.
This is one case of elder abuse I can turn a blind eye to.
It’s true. If there was even one single person in his immediate orbit that gave more of a shit about him personally than about what being near him could do for themselves, he’d never have been allowed to walk all the way to Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe, much less left to wander in this screamingly loud, crowded, visually confusing huge building without someone at his side.
And that’s another thing. He’s in a position where anyone already in the area could just rush him, not to mention trip and fall hazards with confetti flying everywhere. Secret Service is there, certainly, but do you see them? I don’t. Everything about this is just odd: no one from his entire entourage is anywhere near him.
Not that I give a shit, but it’s weird that NO ONE he brought with him does either.
The last actual friend Trump had was his mentor, Roy Cohn. Cohn had been Joe McCarthy’s attack dog during the Red Scare, and went on to become one of the most hated lawyers in New York.
Epstein used Trump, but I think even Jeff would have been hard pressed to come up with something nice to say about Donnie.
Cohn was using him.
Cohn ran Joe McCarthy’s ‘Lavender Scare’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Scare
They put his name on the AIDS quilt.
Agreed. Jeff had plenty to say about Donnie – or “Donni Tee” – and after the party ended, you’re right. None of it good in his later years. On several occasions he pointed out how much worse a human being he thought Trump was compared to himself.
This Epstein email to Larry Summers (one of several along the same lines) pretty much sums it up:
That’s Jeffrey Epstein saying that about Donald Trump.
Roy Cohn is another one, and very difficult to eclipse in terms of personal assholery, but I do think at this point the teacher is probably eclipsed by the student.
Trump threw Epstein under the bus when Jeff and Ms. Maxwell got arrested.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchio/2026/02/09/trump-reportedly-called-police-about-epstein-in-2006-said-ghislaine-maxwell-was-evil/
Yes, they had their falling out around that time. Thanks for the article, I had not seen that yet. But Maxwell didn’t get arrested until 2020. Epstein got arrested for the first time in 2006 and was convicted on a single charge of solicitation, for which he did a minor stint on work release jail.
But Epstein also called Trump “the dog that hasn’t barked” after he finished his that work-release prison time. This was in 2011 when Epstein was trying to rebuild his social standing, in an email chain with Maxwell, as if to suggest that of all the accusing voices now surrounding Epstein, Trump’s was strangely absent.
Some people took that to mean Trump was complicit (and he surely was) but as it was a post-conviction statement by Epstein, I always took it to mean he thought Trump was involved in getting him busted. YMMV, of course.
The sad part is I think he does.