Trump Is Small Now
We now can see who Donald Trump really is without the power of the presidency behind him
I understand — I strongly endorse, in fact! — not wanting to look at or think about Donald Trump anymore. The man took up every available ounce of oxygen in American life for more than a half-decade, which was of course the point of his whole self-aggrandizing bull rush of an experiment in the first place. (The world exists for Donald Trump only in how much it’s currently talking about him.) It’s quite reasonable if you have decided that you have had enough. Lord knows I get it. I’ve tried to do the same.
But. I cannot stop watching the video, filmed over the weekend, of Donald Trump speaking to a wedding at Mar-a-Lago.
It is not clear if Trump was specifically invited to the wedding or just decided he needed a break from 24-hour Newsmax and thus put on a tux to head downstairs. It’s fair to assume that if the wedded couple — longtime Trump donor John Arrigo and Megan Noderer, former girlfriend of late NFL player Junior Seau— had their wedding at Mar-a-Lago, they weren’t too offended by him showing up, but still: It really must have been something, on your wedding day, to watch Donald Trump yammer on and on about the election and the border for five minutes. I mean, I had belligerent old men at my wedding too, but…
