The tycoon works at his Mar-a-Lago complex in a lavish replica of the office of the President of the United States, where it is still possible to live out the fantasy of a head of government and his race as the 2024 Republican nominee for to prepare
Donald Trump is a retired president who refuses to act like a retired president. Those who follow him closely affirm that it is his way of perpetuating the illusion that he still commands the United States, only that Joe Biden and electoral fraud orchestrated by Democrats and Progressives will have him removed from the Oval Office- got a chair. Others think it’s the formula to keep his supporters enthusiastic and keep the cash register open for donations. Behaving as Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, or Barack Obama did after leaving the White House would somehow be synonymous with acknowledging his electoral defeat in 2020. And that’s not in his mind.
In this fantasy, the magnate has transformed the ballroom of his private club in Mar-a-Lago into a kind of parallel Oval Office. It lacks the historical significance of the presidential office, but exudes more solemnity, luxury and power than any other cabinet. Memorabilia and artifacts from his time as president adorn the vast hall where he receives visitors on comfortable sofas, watches television on screens that can provide shade, is flanked by national flags, and wields authority enough to yell at the staff and keep them loyal to it. He’s just missing the button he used to order coke in the White House, but here he’s doing it loudly. After all, this is your home. Trump house.
They say that much of his office hours consist of permanent anger. Perhaps he suffers from a metabolic disorder that translates into bad gestures from the news that hits him every morning from the front pages of the newspapers and television channels, which he carefully reads before leaving home. The Congressional Committee’s latest accusations, which linked him to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, though not physically, but morally, the recommendation to disqualify him from future public office, or the crimes of fraud charged on the Trump- organization, its financial empire, are probably behind Mar-a-Lago’s eternal storm.
Unlike his predecessors, Trump does not write books or give lectures paid for the price of Galician barnacles around the world. Nor is it devoted to building a presidential library to augment national fund archives. Nor has he donated many of the official gifts he received during his legislature, as is customary, as they automatically become articles of political worship. It is said that he was able to take up to a hundred boxes of gifts when he left Washington. And quite a few more ‘top secret’ documents, for which he is being investigated. In this regard, the hypothesis is growing that he did not do this for improper reasons. Simply, keeping state secrets in his desk drawers made him feel more like a president.
Instead, he created his own foundation, American First, though his calling has nothing to do with the Center for Peace that Jimmy Carter founded in his day or the Obama Foundation, which the first black president of the United States established in Washington. after leaving the White House. He and Michelle offer their experience and their name to this group of discussion and talent training that has trained more than 700 leaders from Europe, Africa and Asia. American First is something else. It is an organization fueled by private funding that essentially aims to perpetuate Trumpism. Even while their guru sleeps on one coast, hundreds of volunteers continue to proselytize on the other, a terrifying exercise as it fuels extremism, detractors say.
It is in this context that Trump is unleashed. The Republican Party still hasn’t figured out how to dissolve the halo of radicalism that the tycoon unexpectedly threw on his shoulders a few weeks ago by inviting rapper Kanye West and white supremacist Nick Fuentes to dinner at Mar-a-Lago . It is true that the conservative leader later scolded the artist, now known as Ye, banned from the networks and deprived of commercial contracts for his anti-Semitic manifestations, for bringing to his home a reference from the far right that advocates a ruled United State exclusively by non-Jewish and non-Muslim whites. “Kanye West really wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was supposed to be just me and Kanye, but he came with a guy he had never met and knew nothing about,” Trump later said.
The problem is that the damage is done. Fuentes is a poisonous figure to associate with a political candidate. He was on the ill-fated January 6 at the Capitol where he called for “restoring this country even by force”, a well-known agitator on social networks, he considers himself a paleoconservative and an “incel”, a voluntary celibate, a name that groups of conspiracy enthusiasts, frustrated men and deep misogynists. His anti-Semitic views have earned him the label of neo-Nazi, he rejects immigration, condemns abortion and argues that women and members of the LGTBI community should be disenfranchised. The ideal type of person to shy away from Christmas dinner.
Trump’s derailment has been explained by some of his past acquaintances by the current lack of filters that protected him in the White House in the past and acted as a shield against certain excesses. In his Florida office, staff are completely subservient and have no institutional positions that give them any authority over the boss. While in office, cabinet members such as Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, James Mattis, Secretary of Defense who resigned nearly two years later because of the president’s radical drift, or Mike Pence, the vice president who refused to give in at all in the effort to boycott the 2020 election had the track record and weight to stand up to him. The only one he seems to listen to is his lawyers.
Perhaps the perfect example of submission is the day Trump wanted to make a public statement in his particular Oval Office. In the White House, there is usually a watch team of expert journalists in the administration in case the administration or president decides to make an unexpected announcement. But the advisers didn’t want to face the tycoon to show him that no one waits at the door in Mar-a-Lago, that his interest in information isn’t the same once he’s lost his institutional position, and they set out to to call editors from all over the world to try to put together an acceptable group to attend his performance. It also doesn’t help that Trump is going it alone. In Truth Social, his own social network, he shoots at will without anyone filtering his posts.
The dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes also coincided with the same days the magnate announced his candidacy for the Republican Party for the US presidency in 2024. Conservatives outside the extremist wing choked on the menu. Several leaders have reproached him for his inopportuneness and his companies, deplored the image of fanaticism he projects and even asked him to “throw West and Fuentes off his side” because “they are not the best of companions”. Yet the polls are not knocking him down either. 17% of Americans believe their dinner with the supremacist streamer was a mistake, but 47% are neither for nor against. 40% of the adults, mostly Republicans, but also some Democrats, still have a good opinion of him.
The rejection is apparently centered on progressive Americans, who see white supremacism as one of the great current threats to the United States. So does the FBI. It is the same Democratic sector that finds Trump’s token concessions to QAnon, the conniving macro-organization that sees Democrats as cannibalistic pedophiles and waits for the former president to retake the White House, incomprehensible, while Joe Biden and leaders of the center and left of the United States are tried and executed.
Besides controversial dinners, what else happens at the Trump House? According to the American media, the former president plays golf at his club every day before going to the Oval Office bis. He usually goes to work after lunch. At night, he appears in the hallways where his guests pay to dine and greet him. When he retires to his private quarters, they applaud him. Weddings and other events are also held at Mar-a-Lago. Everything is good for finances.
Another part of his agenda is taken up by the meetings he arranges with dignitaries or foreign officials (already during his time as head of government he invited his counterparts there, such as the Chinese Xi Jinping), businessmen, analysts, famous commentators and various referees. to discuss current affairs in the country. It’s another way to feel like president, leader AND candidate at the same time: the meetings have intensified since he presented his candidacy, which translates in his environment as an attempt to keep abreast of the political, economic and international pulse , and enjoy arguments for election strategy.
Those not seen around the mansion are many of his former White House associates or those he recruited in his later stage, when he convinced many to stay by his side, thinking his dissertation on electoral fraud would expired. would reassert himself as president. During the transfer of power, there was a kind of fiction in this sense. Until January 5, 2021, after all the frustrated attempts to prove fraud and leading up to Biden’s confirmation as head of government and the attack on the Capitol, the fantasy endured. The Republican team didn’t even bother to organize the move in advance or manage government grants for outgoing presidents to set up their civilian offices and pay their new employees. The procedures were done at the last minute. Apparently, Trump aides wanted to charge the particular Mar-a-Lago Oval Office for those funds. But it didn’t slip.
Source: La Verdad
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