1. Twitter. You’re caught in a cycle of codependency. If Trump isn’t appearing cuz he’s dying - we’ll know soon. Go about your lives. But think like a narcissist for a minute. He knows he’s wished ill. He could be not coming out so you all get excited & then bam he appears...
2. ...and it gaslights all of you. He’s most likely somewhere in the middle of dying and pulling some kind of stunt. Yes. It’s normal to wonder what’s up with a sick president who loves the camera who hasn’t shown his face in days. He gets off on you wondering. He’s owning you.
3. Yes. With every wonder we show the world that we know he is absurd and dangerous. But we can’t do anything about it (except vote blah blah) so our personal vigilance CHANGES NOTHING. The press should stay on it because he’s a National Security Risk. But it sucks because once
4. again the press just doing their job is getting him off. They’ll focus a camera on a Marine outside of the West Wing all day because Trump knows it will take away from all other scandals and all triumphs for Biden/Harris. But you, personally, stop wondering. You aren’t the
5. press. You’re people giving him exactly what he wants. We know where he is. In the White House somewhere between mildly ill and dying and roided up. Xo
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