Two losers on the ticket. Just the thing.
While she gives off creepy crazy person vibes, she has experience as a broadcaster and actually knows how to be presentable on TV. Much better choice than MTG.
Though that’s like saying that it’s better to eat a non-radioactive grenade than a radioactive one. They’re both horrible choices.
I’m recalling how, just a couple weeks before the 2020 election, at a rally in Phoenix Trump basically tossed McSally off of the stage. I asked her in a letter how that felt after she’d carried his water for two years. She didn’t answer.
I’m pretty sure there are states where that isn’t allowed, but I can’t get Mr Google to tell me if Georgia is one (which leads me to think that, alas, it probably is).
FWIW, that’s my take as well.
With an extra helping of he’s way too misogynistic to have a female running mate. In his world, women are for grabbing in the privates, not for working with. I’ll bet most of his supporters agree with that stance.
Maybe he’d pick Omarosa. 
Trump has placed several women high up in Trump org. over the years. You might think that deep down he’s in favor of equality, but of course the real reason is self-serving: he thinks they’ll work twice as hard as men in order to ‘prove’ themselves.
And he can grab them in their privates and fire them from their fancy job if they complain. That’s the Trumply version of a “win-win” situation.
I kind of feel like, for someone who is accused of being a fascist and pandering to fascists, discussing Hitler in any context is probably a bad idea. I mean, even if Trump intended to come out publicly as anti-Hitler, you just know he’d flub it and praise Hitler at some point.
But on the flip side, he’d assume that she “owed him” for letting her run on his ticket, so pussy-grabbing would definitely be on the agenda.
FWIW, as of 2015 or so there was no women’s restroom in the service basement of Trump Tower. I’m assuming there was one for the housekeepers in the laundry area, but there were no accommodations for female security workers or mechanics/ maintenance workers.
I know this because I used to work construction on apartments in those buildings. It wasn’t a problem on large apartments, because the construction work was scheduled so there was always a working bathroom, but sometimes on small apartments this wasn’t possible. When that happened in large apartment complexes, the procedure was to use whatever facilities were available in the building basement.
Except for me in Trump Tower, because they didn’t have a women’s restroom in the basement. So I would have to take the elevator up to the sidewalk and go into the public space to use the restroom there.
Here’s the thing about the public spaces, usually indoor plazas where people can stop and sit at a table to eat lunch, rest, make phone calls, whatever. The buildings only provided them because the city required it, and they attempted to make them as inhospitable as possible. The one at Trump Tower is a black granite cave that features bad piano music played at high volume. As as part of the effort to keep people away, the public restrooms were closed for “cleaning” about 90% of the time. It made peeing a time consuming effort as I had to search out a public restroom, which is a PITA in NYC.
So I mostly just didn’t drink coffee or anything else on the days I had to work there. Luckily, I only did a couple of jobs there.
But I’m not sure how they got away with it, because it was a sure indication that they weren’t hiring women for security or maintenance work. The Trump Organization sucks.
What would have happened if you had used the men’s–just curious? I have done that in case of dire emergency-- for a one-holer, preferably. I’ve only gone into a multi-stall when I was 100% positive no one was in there (like after-hours someplace) and I was desperate.*
Not disputing that the lack of women’s facilities is outrageous and oh-so trumpian.
* Apropos of nothing: the other day I followed an employee into a place that was not open to the public yet (but would be in a few minutes). A security guard came up behind me and said I couldn’t come in until the main doors were unlocked. I said, “I’m having a gastro-intestinal emergency and need to get to the bathroom,” which was a lie. But I could see the choices playing across his face. What if the white-haired granny type has an accident right here on my shoes… Nah, let her in.
Using the men’s was not an option, simply because I would’ve had to get a key or a lock code from security and they wouldn’t give it to me.
To be fair, sometimes when this happened I suspect it’s because the men’s room was such a literal shithole that they were embarrassed to let me see it. That happened once in another building, but in that case they walked me to the restroom used by front desk employees. That was a smaller building, though.
I agree that Trump will prefer a bland white guy who’s incapable of attracting the cameras away from him.
But even he knows that he’s in a weakened position, now. He may have to put aside his preference for the guy-who-blends-into-the-wallpaper, in order to goose up some votes.
My quite-serious guess: it will be Tucker Carlson.
I think this is accurate. However, Trump doesn’t want a VP who will work hard. He wants one who will garner him votes and otherwise stand behind him with an adoring gaze.
I think he may tease the idea of choosing a female–but he’ll never actually do it. He’ll get Nikki Haley and Joni Ernst to work their hearts out for him on the campaign trail—then choose Tucker.
(And again, Trump would prefer a more selfless, adoring guy than Tucker. But he will be desperate for votes—and he knows that the Fox machine can deliver them.)
I agree with this. He’ll dangle whatever options will get him some attention.
Isn’t Tucker Carlson a media type? I think Donnie would feel particularly threatened by someone who knows their way around a camera.
Again, hoping this all becomes moot.
Yes, and yes. But as I was speculating, this time Donald is running a tad scared*, and might put aside his ‘this guy will grab the cameras’ instincts in order to grab extra votes.
And Tucker could deliver them. He’s immensely, startlingly popular with a large chunk of right-wing voters.
* He really, really, REALLY needs to win, this time.
Is he more famous than Hannity? He was the one who had Trump’s ear every night in the White House. It could come down to which one has the biggest audience.
Lest we forget, TFG had a penchant for hiring TV personalities – particularly those from RW media.
Tucker? Hm. Interesting. I’ll just go make myself vomit now.
Even better consider the Trump / Carlson ticket wins and then all the hamberders finally catch up with Donnie & suddenly Tucker Carlson is POTUS.
Instead of vomiting perhaps hara kiri would be a more appropriate response.
This is really important. Until his request to do something unconstitutional is denied. Then he forgets all about the adoring gazes, like they never happened.