My money’s on Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s often standing beside him at rallies lately.
Oh please oh please oh please…
This is a woman who made a point to fondle the crotch of a lifesized cardboard cutout of Donald Trump in front of cameras. So she gets points for loyalty I guess, but I don’t see how she helps Trump get elected. MTG brings in the crazy demographic but Trump already has those people. I would have ruled her out a week or two ago, but Trump doesn’t seem interested in courting Republicans who aren’t on his side. He’s as much told them they can go %#%# themselves.
Maybe he wouldn’t be thinking of demographics so much as geographics.
After all, if he had 11,780 more votes in Georgia in the last election, he would have been that much closer to a second term.
Trump doesn’t think like that. Trump believes he can get elected all by himself with no help. If he needs help, he’s weak in some way. He is weak in no ways. (This is core to his neurosis.) Consequently, he doesn’t need the help. The VP is there to be a loyal, and if necessary expendable, soldier in Trump’s battles.
A rational, experienced politician objectively analyzes his or her strong and weak points, and builds a team that reinforces the strengths and shores up the weaknesses, and a VP pick is part of this. Trump, in his mind, has no weaknesses, so the VP serves another purpose.
This will be doubly true now, after Pence was found to be unloyal and unreliable on 6 Jan. If Pence had been willing to fall on the grenade, Trump thinks, Biden would not have become president and none of the current woes would be happening.
Pick someone so horrific, they won’t dare impeach me.
In that case the perfect choice is Ginny Thomas.
I don’t know if he really believes that. A man who was confident wouldn’t be so angry at “Bird Brain” Haley or feel the need to attack “Ron DeSanctimonious.” A man who was secure wouldn’t threaten to blacklist anyone who donated to his oppositions campaign. Trump attacks not becaue he’s strong, but because he’s extremely insecure. I think Trump made a strategic choices with Pency in 2016 and I think appealing to voters will affect his selection in 2024.
On the flip side, he doesn’t appear interested in uniting the party. You might very well be right.
I have noticed that many of the VP suggestions in this thread are female. Given Trump’s attitudes toward women, do you really think that he would choose a female VP?
Oh, I totally agree. Trump projects confidence not because he is confident, but to cover up the bottomless black hole of terror and insatiable emotional need. But the thing is, I fully believe that not only would he never say this out loud, he cannot ever acknowledge this to himself. He shuts away this part of himself, locks it away, and masks it, even for himself, with a ferociously insistent mantra of “Donny is the best boy, daddy would be proud.” If he ever let that façade slip, especially for himself, then his whole brittle psychology would shatter.
A normal politician would recognize his or her demographic weaknesses, and would shore them up with conscious compensations of various kinds. Trump, though? If you tell him he’s got soft support in, say, the Latino demographic, he instantly, instinctively denies it: “Mexicans love me! Here, take a picture with this taco bowl.” Or if you suggest he’s weak with women, he’ll refuse to accept it, telling you to look at his hot wives, and what about that blond who let him autograph her boob a couple weeks ago.
Which is why I simply cannot accept that he will approach the question of a VP ticketmate using the same calculus as a conventional politician. If it were possible to visit his interior emotional world, it would be a terrifying alien landscape, and he will make decisions in a way that for you and me would be alien and strange. I maintain that he will select a VP solely and entirely on the basis of that person being a completely reliable, and willingly disposable, acolyte in the cult of Trump.
Thing is, how much of what Trump does in an election is decided by Trump himself, and not people who know how to kiss up to a narcissist? I rarely assume Trump makes any decisions himself that aren’t spur of the moment.
We know that, when Trump doesn’t care, he lets others choose for him. That’s what he did with the Supreme Court judges, after all.
I’m quoting both because the second (IMHO) is advised by the first. Trump, because of his attitude towards women, may select a female VP - because to him, they’re automatically weaker and easier to dominate. Which is why he’s so dismissive of ones who are “nasty” to him. I of course could be wrong, but I still would take odds on it, because if he selected a male running mate, he’d probably always be thinking “What would -I- do in his position?”
So he’d almost instinctively expect treachery from even the most supine male running mate (see Pence!), but a female would be almost beneath his notice other than the ever-valued sucking up and looking good elements.
Only if she’s blonde.
True, but he declined to re-appoint Janet Yellen as Fed Chair when her term ran out because he couldn’t dominate her. He appointed a lot of men to positions where he thought he could. He wasn’t always correct, of course.
It seems to me that Trump would not appoint a woman as VP because of his attitudes to women, and because once elected his control over her would be limited, as it proved with Mike Pence.
So who would he appoint? His ability to evaluate personnel is deficient to say the least, and he has seen that he couldn’t trust Pence to be loyal. I don’t think Trump has it in him to trust anyone to have his back, and any VP choice will be in line to take over if Trump falls or is pushed.
Amy Coney Barrett is not blonde.
And two of his four press secretaries were non-blonde women.
The reason he probably will choose a female running mate is:
a. He wants to win
b. He has a gender gap problem
Could be. But I’ll say why I didn’t give this reason in my last post.
If this was true, he’d be known for hiring women almost exclusively.
OK, maybe that would be too weird even for Trump. But when he fired Jeff Sessions, he knew that it was very important to have a compliant AG. And he picked another man.
Of course, if he does pick a woman, it could be for both your reason and mine.
Well, it’d be a poor bet to determine which reprehensible reasons Trump would have for selecting -anyone- for a position. We’d be spoiled for choice, with so many conflicting character flaws fighting for dominance, plus literal twuth by twuth changes in sucking-up.
I really doubt it’ll be what any other political entity would consider a ‘well-reasoned’ choice at least.
It was her shirt, not her boob.
Very Vulgar Views, Vigorously Voicing Vivek?
(Free link. Argument is that instead of being mashed potato to the Presidential entrée, with Trump you want a mini-me to épatez les bourgeoisie, or something).
I could use some of that Sweet VP Money, Airforce 2 for me and the Dachshunds, and you wouldn’t hear a peep from me ever again.
Can I get Switzerland on the phone, please? I got a reference and Authier’s!