19.5 million people watched the Oscars on TV. Movie stars. Costumes. Big music and dance routines.
Trump wasn't the center of attention.
That was unbearable.
Maybe it is political genius. Maybe it is a debilitating case of narcissism. Maybe it is just workmanlike political positioning and pleasing your base.
Maybe Trump is sad that he was left out. Maybe he was angry about it.
Maybe Trump "won" the exchange. After all, he got to slam Jimmy Kimmel; he got to mis-name and insult George Stephanopolis; he got to call the show woke and unfair.
It was a big party and he wasn't invited, so he dissed the party, calling it disjointed, boring, and low-rated.
Donald Trump acts like a teenager with a bad attitude. A juvenile delinquent. The kind of kid who is in trouble with the law because he vandalizes other people's things and calls people names and who gets complaints from girls because he accidentally-on-purpose touches their breasts or crotches as he crowds past them in the hall. If there is a party going on by the popular kids, and he isn't invited, he sends a stink bomb to the party. He is incorrigible and breaks the law and doesn't seem to care. He is the rich kid, the kid with a cool car, the kid whose family has far more money that the teachers or the principal will ever have. He is untouchable and knows it and acts like it.
It is amazing to me that Republicans of generally good character tolerate him and even like him, but they do. Whatever happened to the party of Reagan, Dole, Romney? Would they raise their sons to be like Trump?
And part of why it works for Trump isthat he is, indeed, the center of attention. He's a star, and when you are a star they let you, as he said in the Access Hollywood revelation. Women let you. Men support you. Voters vote for you. Biden was doing whatever he was doing back at the White House. Maybe something useful, but who knows?
We know what Trump was doing. He was throwing a stink bomb and millions of people noticed.
But Donald was watching!🤪