One would have thought that it takes a few weeks for a four-year president to appreciate that he won’t be president soon enough, surely by December 15th, and definitely when standing on the Capitol steps on January 20th… Oops.

Apparently, it has taken Trump and his MAGAs nearly six full months to understand that he actually isn’t president anymore, or at least appreciate the “depth” of Joe Biden’s legitimacy. We know that the MAGAs really haven’t yet. Regardless, Biden is so legitimate that he flew across the Atlantic in a big baby blue plane referenced as “Air Force One” and landed in Europe as the unquestioned United States’ President. That had to hurt, especially when Joe appeared so at ease with the role. Perhaps it took the world, embracing Biden as president, for it to sink in for both Trump and the MAGAs.

This is good. They need to “feel” that the election is actually not going to be overturned and Trump reinstated. It is easier to appreciate it viscerally when one sees the president doing his most important duties, i.e. representing American interests abroad.  According to Maggie Habermann:

“This is the event that underscored for people around Trump and the former president himself the fact that he’s not president anymore. This was the kind of event on the world stage, getting enormous attention, that he really enjoyed, that he saw as one of the trappings of the office that he thought spoke to a sense of power and strength… it was the real moment of, ‘Oh, someone else is president and not Donald Trump.'”

Of course, Trump would enjoy the “trappings of the office” and not going about actually getting anything done as president.

“His organization sent an email around yesterday telling everybody he’s more popular than ever before, he’s the leader of the Republican Party. It really seems to matter to him.”

Right. We would like to see whether there was one occasion over the last five years on which he and his organization didn’t say he was more popular than ever before. Oh, well, popular or not, nice that it’s sinking in.

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Jason
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