Just a few days ago, Mister Trump seemed at the end of his tether. Fatigue. Worn on the rope. The voice had become slurpier than an old packet of spaghetti.
At times, Donald Trump’s behavior became erratic. He was rambling. During a rally, Monsieur started dancing like a robot for 40 minutes, in front of a stunned crowd.
On Halloween, Trump dressed up as a garbage collector. Staggering with fatigue, he had difficulty opening the door of the garbage truck. It almost looked like… Joe Biden.
It doesn’t matter. Yesterday, when celebrating his victory, candidate Trump seemed reconstituted. Well, almost. Around 2:30 a.m., he gave a rather rambling speech about Elon Musk, space, China, the need to protect geniuses and all sorts of weird things.
It’s true. He didn’t talk about the miraculous effect of birdsong in calming birds. Patience, maybe it will come…
Howard University students watch election results live during a party at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2023. (Nathan Howard/AP)
For the Democrats, the defeat promises to be painful. At the start of the campaign, Kamala Harris focused on joy. Then, in desperation, she played the apocalypse card. She called Trump a fascist. Racist.
Basically, the Democrats have never found the right response to the Trump phenomenon. They never understood why their opponent appealed so much to half of the voters. Him, a compulsive liar! Between 2017 and 2021, the Washington Post estimates that he has lied or falsified the truth more than 30,500 times!
In Philadelphia, the day before the vote, host Oprah Winfrey spoke before Kamala Harris. She took the opportunity to warn the crowd. “If Trump wins, we may not have the opportunity to vote again.”
The Democrats will have done everything to provoke Trump. Personally. At the entrance to Palm Beach, very close to the former president’s residence, an election advertisement reads:
— Welcome to Palm Beach, the criminal’s place of residence.
Democratic presidential running mate Kamala Harris watches an event monitor from backstage, just before taking the stage for her final campaign rally, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Philadelphia. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Whose fault is it? Last night, the Democrats’ electoral collapse was slow. A real torture. The more the evening progressed, the more hope diminished. The Republican victory in Pennsylvania, a little before 2 a.m., was the final blow.
With his victory in Wisconsin, Mr. Trump crossed the threshold of 270 voters needed to win the presidency. Earlier on election night, he had his hands in other swing states, like Georgia and North Carolina.
In the end, could the Democrats have done things differently?
The list of celebrities who supported Kamala Harris is impressive.
Taylor Swift, LeBron James, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Marc Anthony, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tyler Perry, Usher, Lizzo, Eminem, Bad Bunny, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Harrison Ford, Stevie Wonder, Maggie Rogers, Willie Nelson, Billie Heilish, Jennifer Lopez and more, otherwise we’ll spend the day there.
So much glitter to get so little? Yesterday, the Democratic candidate was unable to reach rural America, small-town America, retiree America, working-class America and so on.
An American flag waves in the wind as a voter leaves a polling location after voting on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Dearborn, Michigan (David Goldman/AP)
What will a second term for Donald Trump look like? In his speeches, Monsieur describes the United States as a “broken” country. He even goes so far as to speak of a “country occupied” by illegal immigrants.
The Donald promised a lot of things. He even pledged to be a “dictator” for a day. “Time to close the border and restart oil exploitation,” he explained…
More seriously, Donald Trump is talking about a mass deportation of illegal immigrants. He wants to quickly end the war in Ukraine. He is also considering tariffs on all exports.
During a rally held in Pennsylvania, Mr. introduced himself as the superhero “Tariff-Man.” “The word Tariff is the most beautiful in the whole dictionary,” he explained. More beautiful even than the words “love” and “respect”.”
Election workers examine ballots at the Denver Division of Elections in Denver on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Chet Strange/AP)
The good news is that the election campaign has ended. The bad news is that the division of Americans will not disappear any time soon.
You know things have gone too far when even the death of a squirrel takes a political turn.
Last week, that’s what happened when New York State wildlife officers “seized” a squirrel from an animal shelter. The animal, nicknamed Peanutwas euthanized after biting an officer. From there, everything started to go wrong.
Supporters watch returns during an election watch party for former Republican President Donald Trump’s campaign trail at the Palm Beach Convention Center, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Evan Vucci/AP)
The Republican Party has transformed the squirrel into a symbol. As a martyr to evil Democratic officials. “RIP Peanutthe Trump campaign shared on TikTok. We will avenge you at the polling stations.”
A Republican elected official from New York State took up the matter. “Democrats invade your house to take a squirrel, but they look the other way when criminals cross our border.” (2)
The latest news is that the offices of the Department of Wildlife and the residences of senior officials have been the subject of around ten bomb calls in two days…
In desperation, all they have to do is call on the superhero Donald Trump?
A young girl outside election night at Howard University, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Washington. (Terrance Williams/AP)
Sources
(1) How Trump Used the «Red Mirage» in Vote Counting to Deny his Loss, The Washington Post, 5 novembre 2024.
(2) How the Death of a Celebrity Squirrel Became a Republican Rallying Cry, The New York Times, 4 novembre 2024.
Avec Associated Press
