Trump Is a Sand Dune

Because he took too much attention away from Trump.

     Yesterday, Trump decided to hold a rally in Glendale, AZ, where Vice President Harris and Governor Tim Walz had held the largest political event in Arizona's history (Notably, no one said that after Trump's rally, even though it featured Roadkill aficionado Robert F. Kennedy, Jr).

      Not only did it fall flatter than a tortilla, but when the Arizona Police Union head (whose name, ironically, is also Harris) went on a little longer than Trump expected, he publicly booted him off the stage when the natives got restless. Trump may be incipiently demented but he still knows how to read a room and he knew the guy was losing the crowd for him.

     But it wasn't just that. It was the fact that the union chief was taking too much time and attention from him. If you look at the longer clip, you'll see Trump shuffling from side to side like an impatient five year-old at a wedding  He wanted to be back behind that podium sucking all the oxygen out of that room.

      Mary Trump, his niece, has been saying of late that her uncle Donald is a bottomless black hole of need. And this is abundantly true. This is the same guy who pushed aside a head of state at a G20 summit so he could assume his "rightful" place in the front row. This is the same guy who, moments after getting Chris Christie's endorsement in 2016, pushed him off that stage and said, "You go down."

      And, like Mary Trump says, once that flattery and adulation gets sucked into that gaping hole where his soul should be, nothing remains of it, not even the light. And the minute he stops getting that adulation, he begins to wilt.

      I have an analogy of my own. Imagine standing on top of a sand dune. And you pour a pitcher of water into it. What would happen? It would disappear without a trace, leaving not even a wet spot. And you could pour any number of water pitchers into that dune and it would keep gobbling that water and giving nothing back in return.

      That's Trump in a nutshell. He gobbles attention and flattery like a school of piranhas. And that, obviously, is the last guy we need back in the White House. When someone talks too long, he quickly gets fidgety and impatient, like a little boy bored at a grownup event who'd rather be outside beating up the neighborhood 98 lb weakling.

     You need further proof of this? What you see below is a press picture taken from behind the stage in Glendale yesterday. That's senatorial candidate Kari Lake and look at the message someone sent her.

     This is the high tech version of the cane used in vaudeville.