It wouldn’t take genius insight to guess that Trump would not react well to President Biden being all presidenty and talking about that horrible day when Trump tried to stay president forever. No, nothing genius about it.

But wouldn’t it have been wonderful to be a fly on the… wouldn’t it have been wonderful to be sitting there beside Trump saying something like; “It must be amazing being president, up there, speaking to an entire nation, as the most important guy, talking about bad stuff that happened, and having people respect you for…

It sounds like Trump didn’t need anyone sitting beside him to drive him crazy, he did just fine himself, according to Newsweek:

Trump had known what was coming, people close to the president told Newsweek. He expected Biden and the media to savage him on the anniversary. Not because he deserved it–close friends and political allies of the former president all say he still angrily rejects any culpability for the January 6 riot—but because, as he told one friend, “it’s all they’ve got.”

Right. Keep telling people that big boy. He’s already gotten infrastructure done and a new tax plan, plus a record number of judges for a first year, that’s a lot more than you in an entire term.

“[Trump said] they can’t talk about anything else because the guy [Biden] is such a disaster,” a Palm Beach friend of the former president told Newsweek.

Everything that doesn’t go Trump’s way is a disaster, listen to him at any point in time.

Originally, Trump had the brilliant idea that he was going to have a press conference, and some of us wish he would’ve gone through with it because that would’ve been a disaster, most likely reminding people how it was that someone could pull that off, one man, one psychosis, nearly toppling democracy, and we’re not out of the woods yet.

But several family members, political allies and friends had all quietly pushed back against that plan, three sources told Newsweek. Daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, as well as son Eric Trump, had misgivings, sources said. On a day in which the media was going all in on the anniversary–treating it with all the historical import, as Vice President Kamala Harris said, of Pearl Harbor and September 11, Trump’s allies told him that no matter what he said, the press would make him look foolish, like a “denier.”

We can hear Ivanka now. “You know dad, they’re going to talk about people getting hurt, all for nothing, that you didn’t have a leg to stand on, all day, people will remember… you’ll just look like a dick, more than usual, maybe you should just skip it?

Too bad. It might’ve been entertaining, almost as entertaining as sitting there while he freaked out.

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