Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Try on this theory for size: Donald Trump is getting ready to cut and run


Georgie Porgie 
Pudding and Pie
Kissed the Girls
And made them cry
When the Girls
Came out to play
Georgie Porgie
Ran away.

Donald Trump seems to be taking his cues these days from Georgie Porgie of nursery rhyme fame.

"I have great respect for women," Trump says, while from the other side of his mouth he regularly disses women in general and Fox News personality Megyn  Kelley in particular, not least of all by tweeting "I refuse to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo because that would be politically incorrect. Instead I only call her a lightweight reporter!" Sounds like he's trying to make her cry.

And yet, when he faces the challenge of possibly get asked tough question by her in the next Republican debate, he announces that he's not coming. Which is pretty much akin to running away.

That's cowardice in the face of of a woman, some say, an updated version of Georgie Porgie-ism. More than enough has been said of the question that if Trump is too wimpy to stand up to a single woman's questions in a debate, how will he stand up to entities ranging from Russia to ISIS?

Let me try a different thought on you. It's only a theory. But bear with me for a few paragraphs.

Donald Trump is desperately looking for the exit door. But without appearing to look for the exit door.

He started his run for president, my theory goes, on a lark — a nifty way to call attention to himself and build his Trump brand.

But the "brand" image is that of a tough businessman who never backs down. So he can't just pull a Sarah Palin, similar to Palin quitting the governorship of Alaska during her term. He'd look too wimpy to do that. Instead, he's been trying to insult his way out of his candidacy by losing to another Republican. Any Republican.

All his putdowns, from calling Mexican immigrants rapists, to insults to Kelly and Carly Fiorina, have actually been desperate cries for help. "Somebody please get me out of here," Trump has been obliquely whining and whimpering. 

"I know. Maybe if I called Jeb Bush 'low energy.' Maybe if I tell the truth and call Ted Cruz a liar. Maybe if I..."

Nothing seems to have worked. The more childishly petulant he becomes, and the more he pouts like a six year old who isn't allowed a second helping of dessert, the higher his poll numbers have gone. So now he's trying a new tack. He's going to bow out of a high profile opportunity, and hope that this will end his candidacy by enabling other candidates get more attention to pull ahead of him.

Somehow it all reminds me of a wisecrack that many years ago was attributed sotto voce to Marilyn Monroe during the making of an ill-fated film called The Misfits, and later scripted for a much lesser actress, Anna Nicole Smith, in an even worse film, ironically called Illegal Aliens.

"Who do I have to screw to get out of this movie?"

Bend over, Donald!



6 comments:

tony in san diego said...

I agree with you. When he accepted Palin's endorsement, then I know he was fucking with us. And enjoying dragging assholes like Junior Falwell and people with him! But yeah, he needs and exit strategy. He doesn't want to be President: if he is President, he can't do whatever he wants, and he wont put up with that.

Cirze said...

I've been saying the same thing for some time now.

After all, he got into it to get a good deal (and publicity for his next TV show).

And they've certainly offered him several by now.

Love you!

Anonymous said...

Your take on Georgie Porgie is based on a neanderthal machismo tenet based on obtaining play from girls. Leaving the competition behind in the dust is not the same as"Running Away" like a coward you are implying! Most George's can pick who they want to play with because there not cavemen.




Ed said...

It appears that the author expects his/her spouse to keep coming back for more abuse.

The New York Crank said...
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The New York Crank said...

Anonymous and Ed,

I'm not sure I follow the logic, if there is any, of either of your comments, but I'm leaving them up as a tribute to the Dada movement hatched about a century ago by Marcel Duchamp.

Or as somebody didn't quite put it: "I have no idea what you're saying, but I'll fight for your right to speak unintelligibly.

Yours with extreme crankiness,
The New York Crank