Donald Trump did not need a visit from the ghost of Christmas future to get a glimpse of what his life will be like very soon.
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Trump still mentally exists in the world of his first term, when cable news channels slapped a news logo on his tweets and the breathless anchors of all three cable networks stopped everything and read his statements live on air.
The national environment has completely changed since 2017.
Trump spent the first part of the Christmas holiday taking action because he was ignored.
After his first outburst earned him no media coverage and even less attention from the American people, on Christmas Eve, instead of being with his family and loved ones, Donald Trump was still trying to get attention.
Trump has posted more than 200 times and counting on his social media site. Most of his messages are propaganda and rebroadcasts from other people about how great the economy is, at least in his opinion.
Trump’s Christmas Eve message, which should be considered a second version of a Merry Christmas message after the first was massively ignored, attempted to push the boundaries further to get everyone to respond and pay attention, and you can almost see the desperation between the lines.
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