re: #122 JordanRules

Philip Rucker ✔
@PhilipRucker
Literally every Washington power player — Democratic and Republican, past and present — is at McCain’s funeral, except the sitting president, who is tweeting his grievances about the DOJ and FBI.

9:17 AM - Sep 1, 2018

I have a feeling Trump is being eaten alive by not being at McCain’s funeral.

There were always stories of how hard he tried to be accepted in New York city as a big man power player. It never happened and they say that upset him so.

Maybe in a way running for President was a way to put himself on the map and as a “fuck you” to New York by saying, see I can be something, I am popular I am the Republican candidate for President.

And then he won and he probably thought, I am somebody now…America will always see me as great because all presidents are seen as great.

And for one and three-quarters of a year he has been hammered. And now, he isn’t even invited to a funeral of a man Trump saw as lesser than him.

He can’t be around the other recent presidents and all the Washington power people.

He is being rejected in DC like he was rejected in New York city as not being a player, not part of the power grid.

Yeah, it has to sting. He has to be wondering what can he do to be accepted as a great man, a great leader.

And that is scary to me. Because he may just get pissed off enough about how he is seen that he does something truly crazy to try to be someone.