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'Red Caesar' should order the tossed salad [1]

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Date: 2023-10-07  

Man at Trump rally is asked why he supports Donald Trump: “I like Trump as a person. Most importantly, I like his Christian values.” Kayfabe as the dramaturgy of false consciousness will seemingly never end until the Emperor does a strip-tease.

The former president didn't have to attend the civil fraud case targeting his company's business in New York, but he chose to do so, apparently because he had a plan to raise money on the courthouse's front steps. But his plan didn't go exactly as he expected, and he even ducked out early.

Trump had clear expectations that he would be able to make this case a media spectacle which would work to his benefit, according to a Salon piece.

www.rawstory.com/…

After three days, however, even Trump quietly concluded that this was less "Apprentice: Season One" and more the season where Leeza Gibbons beat Ian Ziering for the prize of never having to talk to Donald Trump again. (I'm assuming. Like nearly every American, I didn't watch it.) Unable to generate interest in his incoherent ravings outside the courtroom doors, Trump turned tail and fled back to Florida. Hopefully, his body being ejected from New York is a precursor to the end of all his commercial business in the state.

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But the truth is that Trump's efforts to hijack the court proceedings were failing even before Matt Gaetz made his move (to remove McCarthy). I watched the cable news coverage Monday morning, as Trump made his way to court. Initially, the networks were game to turn this into a 3-ring circus. CNN even had the drone camera following Trump's motorcade to court. There was breathless commentary as various players walked by the camera banks into the courtroom, with Trump's people clearly under instructions to grin for the cameras if this were a red carpet at an awards show.

Then the supposedly big moment of Trump's arrival came, and the whole pageant fell apart. Trump only got a minute or two into his diatribe, when both MSNBC and CNN realized it was brutally boring TV.

www.salon.com/...

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