{"id":52594,"date":"2022-04-16T12:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T19:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52594"},"modified":"2022-04-16T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T22:50:24","slug":"wannabe-kingmaker-donald-trumps-latest-endorsement-reveals-his-big-fat-flaming-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52594","title":{"rendered":"Wannabe Kingmaker Donald Trump&#8217;s Latest Endorsement Reveals His Big Fat Flaming Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since being evicted from the White House by the American people fourteen months ago, Donald Trump has desperately <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52405\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struggled (and failed) to maintain some sort of relevance<\/a><\/strong>. For the most part he&#8217;s done that by whining about having lost to Joe Biden, someone he <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46285\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">characterized as a &#8220;mentally deficient socialist&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>; relentlessly <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52563\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lying about the election being rigged<\/a><\/strong>; and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52550\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">holding cult rallies<\/a><\/strong> populated by his glassy-eyed disciples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Wannabe Kingmaker Donald Trump's Latest Endorsement Reveals His Big Fat Flaming Ego%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52594\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-dictator-e1542482428121.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39715\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another dull tool in Trump&#8217;s shed is his ability to hand out cheap endorsements for Republican candidates who adoringly kiss his &#8230; let&#8217;s say ring. He does this frequently because it costs him nothing. Meanwhile he won&#8217;t donate any of the millions of dollars he has collected from his gullible followers to help those candidates. The endorsements are all nearly identical pronouncements that the candidate loves guns, hates immigrants, and is devoted to his anti-American <em>&#8220;America First&#8221;<\/em> agenda.<\/p>\n<p>This week Trump announced in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realLizUSA\/status\/1515079898876030985\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweet<\/a><\/strong> (of course) that he is endorsing <em>&#8220;Hillbilly Elegy&#8221;<\/em> author, J.D. Vance, for the Senate in Ohio. And his statement outlining why he chose to back this particular candidate in a crowded Republican primary says more about Trump than Vance. As usual, to Trump everything is about Trump. For instance, Trump said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Like some others, J.D. Vance may have said some not so great things about me in the past, but he gets it now, and I have seen that in spades.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump is being gentle when saying that Vance said <em>&#8220;some not so great things&#8221;<\/em> about him. What Vance said was compiled nicely in an anti-Vance ad in 2021 by the conservative <em>&#8220;Club for Growth.&#8221;<\/em> The ad merely reported Vance&#8217;s own words about Trump. Such as&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him [&#8230;] As somebody who doesn\u2019t like Trump, I might have to hold my nose and vote for Hillary Clinton [&#8230;] I didn&#8217;t vote for Trump because I can&#8217;t stomach Trump. I think that he&#8217;s noxious [&#8230;] Him being really outrageous and offensive.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/onvB7A3SXcY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ad goes on to display tweets that Vance has since deleted saying that Trump is <em>&#8220;reprehensible,&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;an idiot.&#8221;<\/em> And yet, Trump is now endorsing Vance. According to Trump, here&#8217;s why&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is not an easy endorsement for me to make because I like and respect some of the other candidates in the race \u2014 they\u2019ve said great things about \u2018Trump\u2019 and, like me, they love Ohio and love our country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Trump is affirming that the primary requirement for earning a Trump endorsement is that the candidates say <em>&#8220;great things about \u2018Trump\u2019 and, like me.&#8221;<\/em> That won&#8217;t surprise anyone with even the slightest familiarity with Trump and his malignant narcissism.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy, however, to see why he might have had trouble settling on Vance. The field of GOP senate candidates in Ohio is a buzzing hive of Trump-fluffers, all vying for his notoriously short attention span. Among them&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Josh Mandel:<\/strong> Endorsed by Michael Flynn, Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), Sen. Mike Lee (UT), Rep. Madison Cawthorn (NC), Jenna Ellis (Trump Lawyer), Mark Levin (Fox News)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jane Timken:<\/strong> Endorsed by Kristi Noem (governor of South Dakota), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (WV), Sen Joni Ernst (IA), Sen. Deb Fischer (NE), Sen. Rob Portman (OH), Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY), Kellyanne Conway<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vance himself has already been endorsed by the QAnon brain trust: Sen. Josh Hawley (MO), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL), Sebastian Gorka, Tucker Carlson (Fox News), and Donald Trump Jr. What&#8217;s more, Vance fulfills another Trump prerequisite by being a TV celebrity whose platform is wafer thin. That is, when it isn&#8217;t downright repulsive. Such as his recent declaration on Steve Bannon&#8217;s <em>&#8220;War Room&#8221;<\/em> where he said that <em>\u201cI gotta be honest with you, I don\u2019t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance in February: \u201cI gotta be honest with you, I don\u2019t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ohsen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ohsen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ohleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ohleg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SpdqQKjKmJ\">pic.twitter.com\/SpdqQKjKmJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shannonrwatts\/status\/1515085977282220032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Which makes this a good time to remind people that Vance, or whoever the GOP nominee is, has a Democratic opponent, Tim Ryan, who can use your help. Trump&#8217;s endorsement of Vance included a swipe at Ryan calling him a <em>&#8220;defective candidate&#8221;<\/em> who is somehow both <em>&#8220;weak&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;dangerous.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;re beating JD Vance in the polls by one point. But we&#39;re expecting this endorsement to bring a new wave of outside money and attacks. <\/p>\n<p>We can win this race and flip Ohio blue, but only if we have the resources to fight back. Rush a donation now: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qzkuU333fM\">https:\/\/t.co\/qzkuU333fM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimRyan\/status\/1515082406860054537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. 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For the most part he&#8217;s done that by whining about having lost to Joe Biden, someone he characterized as a &#8220;mentally deficient socialist&#8221;; relentlessly lying about the election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,1200,16],"tags":[554,1140,1461,1462],"class_list":["post-52594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-j-d-vance","tag-tim-ryan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-dictator-e1542482428121.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dGi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57887,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57887","url_meta":{"origin":52594,"position":0},"title":"Trump Posts His &#8216;Proof&#8217; of Election Fraud in Georgia that Actually Proves Election Integrity","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/30\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The last presidential election was nearly three years ago. 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