Donald Trump has said he won’t stand again in 2028 if he loses the US election. Please don’t threaten us with a good time, Donald! His heart just isn’t in this contest, it seems. Tomorrow he will be addressing an event at the headquarters of the Mosack group in North Carolina. According to the company website, it offers “premium” solutions for plumbing products. Metaphor alert: is his campaign going down the pan?
Trump’s ego may be telling him not to try too hard to win. With six weeks to go, he has never adjusted to the surprise and sheer effort of trying to beat an insurgent Kamala Harris rather than doddery Joe Biden. Losing to a woman, I imagine, would be all the more humiliating if he thought he had thrown himself headlong into the campaign. Not that he would ever admit defeat, only that the election was “rigged”. But being a two-time loser would be deeply unsettling for the world’s biggest narcissist.
