The dancing, joking, story-telling persona that helped lure Donald Trump’s adoring MAGA base has become a casualty of Kamala Harris' campaign, a columnist wrote Friday.
Trump’s rallies have been full of jokes, sometimes cruel nicknames, cutting observations and performance theater that left his crowds charmed.
But, wrote Heather Digby Parton, Harris’ arrival on the scene has killed that side of him.
“Donald Trump isn’t fun anymore,” she stated in Salon.
And she based the revelation on Trump’s emergence from days of Mar-a-Lago isolation to give a news conference Thursday that many commentators described as a chaotic event suggesting a flailing campaign.
“He was dour and angry and frankly is starting to look a whole lot older, just in the past few months,” Parton wrote.
“He's not enjoying himself and it shows and, compared to the excited crowds greeting Harris and Walz this week, this sad, pathetic appearance seemed almost funereal.”
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Parton wrote that the change was fully down to Biden stepping aside and Harris taking the mantle as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate. Even facing possible prison time in four criminal prosecutions hadn’t dampened his spirits as much.
"Donald Trump is in a bad way," she wrote.
Parton went on, “I think he's considering for the first time that he might lose again and he is not psychologically equipped to deal with that reality.
“Sure, he'll fight it and tell his supporters that it was stolen and perhaps even incite more violence. But deep down he knows he might actually lose just as he knows deep down that he lost in 2020. There's a look of panic in his eyes right now.
“If he fails this time he might just break apart at the seams. “
