Trump falls from the throne – VG

The shining star in the Republican Party at the moment is recently re-elected Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Donald Trump is still a painful loser.

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The sun rises on DeSantis, but the shadow falls on Trump.

DeSantis won by a landslide. But in another election this week, things went much worse than expected for Republicans.

Now many party members dare to blame Trump. Conservative media are also taking the magazine out of their mouths.

Trump’s favorite New York Post grabbed two front pages this week that angered the former president. First, a beaming DeSantis photo titled DeFuture.

In other words: DeSantis is the man of the future, and Trump is history.

Things got worse for Trump the next day, when the newspaper published an unflattering photo montage of Trump with a play on the words of a children’s rhyme about Humpty Dumpty (Little Tramp): “Little Tramp is sitting on a shelf, Little Tramp has fallen to the ground.” Or, as The Post wrote, “Trumpty Dumpty: Don (who couldn’t build a great wall) had a big fall.”

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who owns the New York Post, Wall Street Journal and Fox News, among others, has served as an important supporter of Donald Trump. But it was, as the Financial Times describes it, a marriage of convenience. Sometimes the relationship was stormy and now it’s over.

Trump’s hint that he will announce his third presidential campaign shows that he does not understand that even if voters like him and his policies, they are now looking to the future, not the past, writes Salina Zito in the New York Post.

Dave Mihall, an election strategist who was involved in Trump’s campaign in Ohio in 2016 and 2020, says frankly that the Trump era is over:

It’s time for him to retire. I see golf courses and a rocking chair for him in the future.

The Wall Street Journal wrote in a leadership position that Trump failed in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022: – He led the Republican Party into one political failure after another.

Of course, the attacks did not go unnoticed at Trump’s mansion, Mar-a-Lago.

– NewsCorp, which consists of Fox, Wall Street Journal and the now-no-great New York Post, all belong to Governor Ron de Sanctimonios, a Mediterranean Republican governor with a good public relations apparatus, Trump wrote in his response.

He used to call DeSantis DeSanctimonious, because he was used to giving nicknames to rivals and opponents.

Trump thinks DeSantis should be grateful. Trump has made his success. Trump who orchestrated DeSantis’ desperate campaign for governor in 2018, according to Trump himself.

Now even Trump claims that, as president, he interfered directly in the Florida governor’s election. This is how he got the credit for DeSantis’ victory.

“I sent it to the FBI and prosecutors and ballot theft was stopped immediately,” he wrote in the Truth Social.

No one has ever claimed that there was cheating during a gubernatorial election. DeSantis won the election by a slim margin, 0.4 percent. On Tuesday, he received 60 percent of the vote in Florida.

David Urban, a Trump adviser, says Republicans have followed Donald Trump over the edge. Republican Peter King, a former congressman from Long Island, has long supported Trump. Now he tells the New York Times that the former president can no longer be the face of the Republican Party. The party cannot turn into a personal cult.

This week, Trump also did the rare act of apologizing.

Not for anything he said or did himself, of course. But because “Fake News Media” had written that Trump was furious the day after the election and blamed his wife Melania and Sean Hannity for poor results on Fox News. This is fake news, pulled out of thin air, Trump writes. Who is still apologizing for something that should have happened.

On Tuesday evening, Trump announced that he would make a significant announcement. He must run for president in 2024.

Many GOP members believe Trump should wait for the announcement. But everything indicates that the press conference will go ahead as planned and at prime time.

Ron DeSantis did not say what his plans are for 2024. The question is whether he dares to challenge Trump?

The former president has a solid base of loyal supporters who want him back. But it is not certain that the path is open for Trump’s third nomination. And if DeSantis signs up, more people can.

Trump has been written off by many as a politician in the past, both in the pre-2016 campaign and after storming Congress in January of last year. He put all these predictions to shame.

Trump still spends much of his time talking about the election two years ago. He is lost in memories of what he claims were a stolen election. There are hardly any painful memories and misconceptions that voters will hear about when they elect a president in two years’ time.

But for Donald Trump, considering it old news is much worse than being caught spreading fake news. Trump has always been interested in controlling the news image. It is now in danger of becoming as obsolete as yesterday’s news.

Politically, DeSantis represents much of the same former president. But the 44-year-old represents a younger generation. Not least, today De Santis looks like a winner. Unlike those who conjure up great victories for no reason.