This is the plaque for the presidential portrait gallery for Joe Biden.

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      Donald Trump, to me at least, seems like a very simple person. I have found that I can predict a lot of what he’ll do by just keeping in mind that he’s an egotistical simpleton who wants people to worship him. He doesn’t care about anybody but himself, and he doesn’t think very far into the future. But he gets hung up on the past a lot.

      Biden beat him. There was a popularity contest, and America picked Biden. Biden has never lost to Trump, except one debate that most people forgot about already. That’s something that Trump will never be able to change.

      Trump probably thinks of the shooter as a loser who couldn’t even hit what he was aiming at. If anything, the shooting made Trump more popular. Trump won and the shooter lost.

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        Here’s another thing about Trump.

        Trump was in New York real estate and construction from the start. There’s no way to do that without dealing with the Mafia.

        Any smart boss is going to take one look at Donnie and step away. A boss doesn’t want to be around a loudmouth who can’t be trusted to keep his mouth shut.

        So the mobsters Donnie interacted with were the low level goons the bosses could throw under the bus if anything went wrong.

        All of Donnie’s schemes are crude because that’s what he thinks are clever schemes. His smartest mentor, Roy Cohn, died too soon to teach Donnie how to actually act like a winner.

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          Cohn also probably couldn’t and wouldn’t. Cohn was great at what he did, he died deeply in debt to the federal government just like he wanted. But Cohn had intelligence that while subservient to the myriad chips on his shoulder, was real. Cohn could actually play people off each other and make people who hated him like him. And most of all Cohn could resist the urge to be in the spotlight if he even felt it at all. He had the cunning you only get when you have had to hide. And that’s how he was able to get what may very well be the closest person he ever had to a real romantic partner, Joe McCarthy, to be the face of the red and lavender scares and then to take the fall when the backlash came.

          You can’t make a rich, privileged in every way, golden boy narcissist into Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn had distress tolerance and could use it when he needed to.

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        Trump has actually awkwardly praised the shooter, saying he was incredibly smart, which is why it was so hard to stop him.