He needed his meth fix.

campaign and build things. That's why we get more rallies and "the wall." It's all he's got.

and stroking, probably because he actually knows hes in the top 5 for most hated person in the world next to Putin and Lil Kim Jong-un
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He is compensating by obsessively and repetitively talking about and lying about his Electoral College win.

This is not the point of this thread, but Soapdish is one of my top 5 favorite movies. Whoopi plays the head writer of the soap who at one point kvetches in exasperation, "I can't get my actors to play coma, they find it limiting. . . . . ".

Funny movie.

I don't remember that scene. I'll have to try and find that movie to stream.

hudsucker proxy -- the tim robbins character becomes a hit with the media after inventing the hula hoop, and gets laughter and headlines with the accidental one-liner, "i didn't expect all this hoop-la!"

later, when the company is on the skids and the media turns on him, he tries his old "i didn't expect all this hoop-la" line again and it falls completely flat.

donnie trying to relive the election and hillary and the campaign reminds me of that scene -- a failing man desperately trying to go back to the last time he felt loved.