The day before Trump

Donnie Convict gets sworn into office (again) tomorrow, as if him swearing an oath has any meaning. It’s going to be a bumpy start.

  • The inauguration has moved indoors, leaving tens of thousands of MAGA faithful out of the party, literally out in the cold. They’re not happy about that.
  • The price of eggs is about to skyrocket. Bird flu is forcing egg producers to destroy their hens by the millions. Best case, egg prices triple and MAGA loses their minds. Worst case, H5N1 mutates into something humans can catch and pass along, ushering in another pandemic.
  • Two days into Donnie’s reign, the US will hit the debt ceiling limit. Donnie will either have to shut down the government’s operations or convince Congress to raise the ceiling. The fiscal hard cores of MAGA will resist.
  • Tik-Tok is shutting down in the US, making a lot of younger folks very unhappy. Donnie may be able to reverse that, given that he’s willing to sacrifice national security for his ego and profits.
  • Mass deportation is scheduled to begin in Chicago either Monday or Tuesday. Tom Homan and team are all lathered up to put some kids in cages again. Maybe they’ll just cage them and leave them in the cold, outdoors. It’s going to be five below zero in Chicago tomorrow night, which should make the deporter-in-chief quite happy. Good cruelty quotient there.

Even with all those bumps, Donnie may be happy. Overnight he’s made a paper profit of $25B (billion!) on a new grift – a Trump-branded cryptocurrency debut. He’s found a new way to monetize his popularity with the MAGA idiots. Donnie may be able to cash out his 80% stake in the crypto vaporware quickly, in which case it will crash around the idiots who “invested” in it.

Corruption. Cruelty. Incompetence. Hypocrisy. It’s gonna be a long four years.