Is this how Donald Trump’s handlers have been keeping him out of public view?
Donald Trump’s favorite thing to do in the political realm is to hold rallies and give narcissistic speeches to his fawning fans. But in the fifteen months since he was booted from office, he’s held very few rallies. He’s also done very few mainstream media interviews, and even fewer of them on camera.
Trump’s disappearing act has been sufficient enough that it’s somewhat notable when he does occasionally actually surface in public. When he does pop up, he generally comes off as so cognitively vacant – such a shadow of who he was fifteen months ago – it suggests that his handlers have been trying to keep him out of the public eye for fear that the general public will figure out he’s nowhere near being in cognitive shape to run in 2024.
If so, the question has been how they’ve managed to convince him to hold so few rallies. Weeks ago Trump announced in an interview that if his health goes bad, it could be a reason he won’t run in 2024. This seems to be how his handlers are laying the groundwork now to eventually break the news to him that he won’t be running when the time comes. But how are they getting him to hold so few rallies in the meantime? The answer may have something to do with tomatoes. No, really.
In a deposition months ago – something that his handlers can’t keep him out of – Donald Trump testified that he’s afraid people will throw tomatoes at him when he’s in public, and that he could “be killed” by such a tomato attack. Again, he actually said this. He also claimed that he fears being on the front end of fatal attacks from bananas and pineapples as well.
This was within the context of Trump testifying in a case brought by protesters who say they were physically assaulted by Trump’s security guards years ago. So nominally at least, he was arguing that he preemptively called for violence in case the protesters tried throwing tomatoes at him. But that’s weak even for him. Even a bad lawyer could have prepped him with a more compelling line of defense than one involving the attack of the killer tomatoes.
It’s enough to make you wonder if these are the kinds of scenarios that Trump’s handlers have been feeding him in order to scare him out of doing more rallies. “It’s dangerous out there sir, protesters can show up to your rallies and throw tomatoes at you, and as you know, that can be fatal.”
No cognitively competent person would actually fall for that, of course. But then that’s kind of the point, isn’t it? In his periodic public appearances these days, Trump comes off as being so far gone, his handlers could actually convince him to lower his own public profile by making him scared of killer tomatoes. And don’t forget bananas. People slip on banana peels, right? This is all so absurd.
