We know there are at least two Trumps, possibly three. What’s interesting is that over the last year, the Hellmouth has been talking openly about body doubles, and forcing the reference in a nonsensical manner that isn’t funny and doesn’t even make sense in the advertising context, such as in this Booking.com commercial starring Tina Fey. As soon as I saw one, it made me think about which method they were revealing, which I assumed referred to the Six Bidens.
And yet, here is Short Trump on stage with Elon Musk. Musk claims to be 6’2″ but since he lies about pretty much everything, he’s almost certainly shorter than that. While he does appear to be about six inches taller than Amber Heard, all Hollywood heights are exaggerated by two inches, so he’s probably 6’0″.
Which makes it hard to explain how Trump magically grew 4 inches for the President Carter funeral, where he can be seen standing next to the 5’11” Melania who is clearly wearing 4-inch heels. The hair also looks the wrong color.
In the event that the picture with Musk was insufficient to convince you of the existence of Short Trump, the photo below with Zelensky, who is 5’5″ or 5’6″ at most, should suffice. Note that the average length of the human head is between 8-9 inches, so given that Zelensky hits the halfway mark, Short Trump is between 5’9″ and 5’11” in shoes. And that is clearly not the same man as the one attending the Carter funeral.
One wonders if the reason the presidential inauguration has been moved inside is to make the ceremony easier to stage for the cameras and obscure these details, in much the same way the Obama inauguration was repeated the following day. In any event, there are clearly a number of anomalies of much the same kind that surrounded the Biden inauguration. And there is reason for cautious optimism.
Last night I had the privilege of being included in a Zoom call with Steve Bannon, former investment banker and media executive, host of the “War Room” show and chief political strategist during the first seven months of Donald Trump’s first term in office. Much of what Bannon presented wasn’t surprising, but what seemed significant was that he confirmed that Trump and his team will go on the offensive from day one in office. “The days of thunder begin on Monday,” he said, and the world will not be the same again. Bannon wasn’t talking about Trump going on the offensive against the Chinese, Iranians or the Russians. Trump and his team are preparing to take on the “they.”
“They,” in Bannon’s words, are the people who control the world’s most powerful empire and, elections or no elections, democracy or no democracy, they will not voluntarily relinquish their privileges and the control over their empire: there will be a fight. Nessun dorma.
