According to the lore, Fred Trump, while in the grips of Alzheimer’s, insisted on still going to work every day. And the people that surrounded him, in order to let him keep feeling powerful while minimizing the amount of damage he could do to their business dealings, would have him sit in an executive office all day signing papers.
With that backdrop, I got to thinking. I know the administration has been planning on using a steady stream of EOs to keep overwhelming the news cycle. But I think the people surrounding Trump also realize he’s completely toast at this point and they’re deploying the Fred Trump strategy of keeping him busy signing “very important papers.”
That was all. Just some random shower thoughts that were probably too political for the showerthoughts community.
I bet he didn’t even sign his own executive orders.
Remember about 3 weeks ago that Trump was claiming all of Biden’s pardons were invalid because of use of an autopen?
I’m pretty sure that was just projection because Trump hasn’t been signing his own executive orders, and since I’m already speculating, I’m going to bet he didn’t write or read them either.
Even though it’s usually true that with the GOP “every accusation is a confession”, I doubt it’s true here. Did he write the EOs? Definitely not. Did he read them? Almost assuredly no. He definitely signs them, though. He’s a narcissist with a big sharpie. He loves that shit. Probably his favorite part of the job.
There’s a clip I’m too tired to find right now but someone puts an EO on the desk in front of him and he says “oooh, what’s this one?”, like it’s a slice of birthday cake he’s trying, and he’s already signing before anyone even starts to tell him what it is.