Donald Trump should tell his followers that he will return

Donald Trump would have left the Washington swamp people alarmed and depressed rather than jubilant and confident had he forcefully promised to run again for president.

“We will be back in some form” did not cut it.

That is what the former president said to supporters outside the White House on his final day as president when he left for Florida. Once there he added, “We’ll do something, but not just yet.” That did not cut it either.

His supporters wanted to hear more. They want him to say, “I shall return.”

It is what Gen. Douglas Macarthur said after he was ordered to leave the Philippines for Australia following the Japanese invasion in 1942. The words became a mantra. And Macarthur did return, retaking the island from the Japanese two years later.

So, like Macarthur, Trump would return and defeat his antagonists in 2024, or so they wish.

For the first time in a long time, Trump appeared out of bluster, perhaps still reeling over the “rigged” election and the assault of the Capitol by some of his followers, which led to his impeachment by vindictive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.

Even his former friend Sen. Mitch Mcconnell, leader of the Senate Republicans, threw him under the bus by supporting impeachment and a Senate trial.

Now Trump faces a trial in the Senate and, if enough of the Republicans vote against him, he will be convicted and, strangely enough, be removed from an office he does not hold.

If that is not bad enough, it will happen if enough Republicans in the Senate join the Democrats to make it happen.

The next thing you know, the hateful Pelosi will exhume and impeach Republican President Richard Nixon too, since Nixon escaped impeachment by resigning in disgrace in 1974. It is never too late for justice, Pelosi style.

To add to Trump’s woes, he has no support from anyone in the Former Presidents Club. It is obvious that Barack Obama, George Bush, Bill Clinton and even Jimmy Carter are all with Biden, not Trump. While they might bicker among themselves over who among them is the greatest, they are unified in agreeing that Trump is not in their class.

Meanwhile, the propagandists in the main-stream media are doing their best to prop up the 78-year-old Biden and swoon over him as though he were the vigorous John F. Kennedy who became president in 1960 at age 42. This new Camelot is more like a senior retirement community.

It is all enough to take the wind out of anyone’s sails, even Trump.

Also, Trump will get no help from Biden, despite softening his rhetoric toward the new president, and leaving behind a “generous” note to his successor. Biden does not have the stones to stand up to Pelosi. Even if he wanted to help Trump out.

If Biden did have the courage, this poisonous political leader might impeach him too.

Because Pelosi has now impeached Trump twice on shaky and dubious charges, she has made the once-rare punishment of a wayward president cheap and commonplace.

If you can impeach Trump for a phone call to the Ukrainian president you can impeach him for anything, which is what she has done for a second time.

Now, should the Republicans take over the House in 2022, as might happen, the Republicans could then impeach Biden for wearing mismatched socks, or for forgetting where he put the nuclear code.

It is a mistake to write Trump off. Some 74 million Americans voted for him and they, like Trump, are not going anywhere. And, given the opportunity, they would vote for him again. Outside of the platitudes he uttered about unity at his inaugural, Biden has no plans or interest in reaching out to Trump or Trump supporters.

Biden has spent more time and effort signing executive orders paving the way for citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants living in the country, and waving in millions more, than he has welcoming Americans who voted for Trump.

Also, if convicted following a Senate trial, the Senate, in a separate action, has the power to ban Trump from running for office again. There is no precedent for that in American history, and it certainly would be challenged in court.

Trump should forget trying to be a nice guy and just say, “I shall return.”

What has he got to lose?

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