Call it Sobering Wednesday, the day after GOP leaders watched in horror as their party became the seemingly irretrievable plaything of New York billionaire Donald J. Drumpf on Super Tuesday.
(That’s Donald J. Trump for those of you that haven’t yet downloaded the Drumpfinator Chrome Extension offered by HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.”)
And now, as fellow big-city billionaire Bruce Wayne would say to his faithful Chris Christie-like sidekick: “To the Batshit!”
1. Trump to the press: I am a “unifier.” Honest to Donald, that’s what he said to the no-doubt penned-up reporters at a Palm Beach presser Tuesday night, after racking up a dominant number of wins over his Republican rivals, as predicted.
From CNN:
Trump swamped his rivals by piling up seven wins across the nation, demonstrating broad appeal for his anti-establishment movement.
… Trump won across the conservative South, in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia, but also captured more moderate Massachusetts and Vermont.“This has been an amazing night,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. He vowed to be a “unifier” and to go after Clinton with a singular focus once the GOP race eventually winds up.
As Trump blustered and bullied his way through his typical scattin’-and-be-boppin’ opening remarks, and the brief Q&A that followed, his faithful sidekick (and former rival) Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey stared at the back of his master’s shiny, dramatically sloped hair sculpture, or perhaps into the distance, with an expression that suggested horrifying realizations had struck him.