{"id":296416,"date":"2025-11-20T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296416\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:49:08","slug":"the-truth-of-trumps-terrible-november-his-weapons-are-losing-their-potency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296416\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth of Trump\u2019s terrible November? His weapons are losing their potency"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re struggling to make it through to the end of the year, weighed down with problems and pressures, spare a thought for US President Donald Trump. His November has already been so dire that by the time Thanksgiving rolls around, he might need to save the traditional turkey pardon<\/a> for himself.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s troubles started a few weeks ago when something odd started to happen: his tried-and-true methods for getting his way suddenly stopped working. Like the US\u2019s ageing nuclear arsenal, Trump\u2019s weapons of choice: insults, strongarm tactics, demands of absolute loyalty and distraction, have started to lose their potency. It might be a temporary glitch or it might be the first glimpse into the remainder of Trump\u2019s lame-duck term.<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump talks up his investment deal with Saudi Arabia in the White House on Tuesday. Credit: AP<\/p>\n

Coining insulting nicknames for his opponents, like Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe, is a Trump trademark. So naturally, when a MAGA civil war erupted over the release of the Epstein files last week, Trump went to denigrate ally-turned-critic, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on social media, writing: \u201cMarjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!)\u201d Jokes that require Cliff Notes rarely fare well and rather than gaining traction the clunky insult was widely mocked.<\/p>\n

Things took an infinitely worse turn when Trump tried again, this time insulting her as \u201cMarjorie \u2018Traitor\u2019 Green\u201d (sic). Instead of cowering Taylor Greene into submission, she held a press conference outside the US Capitol, flanked by Epstein\u2019s victims. \u201cLet me tell you what a traitor is,\u201d Taylor Greene said. \u201cA traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves. A patriot is an American that serves the United States of America and Americans\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The woman who personifies the most extreme wing of MAGA is now suggesting that the US president is a traitor \u2013 to his country and supporters. That narrative is out there now and it\u2019s not being pushed by Democrats but by someone who has the trust of the MAGA die-hards. It shows the chasm that has opened up between Trump and the MAGA faithful over the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

Last Friday, Trump\u2019s insult gun fired into his foot again. Bloomberg White House correspondent, Catherine Lucey<\/a>, had asked him a question about his then opposition to releasing the Epstein files. Jabbing a finger at her, he admonished \u201cQuiet, piggy!\u201d Trump, who has often been praised for his political instincts, apparently forgot that he was answering a question concerning the issue of the abysmal treatment of women by powerful American men.<\/p>\n

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What Trump wanted at that moment was to shut down the conversation around his alleged knowledge of, and possible involvement with, Epstein\u2019s long history of degrading females. What he accomplished instead was to remind everyone that he has a long history of publicly denigrating women.<\/p>\n

The Epstein files was also behind the failure of Trumpian strongarm tactics last week. The discharge petition to force a vote on the release of the Epstein files required 218 signatures. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, (another far-right figure like Taylor Greene) was called into the Situation Room, in an attempt to pressure her to remove her signature from the petition. Boebert refused, becoming yet another significant MAGA figure to prioritise her loyalty to MAGA over Trump. Trump has always wielded his demand for fealty from every vassal in his orbit like a terrifying sword of Damocles but the sword would now appear to be in need of sharpening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re struggling to make it through to the end of the year, weighed down with problems and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-296416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}