Lindsey Graham is back at Mar-a-Largo. Trump is feeling good about his position, so he lets Graham wait an hour this time.
T: Linseed! Good to see you again!
G: Last time, you said you would talk about DeSantis once he had declared. It’s time.
T: Right! It’s time to kick his DeSanctimonious butt!
G: What’s the plan?
T: it has multiple parts. The first part, of course, is to keep pressing him about the rigged election and January 6. He will just keep on refusing to answer, which will make him look like an unprincipled wimp to the base.
G: Makes sense. What else?
T: Attack him as an ungrateful tool of the establishment who is trying to trick the base into abandoning their true champion. We can even say George Soros is behind it. Who knows, anyway?
G: How do you do that?
T: Talk about his education. He went to Harvard and Yale. He says he didn’t inhale. Sure! He also supported the war in Iraq, and he’s weak on Ukraine. Very weak. The base won’t like that.
G: What else?
T: Call him an opportunistic wimp on issues relating to wokeness. He didn’t say anything about the border or crime or vaccines or fossil fuels or the educational establishment for years; it only came up when he decided to run for president. I’ve been talking about those issues for years. He’s just following my lead.
G: OK. So far, so good. Anything else?
T: Keep up the personal insults. Get him to roll in the mud with me. Make it a referendum on crazy. I can’t be beaten in a battle like that. You know it as well as I do.
G: Sure do. Anything else?
T: He’s starting to run as Ted Cruz in 2016. I say, go for it! I beat Cruz like a drum, and Pence is already in that lane. They’ll split up the anti-abortion extremists and let me back in.
G: Sounds like a plan. Count me in. (He leaves)