GOP Exit Bus Fills Up

Tip top Tuesday, Friends,

Back on July 20, I said the GOP would throw Donald Trump under the bus. That was nearly three weeks ago, and you've seen what's happened.

Yesterday, 50 high-profile Republican national security experts signed an open letter saying that a Trump presidency would be the "most reckless in American history." People like this don't say things like that lightly.

He's been abandoned by several sitting GOP congressmen including Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Representative Scott Rigell of Virginia.

Many more will follow.

Take your pick Donald. Any one of these would be more than willing
to run you over.  Oh, and they're all loaded with Republicans.

The GOP exit bus will be completely full by Labor Day, and the driver will be looking to flatten The Donald with it.

Yesterday's speech on economics, billed as Donald Trump's long-awaited 'pivot', got decent marks.

But that was simply because he stuck to the text, reading it amateurishly from the teleprompter and not going off on a wild tangent. The bar for Nubbs is astonishingly low.

He was the most specific he's ever been insofar as actually giving us some policy.

But we learned that while he talks a good game as champion of the little guy, his policies basically help his rich buddies. They're just 'trickle down' redux.

Trickle Down or Supply Side Economics, originally hatched by Ronald Reagan, says that making the rich even richer through YUGE tax cuts encourages them to spread their additional wealth  in creating industry and jobs, thereby stimulating the economy.

It simply doesn't work. Most of the rich just hold on to their windfall.

The only trickle down for the middle and fast-growing lower classes offered by Supply Side Economics is the rich pissing on them.

Trump's first major policy speech is getting scant attention. It's been overshadowed by the open letter and GOP defections.

Senator Susan Collins said it best with regard to Trump's so-called pivot, "There is no other Donald Trump." One speech doesn't change the man.

Trump dismissed  the security experts and congressional desertions as sour grapes by the effete establishment. He'll run without the party if he has to.

Big talk. He really can't go it alone.

And as the exit bus fills up with most of the GOP stalwarts, and leaves The Donald to virtually fend for himself, I'm keeping an eye on his business 'empire'.

I've already mentioned how foot traffic at Trump properties around the world is down by a significant 14% year over year. And Trump keeps calling the election process rigged. I sense he's setting us up for a midnight surprise.

If the polls, which he venerates, and his business keep heading south, I give Trump three more weeks in the race at most.