Tracking Hurricane Trump To The White House

This presidential election is Donald J. Trump’s to lose and he is losing it in a landslide. Hurray, Hillary! Win or lose, Trump does not care; we can be sure of that he assures us. But before this political gatecrasher becomes history politically he should know that he will not only be worse off in defeat, his renown-which was never fantastic anyway-will be in tatters at last. Donald Trump should realize that his own crude presidential campaign has hammered the little precampaign respect people had for him, and that he will become a persona non grata to the vast majority of not only Americans when he loses. From now on, unless he happens to win on November 8, every time people are reminded of the real estate mogul-who-would-be-president, they will be reminded also of his campaign of calumny, and they will cringe afresh. In the New York Catholic dinner and the like, he was always the butt of President Barack Obama’s jokes. When Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes president, Trump better not accept such invitations again. Or President Obama’s reprisals will become a child’s play to how praise singers and comedians will treat President Hillary Clinton to a twentyone-gun-salute of a twenty-one-course-dinner of jokes at his expense.