With just over two weeks to go until Joe Biden’s inauguration, it’s not clear how Donald Trump plans to spend the day on which he will officially be evicted from the White House. One obvious possibility is that he’ll barricade himself in the Oval Office and refuse to come out, forcing the Secret Service to drag him from the premises, with four separate agents holding his arms and legs. Another is that he’ll throw a rally, possibly in Florida, where he would no doubt spend the entirety of the proceedings recounting all the ways the election was stolen from him. Yet another is that he’ll have already fled the country—and while that would make sense from a trying-to-avoid-prosecution and also from a giant-man-baby perspective, at least one foreign nation has already told him to not even think about landing on its shores, which cannot be welcome news for the bruised ego of a man who, at last count, had lost the election approximately 487 times already.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was asked about the rumor that Trump might be landing at Glasgow Prestwick Airport on January 19, near his golf course, and staying for “an extended period.” And she wasn’t too enthused about it! “I have no idea what Donald Trump’s travel plans are, you’ll be glad to know,” she said. “I hope and expect that his immediate travel plan is to exit the White House, but beyond that I don’t know.” Then she added: “We are not allowing people to come into Scotland now without an essential purpose, which would apply to him, just as it applies to everybody else. Coming to play golf is not what I would consider an essential purpose.”
While it’s true that Scotland, in addition to Wales, England, and Northern Ireland are currently in a lockdown, following the appearance of a new strain of COVID-19 that is reportedly 50 to 70% more transmissible, most countries—save for your North Koreas, Russias, Brazils, etc.—would probably prefer Trump stay away regardless, though it’s nice to have such a convenient excuse.
Of course, ask the White House and the president was never planning to be anywhere but the U.S. on inauguration day. “Anonymous sources who claim to know what the president is or is not considering have no idea. When President Trump has an announcement about his plans for Jan. 20 he will let you know,” White House spokesman Judd Deere told The Washington Post.
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Pennsylvania Republicans try their hand at overthrowing democracy
One of the unfortunate consequences of Donald Trump is that his presence in the White House has given people license to openly flaunt the worst sides of themselves, whether it’s their white nationalist tendencies or beliefs that rational thought is a liberal conspiracy. Recently, that‘s also meant that while it might have been previously considered shameful to try and murder little “d” democracy in cold blood, now it’s a badge of honor, a turn of events that was on full display in Pennsylvania on Tuesday: