Now that the Trump administration is winding down I am reminded of what my Dad would say after a contentious meeting with a business associate: Don’t go away mad, just go away. Of course he said this in jest, but I cannot help feel it is a mantra the country should embrace with the 2020 election, and maybe the entire year.

That is easy for me to say, but there are millions of Americans who feel President Trump should hang around for four more years or more despite the results of the election. His ego demands it. Some of his supporters believe in a widespread election fraud. Some elected officials, who took up an oath to support the Constitution, are looking for anyway to steal back a so-called stolen election. It would stand to reason that if millions of President Trump’s votes were thrown out, buried in landfills or in the Meadowlands with Jimmy Hoffa, there would be a lot of other races both Democrat and Republican, being bought and sold on the black market, too. And yes, there are some other disgruntled losers out their complaining and trying to find warmth in the president’s ego. But in this age of information everything is up for interpretation, particularly the voices in the back of a president’s mind.

It is not my intent to review the election, the last four years of the Trump administration, or become a political pundit or an armchair psychologist. God knows we have enough of both. And for the last four years they have both been expounding and extrapolating on the president’s comings and goings as well as his physical and mental acuity. It is a good thing that most of the country has gone digital because I would venture to say that if newspapers and magazines were still in vogue we would have deforested several states with the volumes that have already been written on the merits or demerits of President Trump’s administration and his always questioned mental state and intentions.

And here again what do I really know about sanity and insanity. I mean, I have seen a grown man sitting on a bus bench once having a vivid conversation with himself. Without a doubt this man had some deep-seated problems. But then who has not walked out of room (or a whole year) scratching their head, mumbling to themselves about what just happened. Today we can simply blast a tweet out to millions with only our deep feelings guiding our fingers. It gives new meaning to the old Yellow Pages ad: Let your fingers do the walking.  In this case it is more like letting your fingers do the talking.

When it comes to talking even when President Trump talks to himself he is not alone. When he tweets people are listening. I have a vivid picture of President Trump first thing in the morning sitting on the White House throne doing his constitutional duties while pushing out a good morning tweet to America. According to Forbes “the president hit an all-time peak follower count of 88,964,791 on Nov. 17. ” So if he was sitting on a bus bench rambling on he would have had close to 90 million people listening. Now that is insane.

However, some people are starting to tune out of this massive ego trip. According to the same article, “Dating back to November 18th, Trump’s verified account has a tallie of 18 consecutive days of net losses in terms of followers.” That’s close to more than 220,000 people. A mere drop in the bucket but a drop nonetheless.

But according to brandwatch.com President Trump does not even break into the top 5 of total Twitter followers. He is more than 30 million followers shy of former President Barack Obama’s 125 million who has the most followers. President Joe Biden sits at around 33 million followers.

Now the country has seen several economic bubbles pop in the last 20 years but I am not sure if we have seen an ego bubble before.  We had the Dot Com Bubble burst in 2000 as investors  in the 1990s poured millions into internet startups that never yielded the exorbitant profits that were envisioned. We saw the Real Estate Bubble rip the guts out of the construction industry, banking and investment services, not to mention the millions who lost their jobs and were foreclosed on. America was introduced to derivatives and tranches, which is just another way of letting an investor bet somebody else’s farm using somebody else’s money to so they can garner a profit. But what will be the effects of a supernova ego bubble bursting?

We have been on an ego trip for the last six years. And here is where a lot of the pundits get it wrong on what has happened starting with the 2016 GOP Presidential Primaries. Trump was able to pop all of his opponents egos on the debate stage. Since then, politics has been a side show, the facade for the giant ego trip since Donald Trump took office. We have had to endure the Twitter tweets spewing out all sorts of clatter into cyberspace. That constant voice in the back of the commander-in-chief’s head has 90 million people tuning in. It is like astronomers searching for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). In fact, according to Smithsonian Magazine “researchers noticed evidence of a strange radio emission while looking through archival data from 2019. The odd radio emissions seemed to be coming from the direction of Proxima Centauri, our closest neighboring star system at 4.2 light-years away.” Maybe they should direct their radio telescopes closer to the terra firma to see if there is intelligent life inside our own ego bubble.

What we have been dealing with is a growing radioactive toxic ego bubble that could rival Chernobyl. Again, I am not a chemist or a nuclear physicist, but I can spot a crazy man talking to himself on a park bench. But look at it from the atomic level, atoms can either be stable or unstable. An unstable atom is unbalanced if it picks up or loses electrons. It now has too many or not enough neutrons or protons. The atom will then start spitting out neutrons or protons, or other materials to reach stability. 

It is this egotastic instability we live in.  Consider presidential tweets as an atoms shooting out a constant stream of electrons trying to stabilize the his ego. The more tweets that are cast off into the universe the more unstable the tweeter. But the universe is not deaf. Like those astronomers listening into deep space for voices, 90 million people and the media here on Earth are amplifying the tweets that come flying out of Washington. More presidential particles or tweets flowing out simply means more unbalanced tweets come flowing back.

One sign of struggling ego is the need to be victorious at any cost. An easy observation of this is the ad hominem attack. This is a fallacy. According to Texas State Philosophy Department, “This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone’s argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument. The fallacious attack can also be directed to membership in a group or institution.” It is a kin to calling African nations “shitholes” or a US Senators Little Marco or Pocahontas.

Let’s face it, not all of the president’s followers are happy campers. So now we have this ever expanding unbalanced ego bubble feeding off an ever unstable universe because inside that ego and outside the ego bubble people are going simply bat shit crazy. This ego bubble might get punctured when Congress certifies the Electoral College results. Despite losing the election it appears as if President Trump’s ego is doing all it can to keep his ego bubble from bursting. His ego has engulfed some Senators and Congressmen who are vigorously manning the pumps to keep the bubble inflated. 

This could be a problem for the country. On an atomic level I do not think Joe Biden’s ego is big enough to offset and stabilize the decaying Trump bubble and what it may morph into. I do not believe the country has ever experienced this sort bubble before. It would be nice to see President Trump leave office calmly and quietly go home. And while doing so, he can take his  ego trip and deflated ego bubble with him.