On the evening of November 3, 2020, Donald Trump could highlight the mobilization he had aroused despite his erratic management of the Covid-19 epidemic, the main test of his mandate. He had avoided the repudiation hoped for by the Democratic camp at the polls and, on the contrary, he could take advantage of the largest number of votes ever received by a Republican candidate in a presidential election, due to a historic participation. Democrats were in retreat in the House of Representatives, and Republicans appeared in a position to retain the Senate.
Although beaten by Joe Biden, Donald Trump was therefore able to have a lasting influence on the Republican Party. He could even entertain the prospect of a return to the White House in 2024 despite his age.
There has hardly been any question of it since January 6 and the assault given by some of his supporters against the Capitol, where the procedure for validating the votes of the presidential election was taking place, precisely to prevent it. The five recorded deaths – including a police officer – and the violence of the images are linked to the diatribes uttered by the president a few hours earlier, when he himself had invited his supporters to march on Congress, threatening the Republicans with half a word hostile to questioning the verdict of the ballot box.
Donald Trump’s inability to take stock of the gravity of the situation further worsened his case. It was not until the next day, at the end of the day, that he condemns in a video recording the overflows and finally admits – without saying his name – that Joe Biden will move into the Oval office on January 20, contrary to what ‘he said the day before.
He then promised a transition “Without a hitch” which he nevertheless undermined the next day by announcing on Twitter that he would not attend the swearing-in ceremony of his successor, contrary to a tradition more than a hundred years old. According to the American press, Donald Trump could leave the White House on January 19 to settle in Florida, in his luxury club in Mar-a-Lago.
Insulated and under pressure
Until that date, he will remain an isolated president under pressure. He lost “Definitely”, Friday January 8, after his last message, his main channel of expression, this Twitter account followed by more than 88 million people whose abrasive use he has always justified as the sole means of bypassing media presented as unanimously hostile. This radical measure was justified by the social network “Due to a risk of incitement to violence”, “after careful consideration of recent @realDonaldTrump account tweets and in the context around them”.
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