Blowhard

Trump has blustered that he may not promise a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the November election.

But will Trump follow through on his disturbing threats? Flipping through the news clips of his presidency, one can’t help but notice his penchant for issuing of ground-scorching threats that end in flounder and retreat. He not only loves to bluff, but he loves to bluff big.

- he made nuclear war noises against North Korea and then cuddled with Kim Jong-un in a pair of summits
- vowed to jail Hillary Clinton but folded
- laid the rhetorical groundwork for invading Venezuela but then backed down
- threatened to close the border with Mexico
- demanded that General Motors reopen its Lordstown plant
- promised to end birthright citizenship
- said he would strip California of federal funds
- pledged to adjourn Congress
- bragged of holding “absolute“ power over the states that he would use to reopen them
- he even thought he could bluff the pandemic into submission by claiming that it would disappear soon