Ross: End of Trump presidency is a textbook reality show season finale

How to react to the president calling up Georgia and asking the secretary of state to find 11,780 votes?

Some Democrats want an emergency impeachment (I guess it is a little like that notorious Ukraine phone call). But in this case, Trump had to call 18 times before the Georgia people would pick up. Apparently being told, “the president is on the line asking you to find missing votes” sounds a little too much like a prank call.

Well, it turned out it was the actual president– and he was making a prank call!

Even so, presidents can’t just call around to states ordering them to find the exact number of votes they need to win an election that happened two months ago.

It may seem shocking at first, but this all makes sense when you understand what we are witnessing here is not a transfer of power, but a textbook reality show season finale.

There was even a report in the British press that Trump plans to be in Scotland when his term ends like Ferdinand Marcos fleeing the Philippines. Look it up!

Anyway, it doesn’t matter, because in two weeks the Constitution takes over, and there’s nothing a president can do about that, except maybe to call James Madison. But once Madison saw the caller ID he probably wouldn’t pick up.

Also, it’s not easy to pick up a phone when you’re spinning as fast as he is right now.

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