Hideous in its absurdity (h/t tengrain):

25, wow! I am surprised there are so many. We have just begun to fight. Please send me a list of the 25 RINOS. I read the Fake News Washington Post as little as possible! https://t.co/cEBM0bYuQ9

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 5, 2020

And about that amazing, but not surprising story of the day from The Washington Post:

Just 27 congressional Republicans acknowledge Joe Biden’s win over President Trump a month after the former vice president’s clear victory of more than 7 million votes nationally and a convincing electoral-vote margin that exactly matched Trump’s 2016 tally.

Two Republicans consider Trump the winner despite all evidence showing otherwise.
And another 220 GOP members of the House and Senate — about 88 percent of all Republicans serving in Congress — will simply not say who won the election.

Those are the findings of a Washington Post survey of all 249 Republicans in the House and Senate that began the morning after Trump posted a 46-minute video Wednesday evening in which he wrongly claimed he had defeated Biden and leveled wild and unsubstantiated allegations of “corrupt forces” who stole the outcome from the sitting president.

The T-Rump continues to act the asshole — hours before a scheduled rally tonight in Valdosta, Georgia, T-Rump called Gov. Brian Kemp and tried to pressure him to get state legislators to overturn Joe Biden’s election tally.
Supposedly, Kemp told the orange turd-head he didn’t have the authority to do such a fucked-up thing, and said bye-bye.
Biden won Georgia by more than 12,000 votes, the first Democrat to do so in nearly three decades.
Kemp certified the results Nov. 20, following a statewide, hand-count audit.
However, a personal note from Kemp on the R-Rump’s call:

On the call Saturday, Kemp told the president that his family was mourning the death of a family friend, a Loeffler staffer who was killed in a car crash Friday.
Trump then offered his condolences, according to one of the people with knowledge of the conversation.
But that was not the purpose of the president’s call, the person added: “This was not a condolence call. This was Kemp being chewed out by Trump.”

T=Rump doesn’t give a shit who died. He’s flaming a dying horse and using every little shit-trick in the book to keep the fires alive and his money-grabbing schemes to pilfer the MAGA rubes of more than $170 million since the election, all to zero accomplishment. His legal team is now 1-46 in courts nationwide, with GOP-appointed judges kicking his ass all over the legal tarmac.

And right about now, the T-Rump is down in Georgia bullshitting at a rally to try and turn the tide for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in their run-off election set for Jan. 5 — he started off with a big-ass lie: ‘“We won Georgia, just so you know,” Mr. Trump falsely said. “We never lost an election, we’re winning this election.”‘
And it charted downward from there, spending most of his time talking about his victimized self instead of Loeffler and Perdue.

In a responding tone, earlier the MAGA crowd waiting for the rally to start, shouted shit at Fox News reporters for betraying the sad-sack T-Rump:

Fox News journalists are getting the most abuse from the crowd lining up for Trump’s rally in Valdosta, Georgia. Cries of “we trusted you” and “traitors”. pic.twitter.com/Av1uHvrXdQ

— Sarah Gough (@sarahgoughy) December 5, 2020

So it is with the mob when playing with a petulant tyrant — speaking of which, T-Rump in his vain-glory attempts at drama might be a set-piece in a historical setting, a shit-heel of a character from literature.
A compelling feature this evening at The New York Times notes a similar take — some snips:

Moody and by accounts of his advisers sometimes depressed, the president barely shows up to work, ignoring the health and economic crises afflicting the nation and largely clearing his public schedule of meetings unrelated to his desperate bid to rewrite the election results.
He has fixated on rewarding friends, purging the disloyal and punishing a growing list of perceived enemies that now includes Republican governors, his own attorney general and even Fox News.

The final days of the Trump presidency have taken on the stormy elements of a drama more common to history or literature than a modern White House.
His rage and detached-from-reality refusal to concede defeat evoke images of a besieged overlord in some distant dictatorship defiantly clinging to power rather than going into exile or an erratic English monarch imposing his version of reality on his cowed court.
…
At times, Mr. Trump’s railing-against-his-fate outbursts seem like a story straight out of William Shakespeare, part tragedy, part farce, full of sound and fury.
Is Mr. Trump a modern-day Julius Caesar, forsaken by even some of his closest courtiers? (Et tu, Bill Barr?)
Or a King Richard III who wars with the nobility until being toppled by Henry VII?
Or King Lear, railing against those who do not love and appreciate him sufficiently?
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless electorate.

“This is classic Act V behavior,” said Jeffrey R. Wilson, a Shakespearean scholar at Harvard who published the book “Shakespeare and Trump” this year.
“The forces are being picked off and the tyrant is holed up in his castle and he’s growing increasingly anxious and he feels insecure and he starts blustering about his legitimate sovereignty and he starts accusing the opposition of treason.”

Et tu to you motherfucker…

If only…

(Illustration: ‘President Trump,’ by Jonathan Bass, found here).