Former President Donald Trump is having a hard time transitioning from all the media attention as President to his lonely life after leaving the White House in disgrace.
As noted by CNN, Trump’s first 100 days out of office illustrate a man who fears becoming irrelevant and who desperately craves the attention of his political career by recruiting MAGA-aligned Republican primary challengers.
While his predecessors disengaged from politics for months and focus their energy on planning a presidential library or writing a post-presidential memoir, Trump has turned the same political warfare that defined his presidency into a full-time retirement hobby. He often, he’ll ask for updates on his leadership PAC and political operation, or spend hours chatting by phone with a coterie of MAGA allies as he weighs a full return to the spotlight with a potential comeback presidential bid in 2024.
According to more than a dozen Trump aides, confidants and allies who spoke with CNN, many of whom were granted anonymity to candidly discuss his post-presidency, “the former President remains bitter about his defeat in the 2020 election. He is yearning to return to the White House and claimed that his efforts to build a post-presidential political machine are principally aimed at supporting that goal.”
