Donald Trump is planning a dramatic change of pace that also represents a return to his roots in an effort to punish his allies, according to a former GOP insider on Friday.
Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson, who recently said he might depose Trump in a lawsuit and force the president to explain his ties to the deceased child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, ahead of the weekend wrote up a piece in which he predicted Trump is about to go on a firing spree against his closest advisers.
In a piece called Firing Season, Wilson made a major prediction about Trump going back to his The Apprentice roots.
Wilson claimed that, despite from largely refraining from high-profile firings that he became known for on TV and in his first term, the president will be forced to return to those dramatic displays in part because of his failing health, physical and mental.
"The chaos, the fear, the power to snap his fingers and ruin a career on live television has been tempting him as his disastrous first year comes to a close. Firing Friday is calling his name," the ex-strategist wrote. "For Trump, The Apprentice never ended; it just moved into the Office of Personnel Management. People forget that Trump’s favorite drug is not money, not sex, not even attention. It is humiliation, particularly the humiliation of his closest allies and sycophants. He finds firing the perfect display of his power and cruelty. He likes to see them grovel. He likes to watch the light behind their eyes fade to black when they realize the deal they made with him is going to end the way it always ends."
Wilson continued:
"For Trump, in his physical decline, it replaces the power he once had to golf, carouse with Jeffrey Epstein, and give women the 3.8 seconds of pleasure only he could deliver."
He then added, "But this time, it’s different."
"This time, the stakes are higher, the failures are bigger, and the crashing of his polling numbers and MAGA’s power is well underway," he wrote in explaining Trump's purported motives. "He is surrounded by scandals large and small, with leaks now pouring out of his administration like water through a screen door, and for the first time in a long time, he is not having fun."
Wilson went on to paint a picture of Trump making the move to firing season.
"The laughs are forced, the applause a little softer, the chorus of 'Yes, sir' just slightly off key. He feels it. He knows they are talking about him when he leaves the room," the analyst claimed. "He knows they see the gaffes, the word salad, the confusion, the repetition. He knows the late-night 'Is he OK?' questions are not just coming from the hated media, but from the people who see him up close. And so he looks for the lever he always used before. Fire someone. Fire a lot of someones. Make it bloody. Make it loud. Make it hurt."