the shark has been jumped

 Tulsa rally site, largely unoccupied

Trump revels in the spotlight. He has added a 4th law to Kepler's planetary motions, "Everything revolves about me". The Donald wants to be in the public eye. He and his first wife did a cheesy commercial for a pizza chain, he was on the cover of Playboy magazine, he was on episodes of  The Jeffersons, and so on. Mark Burnett talked him into a "reality game show". Trump thought the genre crap, but Burnett told him he would be the star, and the publicity would add dollars to the Trump Empire. Donald was on 186 episodes from 2004 to 2015, he brought on his three issues from the first wife, and the third wife and her issue onto the show. Some people from the show (Omarosa Manigault) came with him to the White House.

Trump during his 2016 campaign enjoyed the adulation of the crowd in jammed, small arenas. After inauguration he continued to have them. The last had been on March 2nd in Charlotte North Carolina. Then the awareness of he coronavirus took the nation's attention. He shifted to daily briefings on the virus, where he would babble, and brag, and bullshit on, and on, and on. April 23rd, Donald spoke about light and cleaning chemicals...

"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light? And I think you said, that hasn’t been checked but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting.And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that? By injection inside or almost a cleaning. As you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that."

Well, after telling America to drink bleach, and to shove a light bulb up the a$$...that pretty much ended the live television updates on the virus. He was ridiculed, he does give comedians material: [click]

Donald needed a stage. Some evilton proposed June 19th Tulsa Oklahoma. That was a provocation which the press could not ignore.  June 19th is also called, Juneteenth, Emancipation Day, it was a Day of Jubilee. On June 19th, 1865 word was read by a Union general that the slaves of Texas were free men. The next year, the freemen celebrated the commemoration. It is a yearly event, although many in America did not realise. Tulsa is an oil town in a very, very Republican state. It is a place where the surrounding populace would be full of trumpsters. In 1921, it was the site of a massacre. The Greenwood part of town contained the successful bourgeoise section of black residents of Tulsa. Black people were shot with machine gun, and fire bombed by aereoplane. [click] The choice of Tulsa on the date was done with purpose. Black lives do not matter at all. After public protest, the Trump campaign changed the day to Saturday the 20th.

Donald Trump arrives at the backyard of the White House, post Tulsa. 

"Jumping the shark is an idiom used to describe a moment when something that was once widely popular, but has since grown less popular, makes a misguided attempt at generating publicity that instead only serves to highlight its irrelevance....The phrase derives from an episode of sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984), in which the character Fonzie jumps over a shark while on water-skis."*

Trump had his coronavirus rally in Tulsa, 6,200 came in a place that seats 19,000, and after his campaign manager claimed a million ticket requests. This foto by Patrick Semansky of Trump walking from heliocopter to the White House shows a dejected Trump carrying his MAGAt cap, and his tie undone (never seen that picture before). People have snagged a video of the walk, and attached it to music. One had "Ashokan Farewell", another had Chris de Burgh's "The Lady in Red", and so on... Exactly, watching the video of the walk, it looks like a man coming home after a long and/or hard day. Donald's face looks better than his acting face, there is no fake smile, no pouty fish lips, no full of hot air pretense—just a tired man walking; but for him, it is defeat, and perhaps a moment of recognition of humiliation; but to-morrow will come, and he will be his mean, cranky, obnoxious self.

                                   ...Who knows himself a braggart,
                                   Let him fear this, for it will come to pass
                                   that every braggart shall be found an ass. 
                                                         —Parolles, All's Well That Ends Well  IV. iii
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*  from Wikipedia
postscriptum: noon 2 August 2020. Herman Cain, a prominent black Republican, attended Trump's Tulsa rally.  Nine days later, he was diagnosed with coronavirus. 30 June he was hospitalised. 30 July he died. Cain ran Godfather's Pizza for Pillsbury. Tombstone is another pizza company.