Mark Gongloff, Columnist

The GOP Is Stuck With Trump, Low Energy and All

The party might finally want to move on, but the former president has other ideas.

November 16, 2022 at 9:52 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

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Like tens of other Americans, I tuned in last night to watch Donald Trump announce Presidential Run III: Everybody Look at Me, expecting the usual flaming-clown-car spectacle. Some people just want to watch the world burn, I guess. But instead it was like watching James Austin Johnson do a Trump impression on a heavy dosage of sleeping pills.