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  Instead of packing arenas and touring the nation to remind everyone who’s king of the Republican Party, Donald Trump is trying something he never really attempted during his previous campaigns: retail politics.  
  Goofy trips to local restaurants and long lines for selfies have never been Trump’s forte, with the former president almost always opting for the packed arena and a quick plane departure rather than working a living room circuit and pressing the flesh.  
  So it was notable over the weekend when Trump, whose campaign has appeared asleep for months, awoke with a pair of private events in New Hampshire and South Carolina capped off with a visit to a local ice cream and burger joint, where Trump was seen clasping hands with an employee and praying.  
  It could be a concerted effort to soften Trump’s image—to bring him out of his shell as a billionaire former president holed up in his oceanside Mar-a-Lago resort. But it could also be something quite different—a charm offensive campaign of necessity that’s literally doomed.  
  “Let’s not fall for the political spin: the Trump campaign saying he’ll do more retail-style events, they’re simply saying that because they know he can’t pull the crowds he used to,” Alyssa Farah-Griffin, Trump’s former White House communications director, told The Daily Beast.  
  “This is not some grand strategy of, like, if he shakes enough hands and kisses enough babies, it's gonna turn the tide for him.”  
  Trump is no stranger to self-reinvention, but paltry fundraising numbers and a questionable demand for his vintage MAGA rallies have left him in a bind. >
  
  
  Trump—who still proclaimed he’s “more angry now” 
  
  They say that about progressive dementia >
  
  Frontotemporal Dementia, the way he stands is a clear indication of this condition. >
  
  I think this a begrudging admission on his part that he just doesn't have the juice to fill a stadium, or any large venue, for that matter.  He still needs to do something so he doesn't vanish from the news cycle, and this is his option. 
  I look forward to him slowly failing over the next two years, and getting increasingly desperate and nasty to his opponents. He's not the type to gracefully exit when it becomes clear he can't win. He's going to make it ugly and messy and try to take down as many people with him as he can. 
  And we're here for it. >
  
  The largest crowd he's likely to attract in the near future is going to be to his grave to "pay our respects."
  I don't know who will get the dubious honor of designing the final earthly resting place of one Donald John Trump, but I sincerely hope whoever it is gives plenty of consideration as to drainage. >
  
  It could be a concerted effort to soften Trump’s image—to bring him out of his shell as a billionaire former president holed up in his oceanside Mar-a-Lago resort. But it could also be something quite different—a charm offensive campaign of necessity that’s literally doomed.