If you ever feel bad about 45, think of how good his associates’ lives would be if he lost in 2016 and enjoy a little schadenfreude:
Adm Jackson would be up for promotion - instead he’ll head towards retirement
Manafort, Gates and Cohen would be happily taking money from oligarchs
Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer would be running an RNC on the cusp of major 2018 gains
Steve Bannon would be a primary kingmaker with a fully funded outrage machine
Keith Schiller and Hope Hicks would be making good money as top aides to Trump TV
Melania Trump would have returned to a life of lazy luxury, easily ignoring her husband’s myriad affairs
Michael Flynn and Popadopalous would be rich from lobbying for authoritarian governments like Turkey
The Mooch ~~would still be married to his wife and ~~ would have witnessed the birth of their first child
Tom Price would still be a congressman and head of a major committee
Rex Tillerson would still be CEO of Exxon have happily retired without being humiliated for a year before being canned on the can
Gary Cohn would still be at Goldman Sachs
H R McMaster wouldn’t have had to retire
And Finally -
Donald Trump wouldn’t have to wake up every morning knowing that he will fail in the biggest, most humiliating way possible, as his precious empire crumbles and the presidency he won turns into the dictionary definition of a Pyrrhic victory.
They made their choices. And they will all end up with nothing.
Edit: Mr. and Mrs. Mooch made up! You can make up the “suck his own cock” reference from there
Edit 2: for the “drain the swamp crowd”, this group consists of true public servants whose lives have been wrecked (McMaster), unqualified individuals who would never be near the White House in another administration, and individuals with sketchy/problematic pasts. These staffing failures begin and end with Trump’s belief in loyalty over quality.
A second note - he’s not “draining the swamp”. He brought a lot of this flotsam with him. Our institutions (the media, DoJ, FBI, the courts, congressional oversight) are pushing them out.
Edit 3: I forgot some!
Paul Ryan wouldn’t be retiring as Speaker
Rob Porter wouldn’t have been outed as a wife beater
Don Jr. wouldn’t have gotten divorced