Secret Trump Season Three Showrunner Journal Lays Out “Sopranos-West Wing” Story Arc

(The Frump Report has obtained exclusive real-time access to the journal of Trump Season Three Showrunner Dalton Frumbo, a former distinguished journalist blacklisted by the Mainstream Media. Here is the initial installment. It is included here not as political commentary but for media insight. )

Dalton Frumbo’s Journal 

01/23/2025

1400 hours 

Dear Journal, 

Proud, proud, proud of the rough script of Trump Season Three.  Glad, glad, glad I made the jump to fulltime story telling.  Love, love, love the new vibe and the rough working theme:  “ Sopranos” meets “Far Right West Wing.”

Is it a switch?  Yeah.  I used to cover facts.  Until I found the power of telling stories.  Journalism once ruled my world.  I sought the truth. (air quote, air quote.)  

But then times got tough at my old newspaper, and  I got laid off. I went to some workshops, took a self-esteem course and listened to a half dozen TED talks.  

It became clear that I had to follow my own truth and the truth was I had to stop following the truth.  It was nothing but trouble and hadn’t worked for me for years.  Appears to be the same for many people today so really, I’m trendy. Bougie. Demure even. 

I really like the new arc, the power of the Tony Soprano inspiration.  

You know he’s a felon.  Check.  He says so!  Check.  You like him anyway.  Check.  Some of his family is a train wreck.  Check.  You’re still rooting for him because in a way your life is just like his.  He just has a lot more balls and does what you’d like to do.  Check and check.  

Cross that with a new cast of crazy cabinet ministers and the hallway cross-talk of an Aaron Sorkin script and you’re golden.

 What’s going to happen next?  Is the lady governor dog killer Kristi  Noem getting a pet? (Cut to nervous look on dog’s face.) 

Is Elon Musk opening a “Shark Tank” pitch platform – that dispatches losers to a real tank of sharks?  (Nothing fatal but a little blood in the water and a finger or two would work if the release forms are written correctly.) 

Does the secretary of defense get his one-year sober chip? Or just throw one big blast of a Tail Hook reunion party? 

You get the idea.  The cabinet at least should be wearing body cams, 

You can’t script all these things of course.  You must edit a lot, play off real people and real events. That’s easy enough if you have the right cast.  

And this is my first challenge.  The 2024 sweep was so complete we lost all the great villains.  Pelosi gone. Biden gone.  Bernie?  Tough to tag Mr. Mittens.  There’s Gavin Newsom in California and that might work but the guy is damned good looking and quick on his feet – and getting a lot of sympathy because of the whole fire thing. 

(Note to file:  Should we have our own fire episode? In a red state? One that is more friendly to us?)

But for villains, there’ always the press.  Everybody hates them.  And towards that end, that’s where we may need to “have a little talk” with Bezos.  Notably Bezos proposed changing the Washington Post slogan from “Democracy Dies in Darkness” to “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”

I’m not saying leave a horse head under Bezos duvet.  But here we don’t want story telling by the press.  That’s our job. What we need from the press is a reliable enemy, and nothing serves that function better than people quoting facts, throwing water on a story people want to hear.    

So rather than degrading the Washington Post, we need Bezos to prop it back up, give it full reign, let it endorse Biden or Bernie or Bazooka Joe.  Doesn’t matter.  They’re a foil.  The press will do in the short run.  They always do.  Even the Dems hate them now because they should have said earlier that Biden was old. 

Longer term, mid-season, we need more, new energies, some bad guys and gals who victimize the people. It’s not enough for the bad guys to be for diversity, equity and inclusion.  We need someone to defund motherhood, for example.   

 We’ve GOT to remember that the plot here isn’t to triumph – it’s to struggle.  And to struggle, we need the villains to thwart the plan. 

The trick is to maintain the forward  momentum, the role of Trump as victimized champion of the people prevented  from serving the common people by a villainous array of institutions.  

So we need a steady stream of simple solutions and proclamations that have little chance of being translated into reality.  

Are there concerns in the plot?  Hell yeah.  There will be a lot of cry babies out there as families get split up and deported and that’s not the story Trump Season Three wants to tell.  

We counter program against that with raids of swarthy looking youths with face tattos. (Note to file:  check whether face tattoos are good or bad now.  Country singers have them?)  We’ll focus group whether “terrorists” or “narco cartel” works better on the public brain.  (Note:  maybe “narco terrorists”?)  

Other challenges?  Tariffs. Inflation.  Wars.  Delivering on promises.  We’ve got time there to gin up some new ideas. At least the economy is good for a while.  Sleepy Joe did something. And hey, we may get lucky and solve some problems. It’s not impossible.  We’re not nuts about everything. That’s why it works. 

And we can distract.  

I like a sort of spin-off of Law and Order:  Special Victims Unit.  Though it would be Law and Order:  DEI, where each week someone is somehow victimized by DEI and a high-ranking woman or college president gets fired.  

We could do it through the Senate.  Hell, they might already be doing it. 

That could have real legs.