# How is the US going to change when Trump is elected? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623 "2016-09-23T04:45:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/21 "2016-09-23T17:12:41Z")
Some national secrets will become known due to his inability to avoid bragging. Area 51? Oh yeah, we got aliens. The best aliens We got more aliens than Russia and China combined. And Mexico is going to pay us to get rid of them ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/22 "2016-09-23T18:17:58Z")
The four heads on Mt. Rushmore will be replaced with just one. And it’ll be YUUUUGE! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/23 "2016-09-23T19:20:06Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > The four heads on Mt. Rushmore will be replaced with just one. And it’ll be YUUUUGE! …and Really, REALLY Dense…! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/24 "2016-09-23T19:59:35Z")
Sorry, but I don’t feel like playing anymore. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/25 "2016-09-27T23:24:47Z")
I just want to know who, what, when and WHY Trump would destroy the US as we know it?? :dubious: Why would it be any better with Hils?? :mad: Give him time before you judge how he will treat the presidency 😃 He’ll have all the advisors all the other presidents have had. Him listening to them, possible but it can happen :smack: Some flat tax rates would be nice, why do young unmarrieds have to pay SO MUCH!:eek: Oh and the Global warming will get much WORSE! :dubious: And what president was perfect??? No president can have everyone love them to death! ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/26 "2016-09-28T00:39:08Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > The annual State of the Union will conclude with one state being kicked out for not adequately contributing to America’s greatness. Like they’re really going to have to force states to leave the Union if Trump is elected. Also I predict mass suicides. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/27 "2016-09-28T01:00:54Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Wall Street will run along the Rio Grande. For the win, only you have to say WALL Street. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/28 "2016-09-28T01:23:28Z")
I’love finally get that fence I’ve been thinking about for my front yard, because my neighbors will pay for it. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/29 "2016-09-28T02:09:22Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > I just want to know who, what, when and WHY Trump would destroy the US as we know it?? :dubious: I could explain, but P.J. O’Rourke has[already answered the question.](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/11/p-j-o-rourke-i-m-endorsing-hillary-clinton-the-devil-we-know.html) > [@](#): > > Better the devil you know than the Lord of the Flies on his own 757. Flying to and fro in the earth, with gold-plated seatbelt buckles, talking nativist, isolationist, mercantilist, bigoted, rude, and vulgar crap. That’s one of the early paragraphs. He gets wound up later.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/30 "2016-09-28T02:26:39Z")
… and he’s a conservative. But frankly I had never intended this thread to contain serious answers. As I hope I made apparent by my opening post. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/31 "2016-09-28T02:44:42Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > … and he’s a conservative. > > But frankly I had never intended this thread to contain serious answers. As I hope I made apparent by my opening post. Ah. In that case, All low-flow shower heads and toilets will now be gold-plated. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/32 "2016-09-28T03:11:31Z")
_Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss._ ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/33 "2016-09-28T21:29:02Z")
THE SDMB monthly post count drops to zero as all the liberals heads go BOOM. Slee ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/34 "2016-09-28T21:37:51Z")
There will be no more national debt. We won’t have to pay the creditors because Trump can just say that they did a bad job. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/35 "2016-09-28T22:17:01Z")
Smart. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/36 "2016-09-29T00:36:41Z")
Pence ensues. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/37 "2016-09-29T00:56:53Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Now as to what I think will happen. He will give an order to, say, his Attorney General. Say shut down the NY Times. The AG tells him he can’t do that. You’re fired! Next guy refuses. You’re fired! Eventually Trump realizes that he can’t just snap his fingers and have things happen. Being president is more like steering a 3000 mile long ocean liner. He will lose interest. And then what? Serious answer here: although I’m not a Trump supporter, this is **exactly** why I hope he wins. He’s impotent and can’t do anything, which is exactly what was good about the Clinton years (impotent other than the unforeseen consequence of causing the global economic crisis several years later). I’m wasting my vote on Johnson, but crossing my fingers on a Trump victory. The fact is he’ll accomplish nothing, whereas Hillary _will_ accomplish something with her connections, except those “accomplishments” are against our best interests. And damn, she’s a hawk! More than Bush II, m’thinks. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/38 "2016-09-29T01:18:08Z")
Well, he’s got a bunch of oil he wants to steal from the middle east, so I think he’ll be very busy with that. He’ll probably move his entire family into the white house. At least until the house he’s building near there is done. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/39 "2016-09-29T01:23:23Z")
Once civil war is ensured, Putin rolls east through Alaska and south over the Pole. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623/40 "2016-09-29T01:46:22Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > The annual State of the Union will conclude with one state being kicked out for not adequately contributing to America’s greatness. > [@alphaboi867](#): > > Like they’re really going to have to force states to leave the Union if Trump is elected. Also I predict mass suicides. In that vein, the great state of Oregon would like to volunteer to go second. There’s also a euthanasia joke here. I will take note of it, but not make it myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-us-going-to-change-when-trump-is-elected/766623.md?page=3)