# How Will Trump's Presidency End? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 11, 2016, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471 "2016-11-11T05:39:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/41 "2016-11-11T19:34:36Z")
Hopefully with a whimper, and not with a bang. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/42 "2016-11-11T19:44:10Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > [Here he is in 2009 and 2014 side by side.](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h62MTM4MBuo/VD0mnb85c2I/AAAAAAAAGi4/lFTcbRo88t8/s640/Obama%2Bphoto%2Btimewarp.jpg) > > Is that just five years of normal aging? > > [Here’s 2009 and 2016.](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/13/09/301F1C1A00000578-0-image-a-15_1452677795191.jpg) > > Just seven years of normal aging? You have to consider that Obama’s been working and taking the job seriously. Trump won’t be doing that. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/43 "2016-11-11T19:59:07Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > [Here he is in 2009 and 2014 side by side.](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h62MTM4MBuo/VD0mnb85c2I/AAAAAAAAGi4/lFTcbRo88t8/s640/Obama%2Bphoto%2Btimewarp.jpg) > > Is that just five years of normal aging? > > [Here’s 2009 and 2016.](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/13/09/301F1C1A00000578-0-image-a-15_1452677795191.jpg) > > Just seven years of normal aging? Well, yeah. He got elected right around the “now it all starts to go downhill” age. Also, maybe he wanted some gravitas and stopped using the Grecian Formula. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/44 "2016-11-11T20:36:13Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > I think there’s a good chance that Trump’s presidency will end in disgrace. > > He has surrounded himself with a band of Craven Sycophants, many of them them unprincipled, long-time political insider-opportunists with fading careers, who saw how easily he could manipulate ignorant voters, and were willing to roll the dice by jumping on his wagon. > > They gambled and won. But like many gamblers, they won’t know when to stop. They’re very likely to start engaging in shameless, self-serving overreach, and eventually the media will expose it. > > Trump has figured out how to manage his own media image, but he won’t be be able to control the Crave Sycophants. In fact, he’ll depend on them, because he doesn’t give a shit enough to learn about things, and this dependency will give them a false sense of impunity. > > Meanwhile, he won’t, of course, be able to “make America [del]white[/del] great” again, or create all those jobs, or stop ISIS, or whatever, and when the economy becomes worse, enough people will see that he was full of shit all along and not vote for him again. > > This all seems very likely to me. His presidency is STARTING in disgrace. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/45 "2016-11-11T20:58:32Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > You have to consider that Obama’s been working and taking the job seriously. Trump won’t be doing that. Yep. The job ages you when you take it seriously. Mr. Trump does not have that problem. But he’s still 70 and overweight. I think he’s a one-termer. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/46 "2016-11-11T21:02:02Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Well, yeah. He got elected right around the “now it all starts to go downhill” age. Also, maybe he wanted some gravitas and stopped using the Grecian Formula. Poor Jimmy Carter looked like he was attacked by a Wraith after only four years. He may not have survived another four IMO. OTOH, Reagan’s hair got DARKER black as the years progressed. ---
**Author:** ![ganthet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de0a6/32.png) [@ganthet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ganthet)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/47 "2016-11-11T21:10:37Z")
One of the professors who predicted Trump’s win and has predicted the winner since 1984 also [predicts Trump will be impeached](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/11/prediction-professor-who-called-trumps-big-win-also-made-another-forecast-trump-will-be-impeached/) and removed. I think it’s more likely than not also, but it carries a huge risk for the Republicans. Trump’s force of personality was what vaulted him over the other establishment candidates. The Republicans now are divided sharply into those who just supported him for pragmatic reasons like keeping the Supreme Court conservative and those who actually support him. Impeaching him would tear apart this coalition and also risk any fallout from whatever high crime or misdemeanor attaching to Pence. Since a fair number of Democratic senators would be needed in order to carry out the removal, they would likely make it as painful and messy as possible in order to prevent Pence/Congressional Republicans from completely disassociating themselves from Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/48 "2016-11-11T21:16:01Z")
Not with a bang, but a whimper. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/49 "2016-11-12T05:43:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Not with a bang, but a whimper. Like this? SFW. [https://www.google.com/search?q=jim+bakker+mental+breakdown&biw=1024&bih=679&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji\_t-jwaLQAhXM24MKHddQBmwQ\_AUICigD&dpr=1#imgrc=SoGCV4X9oartgM%3A](https://www.google.com/search?q=jim+bakker+mental+breakdown&biw=1024&bih=679&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji_t-jwaLQAhXM24MKHddQBmwQ_AUICigD&dpr=1#imgrc=SoGCV4X9oartgM%3A) ---
**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:** [November 12, 2016, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/50 "2016-11-12T06:12:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > You’re not getting it, are you? When it comes to Trump the Republicans will ignore any and all scandal. > They know their crow is black, and they don’t give a fuck. Well if the scandal involved Trump have sex with another man or credible evidence he committed incest with Ivanka they’d suddenly give a fuck, but other than that you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/51 "2016-11-13T00:58:12Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Well if the scandal involved Trump have sex with another man or credible evidence he committed incest with Ivanka they’d suddenly give a fuck, but other than that you’re right. I wouldn’t be so sure about that, either. ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/52 "2016-11-13T01:04:37Z")
Other. He will be raptured, devout Christian man that he is. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/53 "2016-11-13T01:11:13Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I wouldn’t be so sure about that, either. Well, Ivanka is pretty damn hot… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/54 "2016-11-13T01:44:56Z")
Once Trump has fulfilled his only reason for being President - to adjust trade deals and tax laws in his favor - he’ll tweet his resignation. Then we’ll have to deal with President Pence :eek:. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/55 "2016-11-13T06:42:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > He’s also _70 years old_, and he’s just been hired for a job that tends to age people rapidly. … Only people who actually care about doing the job and who take the responsibility seriously. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471/56 "2016-11-13T07:44:38Z")
> [@JustinC](#): > > He starts selling a liquid called “Trumpdo” with the tagline “It’s what plants crave” and opens dozens of factories and changes the law so farmers can only use it to hydrate their crops. Lol. Yup. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-presidency-end/771471.md?page=2)