# New take on "MAGA" { IE “Make America Go Away” } **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 23, 2026, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710 "2026-03-23T13:31:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/1 "2026-03-23T13:31:25Z")
I was at a concert yesterday afternoon (in Montreal) and saw a man wearing a MAGA hat. A closer inspection showed that it actually said “Make America Go Away”. Just had to share that. ---
**Author:** ![f.coli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@f.coli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/f.coli)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/2 "2026-03-23T15:36:42Z")
As the founder of psychohistory, Hari, can you calculate when the MAGA-trump movement will collapse? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/3 "2026-03-23T15:50:59Z")
I worry that Trump is this timeline’s Mule, something statistical forecasting can’t predict. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/4 "2026-03-23T15:51:06Z")
> [@f.coli](#): > > As the founder of psychohistory, Hari, can you calculate when the MAGA-trump movement will collapse? Trump is The Mule. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/5 "2026-03-23T15:51:40Z")
Some time in the next 1000 years. The question is, will there be a Second Age of Trump? ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/6 "2026-03-23T16:18:31Z")
If the war with Iran drags on for months, or worse, spreads to other countries, and gas prices continue to rise, we’ll see many MAGA folks running for the exits. Whether something worse than MAGA emerges, with or without Trump as their dear leader, is hard to predict. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/7 "2026-03-23T16:24:15Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > I was at a concert yesterday afternoon (in Montreal) and saw a man wearing a MAGA hat. A closer inspection showed that it actually said “Make America Go Away”. Just had to share that. I’ve heard of people wearing hats with the same message in Greenland. And on Friday last week, I was in an airport and the cashier at the diner had a shirt that seemed to say MAHA, which seemed overly political to me. (RFK Junior uses that to mean “Make America Healthy Again”.) But then I looked more carefully and saw a symbol in front of the M that was supposed to be an O. I was in Eppley Airfield, the airport in Omaha, Nebraska and her shirt simply said OMAHA. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/8 "2026-03-23T17:47:50Z")
Trump is the Ass. Not to get biblical, on it. (Gives little donkeys and asses a bad name) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/9 "2026-03-23T17:52:49Z")
I believe the “Mule” being referred to is the character from Asimov’s “Foundation” books, an entity who is not predictable that defies most solutions used thus far. Solutions used in the past don’t work on him. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/10 "2026-03-24T01:21:15Z")
But the mule in Asimov’s Foundation was sterile (hence the name) and also had super powers. Trump has unfortunately passed on his genes and his superpowers are stupidity and hatred. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/11 "2026-03-24T01:51:36Z")
Like an actual ass. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/12 "2026-03-24T01:54:21Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Trump has unfortunately passed on his genes and his superpowers are stupidity and hatred. I’m surprised you believe his claims of paternity. Hatred, at least, isn’t genetic. And stupidity isn’t a Trump exclusive. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/13 "2026-03-24T03:29:06Z")
Have you looked at Barron? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/14 "2026-03-24T03:30:29Z")
Moderating: As this thread is all politics and Trump, I’m moving it to P&E. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/15 "2026-03-24T10:11:18Z")
I thought we were _now_ in the 2nd Age O’ Trump. Or did you mean a Second Coming? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/16 "2026-03-24T10:21:22Z")
I have a red hat much like that, but with Kimmel’s message, “Isn’t it past your jailtime?”. But the message is too small to see from afar so I have refrained from wearing it in public. Since I am in a blood-red territory, I’m afraid it may be misinterpreted from a distance. And I know people DO see/read messages on hats. I also have a “Vietnam Veteran” hat, and I often (yes, often) have strangers say, “Thank you for your service,” sometimes accompanied with a hug and/or a handshake. Maybe I should get a red hat made with both messages, and see what happens. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/17 "2026-03-24T10:51:28Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > If the war with Iran drags on for months, or worse, spreads to other countries, and gas prices continue to rise, we’ll see many MAGA folks running for the exits. Whether something worse than MAGA emerges, with or without Trump as their dear leader, is hard to predict. I think that shows a disturbing lack of insight into how stupid people work. MAGA people don’t see the war in Iran or anything else Donald Trump does or any of the negative effects they are experiencing as something that has, in fact, directly been created by Donald Trump (which they are). These are simply events or scenarios that “just happened” and Trump is the only one they believe can protect them from all these enemies who are out to destroy their lifestyle. The point is at no time will any of them ever objectively examine their beliefs and say “oh…maybe I was wrong about that.” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/18 "2026-03-24T14:58:29Z")
Watching a report on the Florida’s special election. One voter said if Trump endorsed the candidate it was her vote. She didn’t even know the Republicans candidates name(Jon Maples). That’s just a sad illness. And apparently Trump voted by mail. Egads! ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/19 "2026-03-26T00:09:58Z")
And, like the Mule, when he’s gone things will go back on track, unless he goes full Gregg Stillson, which I’d give even money on. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710/20 "2026-03-26T00:18:13Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Trump is The Mule. Now this is slander, pure and simple. The Mule was not perfect be he was very intelligent person and a captivating artist, while Trump struggles to form a sentence and has never done anything remotely creative in his life. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-take-on-maga-ie-make-america-go-away/1028710.md?page=2)