# So What Happens if Hillary Wins and Trump Doesn't Accept It? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 1, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-if-hillary-wins-and-trump-doesnt-accept-it/770376 "2016-11-01T16:08:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-if-hillary-wins-and-trump-doesnt-accept-it/770376/41 "2016-11-07T20:18:55Z")
Trump can raise as much hell as he wants, but unless there is a legit legal challenge I can’t see the media covering him very much after he loses. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-if-hillary-wins-and-trump-doesnt-accept-it/770376/42 "2016-11-07T20:25:30Z")
[What Donald Trump does when he loses.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/what-does-donald-trump-do-when-he-loses-he-acts-like-it-never-happened/) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-if-hillary-wins-and-trump-doesnt-accept-it/770376/43 "2016-11-07T20:48:15Z")
skdo23 sank that shot in one stroke. Trump will declare his campaign a brilliant business move and carry on doing the same stuff he’s always done until the day he dies/ ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-if-hillary-wins-and-trump-doesnt-accept-it/770376/44 "2016-11-07T20:49:34Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Except there isn’t a constitutional requirement for the loser to concede… You are so out of touch it’s embarrassing to think of. Don’t you know that if Trump and his followers thinks there’s such a requirement, then of course ipso facto it exists? Hell, next you’ll be saying there’s such a thing as facts. For shame. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-if-hillary-wins-and-trump-doesnt-accept-it/770376/45 "2016-11-07T20:51:46Z")
When Trump loses, I can see him refusing to pay ANYONE or ANY organization that he owes money to: “They did a bad job. I did not win, so I will not pay them. Terrible. Sad.” Already, he’s refusing to pay his polling firm because they did not give him the results he wanted from the polls. I see many, many lawsuits in his future. My fond hope is that those who were closest to him during the campaign turn on him - it would be in their best interests, if they ever want to maintain relationships with the Republican party. ETA; I am not going to feel even a tiny bit sorry for anyone stiffed by Trump after this campaign is over. They knew who they were dealing with. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-if-hillary-wins-and-trump-doesnt-accept-it/770376/46 "2016-11-07T20:59:32Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Trump can raise as much hell as he wants, but unless there is a legit legal challenge I can’t see the media covering him very much after he loses. the media ? not cover trump? who are you kidding? They love trump - keeps eyes on the pages it does. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-if-hillary-wins-and-trump-doesnt-accept-it/770376/47 "2016-11-07T21:34:38Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I say that we just tell him that he won. Set him up on a set from west wing, and make it a reality show. > > To be honest, I am sure that we all would be fascinated by what a Trump presidency would look like, we just don’t want to live there. > > This way, we can have the best of both worlds. > > If we get fox in on it, we may manage to convince his more ardent supporters that he won too. We’d let Melania and Ivanka in on it, but tell his sons that their daddy won. Put it inside a Truman-show like dome - “The Trump-man Show”… maybe we can put Ann Coulter in there to as his communications director…Sheriff Joe and the KKK can handle law and order… a “dome of deplorables”… ---
**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:** [November 8, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-if-hillary-wins-and-trump-doesnt-accept-it/770376/48 "2016-11-08T01:48:38Z")
The most hopeful thing said in this thread was the comment that the Trumpeters are not organized. If they were ever to be organized, watch out. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-if-hillary-wins-and-trump-doesnt-accept-it/770376/49 "2016-11-08T03:16:35Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I say that we just tell him that he won. Set him up on a set from west wing, and make it a reality show. > > To be honest, I am sure that we all would be fascinated by what a Trump presidency would look like, we just don’t want to live there. > > This way, we can have the best of both worlds. > > If we get fox in on it, we may manage to convince his more ardent supporters that he won too. We’d let Melania and Ivanka in on it, but tell his sons that their daddy won. Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere and build them a home, a little place of their own. The Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings. And they can appear to themselves every day On closed circuit T.V. To make sure they’re still real. It’s the only connection they feel. \*Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome: Trump and Stone; Misters Koch and friend; Mrs. Palin, and Christie; Mister Putin and party; the ghost of McCarthy; and the memories of Nixon. And now, adding color, a group of anonymous climate change-denying oil-drilling glitterati. \* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-if-hillary-wins-and-trump-doesnt-accept-it/770376.md?page=2)