# Trump is dying
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Tags:** trump
**Created:** [August 27, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520 "2025-08-27T07:09:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 12
### Author:  [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/221 "2025-08-30T23:00:03Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#):
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> I’d love to see Trump have to pay for everything he’s done, and for him to suffer. But it’s more important for the country to get what it needs than for him to get what he deserves.
My first post ever in The BBQ Pit, to say I agree with this statement.
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### Author:  [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/222 "2025-08-30T23:20:22Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> I actually pity his wife and kids. That cannot be pleasant for them.
Well, I’m sure she’ll take as much of the stolen money that she can back to Slovenia along with Baron.
Maybe she’ll have metal plates bolted onto his body so people can call him “Doctor Doom”?
As for the huge whale Rump, maybe he can be composted. As backhoes go, I’m quite sure that he’ll be ‘two scoops’.
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### Author:  [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/223 "2025-08-31T00:39:39Z")
Should the title of this thread be edited to Trump is Golfing now?
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/224 "2025-08-31T01:20:52Z")
I meant Vances wife.
I’d look up the spelling of her name but I just don’t care that much.
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### Author:  [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/225 "2025-08-31T01:50:56Z")
Until Fox News starts playing video of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake on loop, there’s no reason to get your hopes up.
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### Author:  [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/226 "2025-08-31T03:52:15Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> I meant Vances wife.
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> I’d look up the spelling of her name but I just don’t care that much
…. Usha Bala Chilukuri Vance…
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### Author:  [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/227 "2025-08-31T14:41:24Z")
Pictures have been released of Rump ( proof of life? ) but they don’t look like him. The nose is thinner, the eyes closer together, the cankles seem gone. Do presidents still use body doubles?
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/228 "2025-08-31T14:59:03Z")
No joke here - we live in Arlington and were driving this morning west to Shenandoah and we were stopped on a highway entrance by a long line. It turns out we were stopped for a motorcade - and as a joke I said to my wife maybe they’re taking him to the hospital… And sure enough, after all the motorcycle cops and SUVs, there was an ambulance riding with them!
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/229 "2025-08-31T15:01:31Z")
We’ll know something is really up with Trump’s health when his streak of club golf championships comes to an end, though it’s possible they’ll just keep awarding them posthumously.
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/230 "2025-08-31T15:19:53Z")
Oh happy day if it turned out to be his last ride.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/231 "2025-08-31T15:24:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> Why all those other cars and SUVs?
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> Depending on the level of security the U.S. Secret Service deems is necessary (and again, they keep that mum), a presidential motorcade might have a couple of police cars, **a high-tech ambulance** , SUVs with anti-aircraft guns, cars for members of the press and more. It’s quite a spectacle, and a little intense (yes, those Secret Service agents have real weapons, and they’re trained to respond to threats in a split second). You can snap photos and wave at the president, but don’t run into the street or make sudden or threatening gestures: a motorcade might seem all pomp and circumstance, but security is its main function.
[bolding mine]
[**SOURCE**](https://washington.org/visit-dc/guide-to-presidential-motorcades-washington-dc)
ETA: also … [**SOURCE**](https://www.twz.com/4518/the-fascinating-anatomy-of-the-presidential-motorcade)
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/232 "2025-08-31T15:56:51Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#):
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> Pictures have been released of Rump ( proof of life? ) but they don’t look like him. The nose is thinner, the eyes closer together
Maybe he had ‘work done’.
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/233 "2025-08-31T16:20:59Z")
I think it would be irresponsible not to speculate.
In fact it would be outright dereliction of duty for someone on the left not to start the rumour that the Deep State has already killed Trump and replaced him with a compliant double…
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/234 "2025-08-31T16:27:34Z")
> [@Frodo](#):
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> In fact it would be outright dereliction of duty for someone on the left not to start the rumour that the Deep State has already killed Trump and replaced him with a compliant double…
To paraphrase [a film with a not-dissimilar premise](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106673/), but if the main character was acting as Trump’s double:
“I once caught a fish…I’m actually a very good fisherman. Many people don’t know this, but there are fish in the ocean next to Mar-a-Lago, which is a beautiful, beautiful property, leaders across the world wish that they had a place like mine. This fish was enormous, and the Secret Service people in the boat were saying, ‘Mister President, let us help you with that,’ but I brought the fish in. And once people saw the boat, they were amazed. We came back to the dock, and the fishermen there looked at it, and looked at me, with tears in their eyes, saying, 'I’ve never seen a fish that big and beautiful, how did you catch that?”
[ ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTk1NGQ0MTktODZjOC00MDJkLTliZTktNDQ2YjAyMDU3ZTc0XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/235 "2025-08-31T16:41:59Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Maybe he had ‘work done’.
With what…? An impact drill?
Look… Lots of Dictators have body doubles. Is he sick? Recovering? On a secret grifting mission to Moscow? Railing little boys and girls on a remote island like the sick Pedo he is?
Who can say…?
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### Author:  [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/236 "2025-08-31T17:36:52Z")
> [@Frodo](#):
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> In fact it would be outright dereliction of duty for someone on the left not to start the rumour that the Deep State has already killed Trump and replaced him with a compliant double…
It’s no rumor. I heard it from a very reliable source that this is exactly what’s going on. And as a retired military officer I am privy to a lot of this kind of very reliable super secret information.
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### Author:  [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/237 "2025-08-31T19:08:48Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#):
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> Back In 2016 when he was debating and sniffling A LOT - it was clear he’d sniffed coke or speed. Yet those won’t invigorate a 79 year old day to day. Need other things.
Diet Coke?
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### Author:  [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/238 "2025-08-31T22:10:16Z")
Nah, the bubbles would make him sneeze
- Rodney Dangerfield
This may have been the same debate where he stalked to the rear behind Hilary while she was answering a question.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/239 "2025-08-31T22:16:29Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#):
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> This may have been the same debate where he stalked to the rear behind Hilary while she was answering a question.
I wish I could find the video of that, where Trump’s head was replaced with an ‘evil clown face’.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/240 "2025-08-31T22:19:28Z")
Didn’t one of the Kim Jong Whatever guys from North Korea claim to have gotten something like 16 hole-in-ones in a single golf game?
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