# Trump is dying **URL:** \ **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:** 176
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3505 "2026-07-31T03:22:50Z")
I open this thread every day, not expecting the final, good news, but hoping to hear of at least a fall or hospitalization. Then I get to wondering how I’ll find out when _it_ happens. We joke about celebrating with fireworks and flag extenders (which I am totally for) but what will it really be like? People got persecuted for joking when piece of shit Charlie Kirk got knocked off. Will they try to round up all the folks disrespecting Dear Leader? Because I’m afraid I won’t be able to contain my glee. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3506 "2026-07-31T03:38:49Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > The options are close to the numbers, and i accidentally insert a number all the time, although i usually catch those and fix them. I just figured it was the equivalent of _i18n_ standing in for [internationalization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization), wondered a moment what it might be, and figured someone else would ask. ---
**Author:** ![Ancient\_Nerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3507 "2026-07-31T03:39:18Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > People got persecuted for joking when piece of shit Charlie Kirk got knocked off. An assassination would turn him into a martyr. We need some sort of accident or medical issue. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3508 "2026-07-31T03:42:59Z")
I didn’t say anything about the manner of his death. If I had my druthers, it would be public, painful, lingering, and humiliating. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3509 "2026-07-31T03:51:12Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > If I had my druthers, it would be public, painful, lingering, and humiliating. Please, somebody, get POTUS some tacos with extra lettuce! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3510 "2026-07-31T05:19:49Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > somebody, get POTUS some tacos with extra lettuce! 😉 And undercooked ground beef, for good measure. ---
**Author:** ![Ancient\_Nerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3511 "2026-07-31T05:53:36Z")
Falls can be really bad at that age. Suppose one of the gold thingies high up on the wall of the oval office was a little crooked? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3512 "2026-07-31T06:27:31Z")
I was about to ponder one of the gold thingies falling on his head, but I’m pretty sure they’re plastic, so not heavy enough to make a dent. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3513 "2026-07-31T06:46:05Z")
> [@Ancient\_Nerd](#): > > We need some sort of accident or medical issue. The one thing you can absolutely count on is that _whatever_ happens, MAGA will turn it into a conspiracy. It’s going to be wild. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3514 "2026-07-31T07:03:19Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > … We joke about celebrating with fireworks and flag extenders (which I am totally for) but what will it really be like? … For all the (well deserved) talk of celebration, it would not surprise me if the overall reaction would be similar to when Nixon announced he would resign: a feeling of relief that, as Ford said, “Our long national nightmare is over.” Especially since, right up to the end, one couldn’t escape the concern that Tricky Dick would try some last-ditch tactic such as declaring martial law. On the other hand, of course, our current nightmare will be anything but over. For one thing, Nixon didn’t do a fraction of the damage that the Orange Peril has wrought — and continues to wreak — on the country’s institutions. So cleaning up the mess will be a task not unlike the one Hercules faced with the Augean stables. One which will be faced with relentless opposition, since unlike 1974 MAGA, while perhaps diminished by its patron’s demise, will still be a potent force. So perhaps a celebration will indeed be appropriate before rolling up our political sleeves and getting to work. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3515 "2026-07-31T07:35:41Z")
What protects Trump is the knowledge that if he dies Vance will be President. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3516 "2026-07-31T11:17:23Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I was about to ponder one of the gold thingies falling on his head, but I’m pretty sure they’re plastic, so not heavy enough to make a dent. You’re right: Styrofoam is hardly a deadly projectile. Unless they all fell on him at once and smothered him. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3517 "2026-07-31T12:37:28Z")
> [@Ancient\_Nerd](#): > > Falls can be really bad at that age. Suppose one of the gold thingies high up on the wall of the oval office was a little crooked Then, IMHO, that gold thingy would be The Least Crooked Thing _in_ The Oval Office. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2026, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3518 "2026-07-31T12:39:45Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > One which will be faced with relentless opposition, since unlike 1974 MAGA, while perhaps diminished by its patron’s demise, will still be a potent force. This is why I think it would be better if he doesn’t die in office, a martyr could reinvigorate MAGA, better if he suffers a catastrophic electoral defeat or two first. THEN he can fuck off and die. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3519 "2026-07-31T12:41:41Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > The one thing you can absolutely count on is that _whatever_ happens, MAGA will turn it into a conspiracy. It’s going to be wild. This is absolutely correct. To the core of True Believers and those fanning the flames, disability is impossible, much less death. We’re all looking forward to it, but I do have some trepidation about how the crazed will react. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3520 "2026-07-31T13:42:57Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > The one thing you can absolutely count on is that _whatever_ happens, MAGA will turn it into a conspiracy. The simplest one, which is guaranteed to be invoked immediately upon death (or other serious event for that matter), is that Covid vaccination killed him. No one, not even those over 80 with substantial co-morbidities, can possibly die of natural causes. If only he’d had timely access to plenty of horse-grade ivermectin and spike detox. Other co-conspirators besides the obvious ones like Fauci, Bill Gates and George Soros will include Mossad, James Comey, the Federal Reserve, AOC, the Democratic National Committee, Iran and Communists. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3521 "2026-07-31T14:03:00Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I open this thread every day, not expecting the final, good news, but hoping to hear of at least a fall or hospitalization. Then I get to wondering how I’ll find out when _it_ happens. One Sunday night a few months ago, I fell asleep in front of the TV with the sound muted. I woke up in the wee hours of the morning (2-3am?) to see a closeup of JD Vance’s face on TV with a serious look on his face, talking but muted and I can’t read lips. For a few incandescent seconds I thought "is this it? Is Vance making a live early morning announcement? I scrambled to unmute… …and it turned out they were playing a rerun of the previous morning’s ‘Meet the Press’ and it was just an interview with Vance 😕 I get similar emotions when I see this thread suddenly has like 27 brand new posts and I click on it… ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3522 "2026-07-31T14:28:59Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I get similar emotions when I see this thread suddenly has like 27 brand new posts and I click on it… Then you read 27 complaints about the thread growing so fast without any news about real health issues. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3523 "2026-07-31T14:38:02Z")
Yeah, but this thread is a good outlet. Otherwise we’d all be punching holes in walls, throwing things at our TVs, or possibly kicking our dogs. Okay, not that last one. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3524 "2026-07-31T14:44:24Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I get similar emotions when I see this thread suddenly has like 27 brand new posts and I click on it… Te way to know 'es not dead yet is the thread growth is only 27 posts, not 270 or 2700. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=175) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=177)