# 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:** 185
**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:** [August 31, 2026, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3685 "2026-08-31T19:07:47Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > There’s “reveal”, and then there’s “testify about in court”. I just want to know the REVEAL part right now. I thought Dopers might have some imaginative suggestions. Or agree with me that nothing he has ever done would surprise anyone. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2026, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3686 "2026-08-31T19:27:16Z")
What does any of this talk have to do with **Trump** dying? The Barron assassination news was posted in the wrong thread. There are plenty of Trump threads in the Pit that it would belong in. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3687 "2026-08-31T19:47:07Z")
Sadly, Trump doesn’t seem to be doing any faster than the rest of us. He’s old, he’s in bad shape, but i haven’t seen any signs of imminent death. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3688 "2026-08-31T19:52:27Z")
While, of course, I take your point, I would argue that a nation-state/foreign actor putting a hit out on ANY Trump might be tangential, but wouldn’t be orthogonal. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3689 "2026-08-31T20:11:07Z")
Maybe they miss and hit Donny. We can dream. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3690 "2026-08-31T21:06:22Z")
I have a better dream. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3691 "2026-08-31T21:11:58Z")
Naw, any violent death of Trump would be a disaster for the US. I’m rooting for a stroke while he’s televised. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3692 "2026-08-31T21:58:33Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > just want to know the REVEAL part right now. > > I thought Dopers might have some imaginative suggestions. Or agree with me that nothing he has ever done would surprise anyone. There are things he might have done that would surprise many, and they all involve Donald doing something kind for, say, a black person. If Mel had proof that Donald had done what Arnold Schwarzenegger **did** do----father a child by a non-white woman, and then go on to support both woman and child----that would be profoundly disturbing to MAGA minds. Of course it’s not impossible that Donald was less insistent on White Women a few decades back and could have fathered a child. But it is absolutely inconceivable (heh) that he would have provided a penny of support to either mother or child. So, realistically speaking: _What Melania Could Tell,_ something that could actually harm Donald, is much more likely to be related to his being weak and/or sick. She may know things about his actual diagnosis or actual symptoms that would genuinely bother his fans. Video of his diaper being changed, for example, would disturb them…and all it would take would be a recording device discreetly left in the right place. It’s not impossible that Melania has provided herself with something of this kind, and let Donald know that ‘if something happens’ to her, it will be released. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3693 "2026-08-31T23:05:32Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I’m rooting for a stroke while he’s televised. You mean a stroke caused by the Deep State’s secret device that causes strokes? There’s no Trump death that won’t be some level of disaster for the US. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3694 "2026-08-31T23:15:04Z")
Healthiest president ever, folks. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreibkwtrr4wgmk2ymwpa26fa3xpwv7cn3purb2pwa4qacwbh6ll4vze) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreibkwtrr4wgmk2ymwpa26fa3xpwv7cn3purb2pwa4qacwbh6ll4vze) ---
**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:** [August 31, 2026, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3695 "2026-08-31T23:19:10Z")
I once left an orange out and it got dessicated after awhile. It looked sort of like that picture but healthier. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2026, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3696 "2026-08-31T23:49:09Z")
Smarter too. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3697 "2026-08-31T23:50:50Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Video of his diaper being changed, for example, would disturb them I don’t know who “them” is, but count me in. I can be disturbed and laughing my ass off at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3698 "2026-09-01T18:36:22Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > I can be disturbed and laughing my ass off at the same time. Kind of an encapsulation of the Trump years altogether, really… ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3699 "2026-09-03T02:30:18Z")
What goes around, comes around. [![](https://i.ibb.co/VY04MFYY/0e9dd90b-b819-4ba8-b9ed-f9a7725468c2.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/VY04MFYY/0e9dd90b-b819-4ba8-b9ed-f9a7725468c2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3700 "2026-09-03T23:28:53Z")
Context for the second photo? ---
**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:** [September 4, 2026, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3701 "2026-09-04T00:43:23Z")
He looks like he’s about to lose his lunch. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3702 "2026-09-04T02:38:52Z")
Never mind, the point I was raising has been hashed out since the post I was jumping off from. I’ll go back to reading the obituary pages assiduously – oh, hell, who am I kidding? I’ll just tune in to CNN once a day or so, or look for the email blurt from one of the news sources I follow. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3703 "2026-09-04T03:30:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I thought Dopers might have some imaginative suggestions. Well, we know at least one of Epstein’s victims was trans. We know Trump _hates_ trans people. We also know Trump is particularly vulnerable to hoaxes. So what I think happened back in the day is that Epstein (with Melania’s involvement) told him that the semen of a trans person was basically the fountain of youth. Cue Trump _over-consuming_ it in his habitual manner to the point where Epstein now cannot spoil the joke because of how far it has gone, so he plays along (as documented in that creepy birthday letter about their “shared secret”). Epstein knew that one day Trump would figure it out but until then, he would just try not to laugh. And then that day came and that’s when Trump stopped talking to Epstein. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/3704 "2026-09-04T04:59:04Z")
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