# 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:** 2
**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:** [August 27, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/21 "2025-08-27T08:12:54Z")
Well, yeah..it ain’t going away. He’s old and has a disease. Go visit old people. They always have this bruising. If there were new reports about it, why? The title of the whole thread bugs me as a bit click bait-y. Anyway. Somebody’s gonna choke on their cornflakes in the morning. When you guys hear about the funeral, let me know. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/22 "2025-08-27T08:22:06Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > When you guys hear about the funeral, let me know. Will do. With emphasis on the _fun_. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/23 "2025-08-27T08:26:46Z")
I sometimes get the feeling that @Beckdawrek is a closet Trump fan-girl. Nothing more than a hunch, but whatevs. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/24 "2025-08-27T08:31:18Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Will do. With emphasis on the _fun_. Heh. My ex-wife often said that her family put the _fun_ in dys_fun_ctional. And they did. Migod, some of them were nuts. To her credit, she was fine, and so was her mother, but her brother? He was a bull rider who got his kids … never mind. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/25 "2025-08-27T08:31:51Z")
> [@Nyvaak](#): > > Trump deteriorates obviously and in ways that cannot be covered up or minimized. Because you know, you just _know_ that when Trump’s filthy soul departs his disease ridden body, the conspiracy theorists will be working triple overtime Oh, that’s absolutely going to happen no matter what. It will be the bigliest, most beautiful conspiracy theory the likes of which no one has ever seen before. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/26 "2025-08-27T08:32:29Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > My only wish for Trump’s death is that he not keel over and expire quickly. I want him to linger and suffer, as publicly as possible. The legal matters will sort after he’s gone; they always do. Suddenly all the defenses of Rump will crumble, there will be a whole lot of people saying, “He made me do it…!” like the little kid in JAWs. There will be others sporting the “I was just following orders”.line too. He is like the keystone at the top of a stone arch; with him gone, the arch collapses. Good. That said, he has done so much damage internationally that we ( as a nation ) may never be trusted ever again. The remnants will clutter America like LEGOs left on the floor when your toddlers take a nap. Cleaning them up is essential and stepping on them will hurt… but it will teach us to put the LEGOs away in a box on a very high shelf that is way out of sight. America needs to clean house of MAGA. A clean house is a good thing and the toddlers can always play in some other kids yard down the street. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/27 "2025-08-27T08:42:57Z")
> **[Hostess Recalls Popular Snack Cake Due To Potential Presence of Mold](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hostess-recalls-popular-snack-cake-153000775.html)** > > The J.M. Smucker Co. has issued a recall for select lots of Hostess Ding Dongs due to the potential presence of mold. ( Wait, this is the wrong link. Let me get the right link… ) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/28 "2025-08-27T08:43:45Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > America needs to clean house of MAGA. That’s exactly why I want him to deteriorate and crumble before expiring. The mythical Trump must dissolve _in public_ in order to damage the cult as much as is feasible. If he were to suddenly die right this minute, he gets elevated to the status of demigod, and we’re even more fucked than we already are. Obviously the hardest of the hard core will never allow the veil to be torn away, no matter how long he lingers and suffers. But the longer he clings to a gasping half-life while his minions fret, the more difficult it is to sustain the Trump legend. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2025, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/29 "2025-08-27T09:00:05Z")
I agree with **Beckdawreck** ’s complaint about this thread title being click-bait-y. It gives many people false excitement. Like telling a Lions fan their team has won the Super Bowl when it’s still only the second quarter. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/30 "2025-08-27T09:09:10Z")
I’ve always found it interesting that Trump has been able to hide his cognitive decline by always being an absolute moron and sounding ridiculous whenever he opens his mouth. So as he becomes more and more demented, he just sounds like a slightly exaggerated version of the person he’s always been. Like, imagine if Obama started talking like Trump tomorrow. We’d all know he had a stroke and suffered brain damage. Because he’s always been an intelligent, well-spoken person and that would be a clean break. But Trump has always been a fucking idiot that spouts nonsense constantly and so his regular personality blends seamlessly into his dementia personality. I have to say I’m really curious if he lingers around for a while, and becomes increasingly demented, is there any point where his cult will admit he’s lost his marbles, or will they still be talking about how he’s got the best words and any weird shit he says is a secret qanon signal about some amazing hidden problem he’s fixing? Will he be drooling and saying random words and his cult will still be claiming it’s all 4d chess? Is there some point where the cult has to realize that not only is he suffering from full blown dementia, but he has been this entire time, and they didn’t see it because even when he was firing at 100% he was still a fucking lying moron that couldn’t string together two sentences and acknowledge reality? So I guess if Trump drags on for another year, that’s the only interesting part of it. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/31 "2025-08-27T10:28:37Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > First and foremost, apologies if I am crying wolf here. However, I will remind everyone that the boy who cried wolf wasn’t wrong about the wolf, he was just early. I think you need to read the story again. You’re half right, he wasn’t “wrong” about the wolf, rather the boy deliberately lied about the presence of a wolf. He lied with such frequency that when a real wolf appeared nobody believed the boy when he cried wolf. Unless you’re lying here, and I sure don’t think you are, you’re not crying wolf. > [@Chad\_Sudan](#): > > I don’t want him to evade justice before he dies. That ship sailed in 2024. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/32 "2025-08-27T11:09:01Z")
I wonder if Trump, like other monarchs, has planned his own funeral. The highest gold gilded catafalque, the glass coffin and Kennedys’ procession followed by the lighting of the eternal flame. The eulogies, the wives, the kids, the Supremes, all scripted. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/33 "2025-08-27T11:16:54Z")
KFC at the wake. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/34 "2025-08-27T11:27:30Z")
That would require him to admit to himself that he’s not immortal. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/35 "2025-08-27T11:29:23Z")
Maybe resurrection is part of the script. It’s the MAGA ‘he was only kidding’ thing. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/36 "2025-08-27T11:36:21Z")
We’re all dying, it’s just a matter of when. If he does, I’d be tempted to throw a week-long party, but then I look at what we have for a VP, and I’m scared all over again. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/37 "2025-08-27T11:48:56Z")
I know it’s impossible, but I hope he croaks in such a manner that the conspiracy theories are easily debunked. I mean, being continually subjected to this asshole is tedious enough while he‘s alive. I want him to just be a bad memory, the sooner the better. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/38 "2025-08-27T12:02:21Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > If he deteriorates and slowly collapses, his image of invulnerability disintegrates, and the party will shred itself behind him trying to jockey for succession. For that reason, it won’t surprise me if his own party finds a way to quietly shuffle him off to retirement and install Vance as president. The more he declines, the more embarrassing he gets, the more he, very clearly, has no idea what he’s talking about, the worse it looks. The right can keep showering him with praise, but at a certain point, they know they’re hurting their own credibility by defending all the gibberish he’s spouting. > [@Alessan](#): > > If Trump dies, fast or slow, Vance will be president. Other than him being impeached (which won’t happen), there’s no legal framework to keep him out of office. So having Trump die slowly just gives Cujel the Clever a transition period. Better to parachute his unqualified ass directly into the position and watch him drown. The succession wars will happen either way. I read somewhere, and I don’t know if it’s true, that they want to hold off until they make it halfway through the term so Vance can takeover the remainder of the term and still be eligible for two full terms of his own. Like I said, no idea if it’s true, but it sounds plausible. Personally, I felt the beginning of the end was a few weeks ago when he started bringing big posters to press conferences. I know that’s nothing new, but it seems like he was showing off the posters instead of talking to the cameras. I suppose maybe they were to hide or distract from bruising on his hands, but, at least to me, it looked like someone said “Here’s the posters, Mr President, just show them to the cameras, say ‘look at these beautiful numbers, they’re the greatest numbers anyone’s ever seen’” and walk off stage. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/39 "2025-08-27T12:17:28Z")
I doubt Trump will die quietly. It has to be spectacular, involving explosions, rioting, and arson. I remember the MASH episode where a warhawk general died in Margaret’s tent, and the aide wanted to arrange it to look like he died in battle. He called around and couldn’t find any fighting to stage the death. I think Trump’s enablers will attempt a similar staging and fail. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/40 "2025-08-27T12:19:02Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > I wonder if Trump, like other monarchs, has planned his own funeral. The highest gold gilded catafalque, the glass coffin and Kennedys’ procession followed by the lighting of the eternal flame. The eulogies, the wives, the kids, the Supremes, all scripted. “Do you think that it will be a Viking Funeral?” “A row boat and a Mark 48 torpedo…?” \< [artist’s conception](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34) \> [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=3)