# 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:** 83
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1642 "2026-02-11T16:09:33Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’d never plug it in in the first place? “Oh, that was the floor buffer cord? Oops.” ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1643 "2026-02-11T16:20:51Z")
You’ve got to plug in the vacuum cleaner _somewhere_! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1644 "2026-02-11T16:34:54Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > Who is his medical proxy? Melania? Boy, what a trust test… but, she IS the spouse. And we know it would devolve anyway into a battle royal between all the immediate family members if it came to that. He’d be the kind to NOT have signed an Advance Directive. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1645 "2026-02-11T16:35:31Z")
There’s a great _Kids In The Hall_ sketch where a family member ‘accidentally’ trips over the plug and Dave Foley comes out of his coma and starts accusing the family member of trying to kill him. (If anyone remembers that sketch and can find a video of it, please post a link.) ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1646 "2026-02-11T18:43:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > There’s a great _Kids In The Hall_ sketch where a family member ‘accidentally’ trips over the plug and Dave Foley comes out of his coma and starts accusing the family member of trying to kill him. I don’t have a link to that sketch, nor do I have a link to the John Belushi/Bill Murray sketch from SNL which sounds like the same exact thing, which I remember quite distinctly. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1647 "2026-02-11T18:55:53Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > I don’t have a link to that sketch, nor do I have a link to the John Belushi/Bill Murray sketch from SNL which sounds like the same exact thing, which I remember quite distinctly. Dang, I would have _sworn_ it was KITH. But you are correct. It was [SNL Season 2, Episode 14](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFtzQtIpXp6/?hl=en). (I don’t have Instagram either, but you can still watch it.) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1648 "2026-02-11T20:51:32Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Also, you don’t need to be very mentally competent to make most of these decisions. My mom was fairly senile at the end. But she was still well enough to choose to hire a full time aide, who mostly cooked, cleaned, and made sure she took her pills. This is one of the reasons my wife and I moved. One of the guest rooms has an in suite bathroom. We are still with it, but see sails on the horizon, writing on the wall. We did get electric bicycles and I’m having a hard time with balance on mine. It’s an odd creature. The balance it self is odd being top heavy as shit. And I’m fighting it. It’s strange because I used to be great on a dirt bike. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2026, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1649 "2026-02-11T23:03:54Z")
HANDWATCH ‘26; the discoloration is now taking up most of the back of his hand [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreietwl72imta7gowz3d34cq5ikhp2bzqzndeewsmvkqzvngm72huuu@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreietwl72imta7gowz3d34cq5ikhp2bzqzndeewsmvkqzvngm72huuu@jpeg) ---
**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:** [February 11, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1650 "2026-02-11T23:07:57Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I volunteer for the position! Pull the plug at the first opportunity! Will there be a monkey scrambling like crazy to put the plug back in…? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1651 "2026-02-12T00:47:00Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Will there be a monkey scrambling like crazy to put the plug back in…? That’s one of the earliest jokes I heard. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2026, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1652 "2026-02-12T19:58:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > That’s one of the earliest jokes I heard. Given that he is so ‘Hitler-esque’ it seemed time appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1653 "2026-02-12T20:31:03Z")
Hm. The one I heard as a kid involved an elephant, and a monkey with a cork. No idea what the Hitler one is. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2026, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1654 "2026-02-12T20:57:41Z")
It’s 1940s… like Rump’s ideology. Don’t think too much about it. None of his people do. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1655 "2026-02-22T15:31:02Z")
Today in WaPo. Spoiler: don’t get your hopes up. > # Armed man shot and killed inside Mar-a-Lago perimeter, Secret Service says > > The Secret Service said the man was observed carrying “what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can.” > > [https://wapo.st/4aAPl88](https://wapo.st/4aAPl88) > U.S. Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man who entered the secure perimeter of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate early Sunday morning, the Secret Service said in a statement. > > Trump was not at Mar-a-Lago this weekend. 🤷🏽‍♀️ > Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw told reporters Sunday morning that the individual, identified as a White man in his early 20s, was carrying a gas canister and a shotgun. > > According to Bradshaw, the officers confronted the man around 1:30 a.m. and ordered him to put down the gas canister and the gun. He put down the canister and “raised the shotgun to a shooting position,” Bradshaw said. > > “At that point in time, the deputy and the two Secret Service agents fired their weapons” and shot and killed the man, who died at the scene, Bradshaw said. > … ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1656 "2026-02-22T16:47:26Z")
Welp. He had gumption. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1657 "2026-02-22T16:51:26Z")
I thought that too. I’ve been surprised that something like this doesn’t happen more often. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1658 "2026-02-22T18:14:07Z")
He seems to have been kinda stupid. Attempting arson when his presumed target wasn’t even there? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2026, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1659 "2026-02-22T18:35:40Z")
Imagine how much tech there must be at that location. Pressure sensors, cameras, infra-red, laser trip wires etc. etc.. Any assault on Maralago is essentially a suicide mission. Maybe the idiot thought Trump goes there every weekend. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1660 "2026-02-22T18:36:42Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Attempting arson when his presumed target wasn’t even there? I would imagine there is an order of magnitude more Secret Service presence when Trump is there. If his goal was arson, waiting until Trump wasn’t home would be a better time to try it although it is absurd to assume any of his properties aren’t being guarded (at significant taxpayer expense) at all times. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/1661 "2026-02-22T18:47:52Z")
It seems to me to be a weird combination of weapons. If you just want to do arson, a shotgun is just going to get in the way of carrying your equipment rather than say a pistol. I can think of _worse_ weapons to use if your goal is assassination, but if you’re doing it specifically when the pres is absent, killing a few mar a lago workers isn’t going to accomplish anything. Unless he mistakenly thought that T would _probably_ be there, but had arson as a backup plan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=82) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=84)