As more and more damning information is made public about trump, it seems to me that the most likely scenario is that he will very suddenly resign, and immediately declare to his “base” that he was hounded out of office for telling the truth and trying to help them, something they will believe wholeheartedly.
He’ll then hold some brownshirt rallies in congenial places, bath in the adulation, and go back to cheating people in the private sector.
My feeling is that this will happen in the next month or two.
I can feel that happening. He is not happy in the situation he has gotten himself into. There is little reason to believe he actually wanted to win. After the surprise election win, he tried to figure out how to make the most impact, and resorted to claiming that his campaign promises were of substance, that he could, in fact, come up with a better medical plan right off the top of his head, that he would fix foreign problems through his experience as a negotiator, etc. etc…
He surrounded himself with people who he liked, and fooled himself into believing that success in business or military would translate to ability to get things done in a political sphere. That isn’t working, actually.
Etc. etc. Now he is being hounded by 3/4 of the people in the country, almost all the press, the FBI, a significant slice of congress…and he must now weigh the on one hand, benefit to himself of staying, vs. the other hand, the odds of any real success in making himself into an American Hero are getting longer and longer…and I think, all things considered, the door and the helicopter ride to Dulles and the jet to Mar Lago will continue to look better every day until he simply walks out with an “I quit” note on Presidential Stationery on the big desk in the office he wasn’t good enough to handle.
At this point, I’d be surprised if we end up with a normal election cycle next time–Trump running w/o a primary challenger.
Any other ending: resignation, death, impeachment, 25th, stand-off in the Oval Office because he refuses to leave. I won’t even be surprised if he limps along for 3 more years. But if he does, I expect a weird primary season in 2019.
I’d like to think it will end in murder-suicide with his entire cabinet and family, dramatically arranged in a circle in the Oval Office, but that’s just wishful thinking.
I would prefer that all of them spend the rest of their days in dank prison cells, thinking about their evil ways. Except for Melania. I want her to write a book about the sexual shortcomings of her husband. Then have her marry into the Kennedy family.
He’ll be holding rallies the rest of his miserable life. “I tried to go to Washington and fight for the little guy, fix health care, secure that borders and make America great again, but one thing I wasn’t prepared for is what a sick guy Obama was. He put people in place to make sure that didn’t happen.”
Its a little over 100 days in to his term and there is already an independent counsel investigating his campaign. Does that sound like business as usual to you?
The usual resigner’s claim, that he needed to spend more time with his family, would have to be seen in light of his choice to spend Mother’s Day playing golf.
Hard righties love to promote victimization (“war on Christmas,” “war on Christians,” “liberal/mainstream media lies,” “teh gay agenda,” “we’re being overrun by immigrants,” etc.). Trump, no matter what happens to his presidency, will become their patron saint. I expect he will monetize their worship as soon is humanly possible, if he hasn’t already.
Trump won’t run/will be defeated by the GOP candidates/is only running for publicity/will drop out before the election/will get crushed by Hillary/hates being president/will be prosecuted as Putin’s Knave/will resign/will be forced out for not spending time at the White House/will be impeached any time now/will be impeached for profiting whilst in office/will be impeached for having Comey as an accomplice/will be impeached for firing Comey/will be removed as a warmonger/will be prosecuted for revealing secrets to the Russian Ambassador at an open meeting in the White House/he’s ugly and his mom dresses him funny…
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Trump won’t run/will be defeated by the GOP candidates/is only running for publicity/will drop out before the election/will get crushed by Hillary/hates being president/will be prosecuted as Putin’s Knave/will resign/will be forced out for not spending time at the White House/will be impeached any time now/will be impeached for profiting whilst in office/will be impeached for having Comey as an accomplice/will be impeached for firing Comey/will be removed as a warmonger/will be prosecuted for revealing secrets to the Russian Ambassador at an open meeting in the White House/he’s ugly and his mom dresses him funny…
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Right. Any month now.
I suspect the hope is like the old joke -
‘I can always guess someone’s star sign. For instance, I think yours is Capricorn.’
Heh. Nixon lasted, what, just over five-and-a-half years in office – getting re-elected along the way – before resigning in disgrace? And here we are, with fingers crossed, talking about Trump maybe calling it quits in under five-and-a-half months.