# Trump will resign

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-will-resign/786922>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 18, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-will-resign/786922 "2017-05-18T14:38:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-will-resign/786922/121 "2017-05-22T16:38:40Z")

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[Trump Country congressman](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/a-gop-congressman-from-kentucky-wonders-is-this-trump-thing-sustainable/2017/05/20/1cbd5374-3c16-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.184e446d81be&wpisrc=nl_p1most-partner-1&wpmm=1) wonders “if the Trump thing is sustainable”.

If enough of them decide it isn’t, then it won’t be.

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**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-will-resign/786922/122 "2017-05-23T00:03:01Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> As I said in another thread, if somehow Trump can cobble together The Ultimate Deal (his words, and believe me, I hate quoting them) and get some kind of fairly solid _\<something\>_ going between the Israelis and the Palestinians, something that HE can label “Peace” (and get a critical mass of media to agree with that label), THEN I can see him resigning.
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> He will have achieved **apotheosis** \*, and then-- and only then-- can he leave office a **winner** [this is the ONE condition for him to resign], trailing clouds of glory, devil take the hindmost, “who’s a [del]90[/del] 290-lb weakling with tiny hands” _now_, etc., etc.

I think [Apocolocyntosis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocolocyntosis) would be more appropriate.

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**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:** [May 23, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-will-resign/786922/123 "2017-05-23T00:10:35Z")

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> [@glowacks](#):
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> I think [Apocolocyntosis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocolocyntosis) would be more appropriate.

Very interesting. I do like the translation, “Pumpkinification.”

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