Just because Ford did it, I don’t think it follows that anyone else will for Trump. Some offenses are so toxic that you just can’t chance it. Treason comes to mind.
Ford’s reasoning was that it was best for the country to simply move on from the embarrassment of Nixon and get back to some semblance of normalcy. Some say he was right, but many did not. It cost Ford the election to Carter. This will be in the mind of whomever replaces Trump if Trump’s removal/resignation indeed comes to pass.
Threaten his money. Show him the papers, “Sign the papers and we won’t keep you in court until we get every last dime”. He’s never been anything but rich, show him a hell he can barely imagine. Jail cell? Nah, a studio apartment he can’t afford will do nicely.
He thinks quitting is seen as the worst possible thing, because he knows he’s a phony. What he sees as the worst possible thing is being exposed for what he really is. Which is a fraud, a coward and a simpleton.
Good god. The sky is not falling man.
That’s a whoosh.
Now I’m kinda bummed that he won’t give a speech at Masada, because he would have surely complained that he’s suffering more than the Jews did at Masada.
Hey, maybe I like rebels who don’t kill themselves!
He’s saving his coup de gras for his visit to Poland.
Coup de grace. “Coup de gras” means “blow of fat”. Although “coup de gras” isn’t a bad way of describing the Trump administration in general.
It is.
We are much closer to a political crisis than people realize.
Since this seems to have turned into a thread on how the Trumperdämmerung will play out, here are a few of my random thoughts about this:
First, I don’t think Trump will resign except in the face of even greater humiliation. Which means near-certain impeachment and removal, or removal by 25th Amendment. So all a Trump resignation is likely to do is hasten the end when the end is already upon him.
Second, nearly all of the Congressional Republicans will stick together on Trump’s removal. The moment that there will be just enough Republicans to join with Dems to impeach Trump in the House will be blindingly brief. It will be more like a phase change: one moment, there will be a single-digit number of House Republicans favoring impeachment (or 25th Amendment removal), and the next, there will be >218 favoring it.
Basically, the Freedom Caucus will decide when it’s safe for the rest of the party to support giving Trump the heave-ho. No telling how long it will take for them to get to that point (my money’s on later rather than sooner), or what it’ll take to make it happen, but when it happens, it’ll happen overnight.
Reality is so wacky that it’s hard to tell anymore.
Sidejack: I’ve always been kind of baffled by how pervasive the “coup de gras” malapropism is. I remember a college radio show from way back that was called that; I think it was spelled “Coup de Grâce,” but the student host/DJ pronounced it “coo day grah” and even ran promos where he mocked people who said it wrong (while doing so himself, years before Gaudere’s Law was adopted).
I’m sure it comes from the incorrect assumption that final consonants in French are not pronounced, but as with “vichysoisse,” I almost never hear an English speaker pronounce it correctly.
Anyway, yeah, Trump’s definitely gonna resign, or maybe definitely not.
You’re thinking of Mardi Grace.
I could ask you for a cite, but there are already so many to the contrary.
You mean “the Freedom Caucus hive mind”?
I’m a D&D nerd, and “coup de grace” is a common term in the game, and most players leave off the final /s/ sound, in a hypercorrection.
I may be a D&D nerd, but I’m not a pronunciation asshole, so I just wince inside and let the game continue. Most I’ll do is passive-aggressively pronounce the term correctly, hoping someone notices and double-checks their own pronunciation.
He’ll never resign. Impeachment never gets off the ground in the House unless he gets indicted, and probably not even then. But every little incremental thing that gets worse for him, the more dangerous he’s gonna get.
He and his lackeys came in thinking from the strongman point of view - they would just do whatever they wanted and see what happened, and it partially worked because the House rolled over and showed its belly. He’s playing that classically now - 1. Everything they’re saying about me is false, 2. How dare they question me, even if I did do it.
Pretty much, yeah. 
A sitting president can’t be indicted. At least not for a federal crime.
You know what I’d really like to see? And I think it’s quite possible.
For enough of this to stick to Pence - who has been part of Trump’s inner circle since the election, and was in charge of the transition - so that Pence has to resign too when Trump goes.
Then Paul Ryan becomes President, and it turns out he’s horrible too, trying to take health care away from tens of millions of Americans, giving big tax cuts to the wealthy, not being anything like the serious budget wonk the media portrayed him as, but rather being completely unmasked as the zombie-eyed granny starver (aka ZEGS) that those of us on the left already know he is. The result being that how horrible the GOP is becomes totally unavoidable, and not something that they can pretend was just about Trump.
It’s not absolutely certain that he can’t be, though I agree it’s unlikely.