# Trump's designated survivor **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 28, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034 "2017-02-28T15:02:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/21 "2017-03-01T02:59:24Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > She’s ineligible because she is a naturalized citizen, rather than natural born. Where she was born is not directly relevant since many natural born US citizens were born outside the US. I am so glad for your post. It still seems like a lot of folks confuse “natural born” with “not born in the US” ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/22 "2017-03-01T03:02:28Z")
I bet Trump had himself cloned to be his 'designated survivor '! ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/23 "2017-03-01T03:41:01Z")
I was afraid it would be Bannon (somehow)… ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/24 "2017-03-01T03:54:16Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > I think we need a president named Wilbur. > > Alternatively, Chao, just because it’ll annoy my wife even more than she is now that someone else became the first female US president. Bill? 😕 > [@astorian](#): > > First, it’s Mad Dog Mattis. > > Despite the nickname, Mattis deserves some credit for convincing Trump tat torture is unproductive as well as immoral (“I can get more information with a cigarette”). I want H. R. McMaster. Is there some reason he’s been left off the list? And I agree that Sessions is the worst. I believe he, like Bannon, is a hard-core white supremacist. I think they are slightly more dangerous that the fundamentalist Christians. WS’s want to kill minorities of both sexes, while FCs just want to subjugate women, regardless of color. But we women are tough, we’ve been here before, and we’ll survive four years of that. Better us being unhappy for four years than to get to 2020 with entire genetic types/populations starved, incarcerated, executed or deported. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2017, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/25 "2017-03-01T04:19:51Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I want H. R. McMaster. Is there some reason he’s been left off the list? He doesn’t hold a cabinet-level position, and is therefore not in the line of succession. Also, since he’s still active duty, he needs a Senate approval for his assignment to NSA, which he hasn’t gotten yet. I only included people serving Trump who have been fully confirmed by the Senate. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/26 "2017-03-01T15:16:32Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Can we just all agree it should Keifer Southerland. Rumors say… he’s born Canadian and exported here because he was always a ‘hide behind the apron strings’ trouble maker Asshole and the Canadian kids wouldn’t stand for it (and his parents wouldn’t stand for him getting any of the beatings he well-and-truly deserved). Likes to start fights in public and bars, but only when there are PLENTY of people behind him to finish the fight for him. Glass jaw, chicken shit, brave in a crowd. You know the ‘type’. Wasn’t it “I Claudius” that said, “The way to be seen as a great leader is to leave a worse leader behind you”? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/27 "2017-03-01T16:50:30Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Alec Baldwin Please, G-d, this! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/28 "2017-03-01T16:51:49Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I am so glad for your post. It still seems like a lot of folks confuse “natural born” with “not born in the US” I we talking Born in the USA, or Caesarean section? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/29 "2017-03-01T20:17:45Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I we talking Born in the USA, or Caesarean section? :dubious: Dash it all, the Constitution of the United States is not _Macbeth_ or _Lord of the Rings_! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/30 "2017-03-01T20:29:30Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > Dash it all, the Constitution of the United States is not _Macbeth_ or _Lord of the Rings_! 😉 They snip all women giving birth now, so by that definition, no one can be President. :dubious: That was to keep out the Lithuanians, dammit! “Know you that McDuff was from his Mother’s womb untimely ripped.” MacBeth:\* “dammit!”\* ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/31 "2017-03-01T20:31:42Z")
How did you get LOTR out of my comment? Are you Lithuanian?:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/32 "2017-03-01T20:38:52Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > How did you get LOTR out of my comment? Sorry, confused the “not of woman born” prophecy-workaround in _Macbeth_ with the “I am no man!” prophecy-workaround in _LOTR_. > [@](#): > > Are you Lithuanian?:dubious: Nope, 100% Irish. All-year-round and not just in March like a lot of people. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034/33 "2017-03-01T20:51:25Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > Sorry, confused the “not of woman born” prophecy-workaround in _Macbeth_ with the “I am no man!” prophecy-workaround in _LOTR_. Ah. Thanks! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-designated-survivor/781034.md?page=1)