# "We will be back in some form" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 20, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983 "2021-01-20T16:40:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/41 "2021-01-22T00:21:13Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > When he said this, I immediately envisioned him unzipping his skinsuit to allow thousands of squirming grubs to spill free. Me too - specifically I was thinking Vincent D’Onofrio from the first Men In Black movie. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/42 "2021-01-22T00:26:12Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Trump tv has been mentioned since the first election. I think that was the plan if he had originally lost? > > It may still happen. We wish him as much success in this venture as [he has displayed in his many other business ventures](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trumps-13-biggest-business-failures-59556/). Stranger ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/43 "2021-01-22T00:33:36Z")
They’re already vermicious knids. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/44 "2021-01-22T00:51:10Z")
I totally agree Trump’s brand is completely shattered. The Jan 6 Capitol attack ended his political future. I hope the Impeachment trial ends Trump’s political ambitions permanently. Ivanka may run for office in Florida. Otherwise the Trumps are poison. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ivanka-trump-is-eyeing-florida-to-kick-start-her-political-career-and-could-opt-to-run-for-senate-sources-say/ar-BB1bSpXw](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ivanka-trump-is-eyeing-florida-to-kick-start-her-political-career-and-could-opt-to-run-for-senate-sources-say/ar-BB1bSpXw) ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/45 "2021-01-22T01:08:37Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > _Donald Trump and the World Crime League_ We so need a Like button here. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/46 "2021-01-22T01:20:23Z")
Unless Ivanka’s the face of it it’ll fail. Too much of the old man and even the faithful would get disenchanted as they realize he’s rapidly getting stupider and more senile. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/codinghorror/32/4242_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/47 "2021-01-22T01:36:33Z")
I _sincerely_ hope they are back in the form of a splintered Republican Party… the “Freedom Party” or whatever BS name they want to call it. Siphon off those R votes. Make it happen! 🙏 ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/48 "2021-01-22T02:34:37Z")
Well, he still has one supporter: _VICE_: " We Spoke to a Lone Trump Supporter at Biden’s Inauguration" [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xL_hnA2u-SA/maxresdefault.jpg "We Spoke to a Lone Trump Supporter at Biden's Inauguration") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL_hnA2u-SA) > Vice: “Trump has repeatedly said that the election was stolen. Do you believe that?” > Guy: “I do believe it, yes. It was stolen by their incompetence and by their carelessness.” > Vice: “Who’s they?” > Guy: “The Trump campaign.” With supporters like this, who needs the GOP? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/49 "2021-01-22T03:20:47Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > When he said this, I immediately envisioned him unzipping his skinsuit to allow thousands of squirming grubs to spill free. Like [Oogie Boogie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCciW37wa5w) in _The Nightmare Before Christmas._ ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/50 "2021-01-22T05:07:30Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Trump tv has been mentioned since the first election. I think that was the plan if he had originally lost? > > It may still happen. Conservative tv already has several options. Fox is no longer the only conservative channel. > > I won’t watch. But there’s an audience out there for a Trump tv channel. He can’t get the money to back it, and he doesn’t have the stamina to appear on it. It’s just too much work, and he’s too depressed to think about it (I hope). I predict it won’t happen. He may hook up with some news network (new or existing) as an occasional flapping mouth, but it won’t add up to anything. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/51 "2021-01-22T12:10:05Z")
I don’t disagree with the immediate above. But it brings a thought. It’s a hell of a note that perhaps the only reason we don’t suffer a Fascist takeover in the next 4 years is that the Fascist-in-Chief is too elderly / infirm to work that hard. How many civilizations have been saved by Father Time? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/52 "2021-01-22T12:50:35Z")
Possibly, as a generalization — nearly everyone loses a step. Kim Jong-Il dying old, of natural causes, rather than being eliminated by a hungry successor, for example, may be something of an exception. But in Trump’s specific case, I would say that he’s always been lazy and stupid. The red button he had on his desk — “press and a Diet Pepsi will appear” — can be extrapolated to his whole career. He’s always sat in the center of his network of made men, issuing demands and stating desires, and waited for other people to figure out the details and deliver the results. He has never, ever been one to roll up his sleeves and sweat out the specifics. His political power over the last few years, and his success as a leader (such as it is), came because smarter people behind the scenes recognized that he was a very powerful Noise Cannon that could be aimed at various obstacles. He himself never actually _did_ anything. ETA: The point being, of course, now that he’s no longer surrounded by such people, and/or they no longer have much interest in him, his power to do anything more than just make noise is dissipating rapidly. I concede it may be dangerous noise, but there’s no action accompanying it. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/53 "2021-01-24T22:59:21Z")
[![](https://assets.mugglenet.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Quirinus-Quirrell-520x245.jpg) ](https://assets.mugglenet.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Quirinus-Quirrell-520x245.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/54 "2021-01-24T23:08:44Z")
Or maybe: [![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5f/6d/21/5f6d2106dde9c8e79c289d7f3218eccc.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5f/6d/21/5f6d2106dde9c8e79c289d7f3218eccc.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/55 "2021-01-24T23:59:08Z")
You can still buy the Donald Trump Toilet Brush. [https://www.amazon.com/Bioexcel-Donald-Trump-Toilet-Holder/dp/B07KW7526B](https://www.amazon.com/Bioexcel-Donald-Trump-Toilet-Holder/dp/B07KW7526B) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/56 "2021-01-25T01:28:50Z")
Now _that_ is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/57 "2021-01-26T04:55:42Z")
He’s baaaaaaaaaaaack! As noted and discussed in the immortal Clusterfuck thread, Trump has created an “Official” 🙄 “Office of the Former President”, from which he will attempt to use his vestigial political clout to maintain and continue the Trump Administration. > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux/911083/9303): > > Individual 1 has opened “The Office of the Former President” to handle his correspondence and activites. His use of the Great Seal is probably illegal. > ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/58 "2021-01-27T23:18:49Z")
You might remember, some comic genius created a modified Seal Of The President featuring a two-headed Russian eagle. Instead of lightning bolts and olive branches, its claws held golf clubs and a bunch of money. The banner in its beak said, “45 es un titere.” Somebody managed to get it mounted on the lectern at one of Trump’s speeches. [https://one-term-donnie.myshopify.com/collections/shirts/products/donnies-presidential-seal](https://one-term-donnie.myshopify.com/collections/shirts/products/donnies-presidential-seal) ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/59 "2021-01-28T16:57:57Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > The banner in its beak said, “45 es un titere.” _Sin titere. Tu eres la titere._ ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983/60 "2021-03-21T22:58:34Z")
**Update** > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Donald Trump and the World Crime League Sadly, there is more of a chance to see Trump coming back with his own ~~anti~~ social media group than to see the promised sequel to Buckaroo Banzai. > **[Trump looking to launch social media platform, adviser says](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-social-media-platform-plans/)** > > "I do think that we're going to see President Trump returning to social media, probably in about two or three months here, with his own platform," Trump adviser Jason Miller said. Although we may have the chance to see Peter Weller approach Trump and henchmen in his production building and point at them and make them run like hell when Weller says: > **Buckaroo Banzai:** > [There! Evil PURE AND SIMPLE by way of the Eighth Dimension! Burn them!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjlI8HrbKNc) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-be-back-in-some-form/930983.md?page=4)