# What will the Republicans do if Trump implodes before the convention? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 7, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709 "2016-06-07T02:32:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/41 "2016-06-07T16:58:18Z")
[Trump Soho](http://therealdeal.com/2016/04/06/secret-criminal-investigation-targeted-fraud-at-trump-soho-report/) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/42 "2016-06-07T17:00:11Z")
I’m sill convinced he doesn’t really want to be president, and would not be surprised if he sabotaged his own campaign to lose, and then blames on the press for going after his “gotta be me, politically incorrect” wonderfulness. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/43 "2016-06-07T17:00:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Do you have any evidence that Mr. Trump is currently under any criminal investigation? I could easily put up a foot-long post just of links to news about his fraud problems over Trump University. Not even any actual verbiage from them, just the links! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/44 "2016-06-07T17:03:08Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I tend to doubt it. When the election is over, he goes back to his business and he won’t have a soap box to stand on any longer. Republicans won’t be giving him the time of day since he will have steered their ship squarely into the reef. Nobody is going to care about his political views and his career as a reality star will be over. I’m with you on the GOP part – but the _other_ part, about routinely putting him or his latest soundbite on the air, isn’t that the “he’s gotten billions of dollars worth of free advertising because the media loves covering his latest announcement” bit? ---
**Author:** ![ebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@ebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ebb)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/45 "2016-06-07T17:03:15Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I almost felt bad for Corker. Having seen _Veep_, I picture him going back to the green room and unleashing a blue streak of profanity toward his staff for putting him in that impossible position! Being a surrogate in the Trump campaign is only marginally more demeaning than being a surrogate in _The Handmaid’s Tale_ ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/46 "2016-06-07T17:17:26Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’m with you on the GOP part – but the _other_ part, about routinely putting him or his latest soundbite on the air, isn’t that the “he’s gotten billions of dollars worth of free advertising because the media loves covering his latest announcement” bit? If I understand it correctly, his money making scheme isn’t so much about actually building stuff, but licensing his name to stuff other investors build while using his brand. What will his “brand” be worth after this spectacular shit show? ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/47 "2016-06-07T17:18:20Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > He pays no heed to anyone or anything other than himself. What makes you think he looks at or believes polls? All through the primaries–_ **and especially during the debates** _–he was _ **constantly** _ referring to the polls. For Trump, the polls have been a teleological justification of his free rein–of his carte blanche to pay no heed to anyone or anything, as you say. Granted, I agree that he would readily ignore the polls for any other reason, but he is so wedded to the identity of being a “winner” – or perhaps just not being a loser – that it seems conceivable he would indeed pay them heed when it comes down to the final line. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/48 "2016-06-07T17:23:26Z")
> [@ebb](#): > > Being a surrogate in the Trump campaign is only marginally more demeaning than being a surrogate in _The Handmaid’s Tale_ Ha! Yes indeed. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > _“…You know, my lawyers told me that I had a strong case, a very strong case, I could have been president if we’d taken it to court, and I still might, if this sort of incompetence continues, because I’d be ten times, twenty times more competent than she is, she’s a liar and a criminal and she can’t even do the job, which I think is very sad, and why isn’t she behind bars yet?”_ This is pitch perfect! > [@BobLibDem](#): > > I tend to doubt it. When the election is over, he goes back to his business and he won’t have a soap box to stand on any longer. Republicans won’t be giving him the time of day since he will have steered their ship squarely into the reef. Nobody is going to care about his political views and his career as a reality star will be over. He’ll retire in relative obscurity and in maybe twenty years we’ll hear that he died and say “oh yeah, I remember that asshole”. I think you’re forgetting how high a profile he had in politics \*before \*the election. And now he’ll have all his rabid fans and be a former GOP nominee! But take for example [this Onion article from way back in 2012:](http://www.theonion.com/article/donald-trump-stares-forlornly-at-tiny-aged-penis-i-28589) > [@](#): > > **Donald Trump Stares Forlornly At Tiny, Aged Penis In Mirror Before Putting On Clothes, Beginning Day** > […] > “God, look at this thing,” said a dejected Trump, hoisting up a large quantity of belly flab with his forearm to make his stunted organ visible. “Pitiful.” > > Trump, who in just over an hour would be appearing on the morning show Fox And Friends to assert that the president of the United States was not an American citizen, is said to have grasped the bulb of his penis with his thumb and forefinger and stretched the organ to its full 3-inch length before letting it go and leaving it to loll on an unruly tangle of mostly gray pubic hair. > […] > Sources confirmed Trumpthen received a phone call from an Associated Press reporter asking him to respond to charges that he was a “blowhard” and a “bully,” allegations Trump managed to address despite his preoccupation with the condition of his sexual organ. > > “I’m rich and famous, and everyone wants to be me,” Trump told the caller, all the while struggling to recall the last time he was able to achieve even a partial erection. “That doesn’t make me a bully. That just makes me better than most people.” > > “There’s never been a success story like mine in the history of America,” continued Trump, who briefly tipped the phone away from his mouth as he licked his palm and began tugging on his penis with a loose fist. “I’m a phenomenon, and I don’t care who knows it—of course, everyone already does.” > > Upon disconnecting, Trump continued to stroke vigorously for three full minutes before giving up in exhaustion. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/49 "2016-06-07T17:30:16Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > [Trump Soho](http://therealdeal.com/2016/04/06/secret-criminal-investigation-targeted-fraud-at-trump-soho-report/) Your link states that the criminal investigation has been closed. So what he is going to be arrested for? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/50 "2016-06-07T17:34:35Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Your link states that the criminal investigation has been closed. So what he is going to be arrested for? Trolling an entire nation. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/51 "2016-06-07T18:02:14Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > It’s hard to see how Trump can implode. What can he do in the next few weeks that’s more outrageous than what he’s already done? Well, he could call Hillary a bitch or use the “C”-word in front of a live mic on television in reference to her or some other female who has gotten under his tissue paper thin skin. Of course, there is no guarantee Ryan, McConnell or any of the other spinally impaired party leaders would rebuke him for that. Or he could suggest someone should shoot her. Not likely to alienate his base but I would hope that would get the party establishment to say enough is enough. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/52 "2016-06-07T18:11:17Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I don’t get this attitude. Whatever his actual IQ or psychiatric diagnosis, the man is a successful businessman; his career has suffered various setbacks from which he has come back. He’s not stupid or severely delusional. > > I still think the whole thing is a publicity prank that went too far, and _ **he’s hoping to lose** _, but by a small margin. Are you kidding me? The man’s a freaking nutbar. His business success has been fueled by basically being more ruthless than anybody else. And because of that success, he’s convinced his shit don’t stink. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/53 "2016-06-07T22:25:04Z")
> [@ebb](#): > > Being a surrogate in the Trump campaign is only marginally more demeaning than being a surrogate in _The Handmaid’s Tale_ But it’s the only job Chris Christie can get now. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/54 "2016-06-07T23:29:50Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > If I understand it correctly, his money making scheme isn’t so much about actually building stuff, but licensing his name to stuff other investors build while using his brand. > > What will his “brand” be worth after this spectacular shit show? Quite a bit, though a lot less from the upscale elite segment and a lot more from a larger downmarket base. There will still be a lot of people who’ll buy what he brands and more than a few investors who will not be above going after that market and associating with him to do so. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > It’s hard to see how Trump can implode. What can he do in the next few weeks that’s more outrageous than what he’s already done? Yeah, really. As of one year ago conventional wisdom was that any politician who said even one tenth of what he has said would be dead meat. Yet look t him now. > [@Gyrate](#): > > The Republicans’ current strategy is clearly in “he may be that crazy bigoted uncle who spews uncontrollable profanity at the Thanksgiving dinner table, but he’s _family_” mode. So we see an ongoing succession of party bigwigs distancing themselves from the latest ludicrous pronouncement from Uncle Donald while at the same time declaring that of course they are still supporting his run for the White House. > > At this point I think there’s pretty much nothing Trump could say that would deter his followers short of the “dead girl/live boy” scenario (and frankly I’m not even sure about the “dead girl” part). He may genuinely have to get caught redhanded [sic] on camera buggering a toddler before the GOP decides that enough is enough. This is where American politics is at. Yep, he’s entirely an embarassment and someone you can’t stand and will make a dog’s breakfast of the economy… but, but… NO!!! NOT A DEMOCRAT!!! NNOOOOOOO!!! He was not kidding when he said short of shooting someone in broad daylight in the middle of 5th Avenue he could do anything and he’d keep going up in the poll. His followers \*want \*someone who is “out of fucks to give” and can get away with it, _they wish they were that guy_. The Trumpeteers are now scaring the Machine Republicans worse than the Tea Party did, and even the Tea Party-sponsored officeholders are looking kind of pale. Of course, they desperately want the Trumpistas to vote for them instead of deciding they are “part of the problem”. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/55 "2016-06-08T00:19:05Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Huh. > > You know, Trump has a long history of – publicity-seeking? Maybe self-promotion? Whatever you want to call it. But this last year, it’s been huge _even for him_. > > So let’s say what Vegas says will happen will happen: Clinton becomes the next President of these United States. > > Are we in for four years of Trump saying – whenever anything even arguably goes wrong – _“This would not have happened on my watch. Would not have happened, okay? If not for the crooked system, and by the way I earned millions more votes than she did, and if not for the crooked system, I would have stopped this from happening. You know, my lawyers told me that I had a strong case, a very strong case, I could have been president if we’d taken it to court, and I still might, if this sort of incompetence continues, because I’d be ten times, twenty times more competent than she is, she’s a liar and a criminal and she can’t even do the job, which I think is very sad, and why isn’t she behind bars yet?”_ > > (Yes, even if he _didn’t_ earn millions more votes than she did; that’s kind of my point. Every time there’s a high-profile crime: “It’s because there’s no WALL! I would’ve built a wall, I would’ve made Mexico pay for it, and all of these deaths are on her hands, because she’s not doing what anyone with an OUNCE OF SENSE would’ve done!” Will he announce that without fail each time, regardless of whether anyone involved (a) was here illegally; or, y’know, (b) died?) You may be right. She might have to run a Vince Foster play on him… ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/56 "2016-06-08T00:38:44Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The Republicans’ current strategy is clearly in “he may be that crazy bigoted uncle who spews uncontrollable profanity at the Thanksgiving dinner table, but he’s _family_” mode. So you’re saying he’s Drunk Uncle? I can see that. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/57 "2016-06-08T00:51:23Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Country is always more important than party. When will Democrats realize that? The veritable definition of putting our country ahead of a party is to never vote for a Republican. When will you realize that? ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/58 "2016-06-08T00:52:15Z")
Top article on Huffington Post is [Trump Implodes](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-senators-donald-trump_us_57571fcfe4b0b60682df2e27) ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/59 "2016-06-08T00:52:45Z")
If you’d support Alan Grayson over John Kasich that would be putting party over country. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709/60 "2016-06-08T01:06:24Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > If you’d support Alan Grayson over John Kasich that would be putting party over country. Continuing to throw partisan bombs in this thread is putting being inflammatory over real discussion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-if-trump-implodes-before-the-convention/756709.md?page=4)