# What's going to happen to Trump and his family if Dems win next year? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418 "2019-08-29T15:26:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/101 "2019-09-01T04:59:22Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > Except that the Trump brand is close to worthless now, so they’re not going to make money by just slapping it all over buildings and businesses. > > I’m not a Trump fan or anything, but why would you assume that? You don’t have to be a Trump fan or a Trump hater to recognize that some people react negatively to his name. His name has already been removed from hotels in Panama, Toronto and New York, as well as condos in New York. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/102 "2019-09-01T09:03:23Z")
“some people react negatively to his name” would seem to be a long ways from “close to worthless”. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/103 "2019-09-01T13:42:15Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I’m not a Trump fan or anything, but why would you assume that? Its market value is so far gone that[it’s a liability now.](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-businesses-take-a-hit-as-the-brand-has-lost-its-mojo-2018-12-23) Except for his DC hotel, and that will be for only as long as he can return favors with our money. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/104 "2019-09-01T21:35:27Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Maybe another TV show. Probably a book and speeches. The Dems don’t have the attention span to do anything, and once he’s out of office the motivation behind the investigations will peter out. > > There will be a flurry of Pit threads for a month or two, followed by a flurry of new ones with the same tone and rhetoric aimed at whoever they are told is the next Republican monster. > > If he’s re-elected, stocks in pail and mop companies will sky rocket, to clean up the exploding heads. > > Regards, > Shodan agreed! Trump has made a life-time career of operating just on the legal side of the law. He is a smart man and hasn’t lost his touch. As for the attention span of the Dems, I point out that by 2 days after Trump took office all the Clinton investigations started to wrap up and go away. Except as chants at political rallies. Those last forever on both sides. Almost all these “investigations” on either side are political moves. Once the election is past, these lose relevance. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/105 "2019-09-01T22:16:00Z")
I’d like to see a RICO investigation on the Trump Organizations. Cry Havoc and let slip the IRS forensic accountants. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/106 "2019-09-02T00:35:10Z")
> [@rbroome](#): > > agreed! > Trump has made a life-time career of operating just on the legal side of the law. He is a smart man and hasn’t lost his touch. As for the attention span of the Dems, I point out that by 2 days after Trump took office all the Clinton investigations started to wrap up and go away. Except as chants at political rallies. Those last forever on both sides. Almost all these “investigations” on either side are political moves. Once the election is past, these lose relevance. Ha, ha,hahaa, hahh. He’s nothing more than a lucky moron. If he hadn’t been given his dad’ money, he would be collecting shopping carts in the Walmart parking lot. Haaahahahahh. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/107 "2019-09-02T01:11:01Z")
What’s happening to them now? Only the president can’t be indicted at present, the others could be and aren’t. And if Trump isn’t even being impeached, I dont see him being in jail. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/108 "2019-09-02T01:53:33Z")
> [@Ashtura](#): > > … And if Trump isn’t even being impeached, I dont see him being in jail. These two statements don’t have anything to do with each other. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/109 "2019-09-02T17:59:53Z")
Trump pardons himself for every Federal offense he might have committed since he was born, doesn’t lift a finger to help the genuflecting, pleading Mike Pence in the next election, and watches dispassionately as all of his family try to cash in on being related to a disgraced, reviled one-term President. And Melania files for divorce. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/110 "2019-09-02T18:16:57Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I’d like to see a RICO investigation on the Trump Organizations. Cry Havoc and let slip the IRS forensic accountants. That would be perfect. ALL assets even maybe belonging to Trump would be seized. So I guess that would leave everyone–Melania, Jarred, Ivanka, the others–everyone homeless. Or at least entirely reliant upon public defenders as they transition to a more structured form of government housing. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/111 "2019-09-02T18:25:03Z")
He’ll end up like his fellow bad hair enthusiast, Dean Reed. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/112 "2019-09-02T18:29:40Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > That would be perfect. ALL assets even maybe belonging to Trump would be seized. So I guess that would leave everyone–Melania, Jarred, Ivanka, the others–everyone homeless. Or at least entirely reliant upon public defenders as they transition to a more structured form of government housing. Trump would get tipped off, and his assets moved to where they couldn’t be seized. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/113 "2019-09-02T18:44:55Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Given the Mueller report, if Dems win the Justice Department will be free to prosecute them for the crimes outlined in the report. I expect that to happen. Yep, orange jumpsuits all around. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/114 "2019-09-02T19:05:55Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > That would be perfect. ALL assets even maybe belonging to Trump would be seized. So I guess that would leave everyone–Melania, Jarred, Ivanka, the others–everyone homeless. Or at least entirely reliant upon public defenders as they transition to a more structured form of government housing. It wouldn’t leave Jared and Ivanka homeless. The Kushner family real estate empire is at least as big as the Trump empire. And quite possibly even more crooked. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/115 "2019-09-02T21:28:39Z")
Could a defeated president still face some federal procedure (obviously not impeachment) to A)deny him the pension. B)Strip him of Secret Service protection. C) Prevent him from seeking the office again? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/116 "2019-09-02T21:30:27Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Could a defeated president still face some federal procedure (obviously not impeachment) to A)deny him the pension. B)Strip him of Secret Service protection. C) Prevent him from seeking the office again? We call those “Felonies”. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/117 "2019-09-02T23:12:53Z")
Melania and Ivanka will be outcast from the New York socialite events they used to be a fixture in. Melania might leave him for good. She’s secured the money and a place in history. He was a sugar daddy for her in the first place and she doesn’t need that anymore. Don Jr will probably run for office and lose - Mayor of NYC I suspect. He’s a very arrogant little twerp and probably be a Fox News regular for years to come. Eric will return to obscurity. Tiffany was brought up by her mother who is liberal. I suspect she is privately liberal. Barron is a child and is off-limits now and when he grows up until he chooses to talk, if he does (he might be like Amy Carter and have everyone still thinking of him as a 10 year old 40 years from now). ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/118 "2019-09-03T00:12:38Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Trump would get tipped off, and his assets moved to where they couldn’t be seized. Damn. So it’s back to torches and pitchforks. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418/119 "2019-09-03T00:27:25Z")
> [@Boycott](#): > > Melania and Ivanka will be outcast from the New York socialite events they used to be a fixture in. I’m not so sure about Ivanka. In that little world, the only unforgiveable sin is poverty. Ivanka will not, ever, be poor, between being born into the Trump family and marrying into the Kushner family. She will use her occasional speaking of emptly platitudes about advancing womens’ causes during her father’s presidency as protective cover. > [@Boycott](#): > > Melania might leave him for good. She’s secured the money and a place in history. He was a sugar daddy for her in the first place and she doesn’t need that anymore. You might be right. I suspect (without any actual knowledge) that Melania never envisioned, and never wanted, anything like what she ended up getting. I actually feel kind of sorry for her. She was thrown in way over her head. > [@Boycott](#): > > Don Jr will probably run for office and lose - Mayor of NYC I suspect. He’s a very arrogant little twerp and probably be a Fox News regular for years to come. He can’t possibly be that stupid. There is no way whatsoever that he could win elective office in New York City (any more than his father could). He might move somewhere else where the Trump name helps, though, and run for office from there, as a carpetbagger. Wouldn’t surprise me if he showed up in some state in Trump country where a Republican senator is retiring. > [@Boycott](#): > > Eric will return to obscurity. Did he ever leave it? Eric might be the smartest one in the family. He’s been keeping his head down. > [@Boycott](#): > > Tiffany was brought up by her mother who is liberal. I suspect she is privately liberal. Who knows. Her mother was, well, Marla Maples was an opportunistic piece of work. I know nothing about the daughter. > [@Boycott](#): > > Barron is a child and is off-limits now and when he grows up until he chooses to talk, if he does (he might be like Amy Carter and have everyone still thinking of him as a 10 year old 40 years from now). Who knows. I hope he can grown up and escape all of this, and not suffer too much from the stigma of his father’s name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418.md?page=5)