# Where might Trump go? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 12, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300 "2021-01-12T00:22:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/81 "2021-01-16T22:43:34Z")
There are numerous news accounts of Trump’s business downturns. Not only are his businesses doing badly, but he is also losing friends and backers, and companies and governments are cancelling contracts. Plus he has those huge loans coming due, and that big tax case. Is he going to be able to afford to keep golf courses and resorts to live at? And lawyers to keep stalling? ---
**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 17, 2021, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/82 "2021-01-17T02:21:30Z")
In a word, “No”. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/83 "2021-01-18T01:00:14Z")
Somewhere upthread someone mentioned Melania’s Slovenian passport. Assuming they were to stay together and she wanted to go back home, could he get into Slovenia as a spouse? Would that give him access to the EU? ---
**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 18, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/84 "2021-01-18T01:35:57Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Would that give him access to the EU? It would. But how useful that might be to T depends on how many EU arrest warrants are outstanding for him at the time. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/85 "2021-01-18T20:58:24Z")
Apologies to the good Doctor Seuss, but I don’t care where … I don’t care how you go. Just GET! Get yourself a Ga-Zoom. You can go with a… BOOM! Donald, Donald,Donald! Will you leave this room! Donald J. Trump, I don’t care HOW. Donald J. Trump! Will you please GO NOW! I said GO and GO I meant … The time had come. SO… Donald WENT. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/86 "2021-01-18T21:05:07Z")
Shades of Nixon and…wasn’t it Art Buchwald? ---
**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 19, 2021, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/87 "2021-01-19T16:20:16Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Apologies to the good Doctor Seuss, but I don’t care where … > > I don’t care how you go. > Just GET! > Get yourself a Ga-Zoom. > You can go with a… > BOOM! > Donald, Donald,Donald! > Will you leave this room! There must be 50 ways to leave your country. … ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/88 "2021-01-19T16:40:45Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Vlad no longer has any use for him, so no. He has 74 million people eating out of his hand, Vlad has plenty of use for him. It will be Russia as soon as he can. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/89 "2021-01-19T17:49:06Z")
The guy facing the mirror at the end of the bar, nursing a soda, and mumbling “I am the beloved leader of the free world…” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/90 "2021-01-19T18:06:40Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > He has 74 million people eating out of his hand, Vlad has plenty of use for him. It will be Russia as soon as he can. He had seventy-four million people who voted for him eleven weeks ago. But how many does he have now? A lot of his supporters were justifiably appalled by the riot on December 6. And his supporters who carried out the riot feel betrayed by him for his denunciation of them after the fact. If he flees the country and relocates to Moscow, you have to feel that will shake a few of his supporters loose as well. These people are pretty dense but at some point some of them of them are going to start saying, _“You know, I’m starting to get suspicious about this here Trump fellow. Maybe he’s not one hundred percent truthful.”_ Trump can shoot one person in the middle of Fifth Avenue and get away with it. But if he keeps doing it over and over again, eventually a few of his supporters are going to start questioning it. Trump doesn’t know enough to quit when he’s ahead. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/91 "2021-01-19T18:09:53Z")
**Husband:** I won the lottery! Pack your bags! **Wife:** Should I pack for the mountains, or the beach? **Husband:** I don’t care. Just pack your bags and get out! ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/92 "2021-01-19T18:27:05Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > A lot of his supporters were justifiably appalled by the riot on December 6. And his supporters who carried out the riot feel betrayed by him for his denunciation of them after the fact. Did I miss a riot in December on the 6th? Or are you referring to December 37th 2020 riot? 😀 ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/93 "2021-01-19T19:35:53Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > He had seventy-four million people who voted for him eleven weeks ago. But how many does he have now? The overwhelming majority of them. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/94 "2021-01-19T23:13:07Z")
No. 538 reports his aggregate approval rating at 38.5%, net rating minus disapproval at -19.4%, which is not basement-level for him, well above W in '08 and slightly higher than Carter at this point in his term. If 50M people would still vote for him in light of what has happened, that would probably be in the high side. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/95 "2021-01-19T23:55:07Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > If 50M people would still vote for him in light of what has happened, that would probably be in the high side. Even 35 mil, if properly fed and groomed, would be determinant for who gets on the ballot under the “R”. Remember: 147 votes in Congress to pander to them even hours after the riot, 190 a week later. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/96 "2021-01-20T15:02:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > If 50M people would still vote for him in light of what has happened, that would probably be in the high side. You think he lost a third of his voters for something they mostly approve of? no way, we could have another election today and Trump would pass 70 million again. Biden might crack 90 though. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/97 "2021-01-20T17:13:17Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > You think he lost a third of his voters for something they mostly approve of? No, I think a third or more of his voters were not supporters, per se. I voted for Biden not because I like the guy – really, I am fully prepared to be disappointed – but I was not offered a decent, practical alternate for getting rid of the orange menace. I suspect a great deal of the orange menace’s voters did so out of habit (always vote R), out of fundamental political ignorance/indifference or out of pressure (my neighbors will fuck the neighborhood up if he loses). At least 20M people who voted for him did not approve of incident-the-sixth. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/98 "2021-02-06T21:33:31Z")
In a poll taken after Jan. 6, he had 80% approval among Republicans. Not sure what it is now, but he probably does still have overwhelming support among those who voted for him. It looks like he lost about 2% of Republicans from before the election to after Jan 6. > [@](#): > > Almost 9 in 10 Republicans — 87 percent — give Trump a thumbs-up, compared with 89 percent who said the same before the November election. > **[Trump approval remains stable in new NBC poll, with Republicans unmoved after...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-trump-approval-remains-stable-republicans-unmoved-after-capitol-violence-n1254457)** > > Eighty-seven percent of Republicans approve of how Trump is doing his job in a new NBC News poll, but half of all voters say he is "definitely worse than most" presidents. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/99 "2021-02-06T22:39:50Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > In a poll taken after Jan. 6, he had 80% approval among Republicans. On the other hand, the [Gallup Party Affiliation](https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx) survey puts Republicans at below 27% and falling (that number is the average of July-January), so “80% approval among Rs” works out to something like maybe 21% overall. Which is still way too many, but certainly not four-fifths of seventy four million. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300/100 "2021-02-07T01:54:55Z")
Late to the party, as per usual, but here to provide the last word on What’s-His-Name’s final destination. As Reconstruction got underway, at least 10,000 former traitors exited the U.S. for Brasil. A search on YouTube for “confederados brazil” will turn up a number of entertaining videos about the descendants. Since you have to be carefully taught to hate and fear, possibly a number of these would welcome a like-minded leader. Dan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-might-trump-go/930300.md?page=6)