Could he? Yeah. And monkeys might fly outta my ass. I gotta give it to some of you folks, you have great imaginations. Seriously, you should write for Hollywood.
To answer the OP, by 2025… if he makes it that long… Trump will be too damned old and tired to continue.
Thanks!
No-one in the thread is saying that Trump will definitely “go loco”, but, given what we know of him, I personally find it more outlandish that someone would rule out all possibility of him reaching some psychological crisis point, or that he would attempt to incite his followers in some way in the interests of self-protection. Indications that he might are most definitely there.
Hollywood would have rejected the story of his campaign and Presidency. The Asylum wouldn’t have touched it with a ten foot pole. Uwe Boll would have trashed it, and Ed Wood…well, maybe Ed Wood would have taken it on.
Nothing that has been suggested in this thread is as crazy as what has already happened.
He wouldn’t ***want ***to stay for a 3rd. Most presidents can’t wait to be out the door by the time eight years is up. He would be 78 years by then, thoroughly exhausted and worn out, perhaps just want to spend his remaining years chilling in Mar-a-Lago. The guy has physical and mental limits like anyone else.
What issue would that be?
Hillary’s emails?
Pissing off liberals?
Destroying the moral fabric of the United States?
Bullshit. There is a constant level of crazy in this country. No matter who is sittting POTUS or running for the office, there is crazy. It doesn’t help that the wingnuts from both parties have spun wild tales of the opposition POTUS refusing to step down at least since the Nixon era. Get a grip on yourself. Trump is an idiot and a buffoon and has been a lousy POTUS, but you are working yourself up mostly, I think, because you enjoy being worked up.
Yes, there is a constant level of crazy, but none of the prior POTUSes have wallowed in it like this one. I also don’t think any of these wacky outcomes will happen, but if I were taking bets I’d put the odds closer to 1000-to-1, as opposed to a billion-to-1 for past administrations.
Is this the “Law Of Political Equality” you right-wingers trot out whenever your people go over the top? Do you actually believe there is some sort of natural force that guarantees that if one side is bad, the other side must be equally bad, and that this “fact” excuses said behaviour? That if one of yours fucks it up royally all you have to say is “You are just as bad as we are!” and your saying so makes it true? Your President is a dangerous, self-serving, bigoted, money-grubbing habitual liar who has brought the crazy to a dangerous new level, all your piteous hand-waving notwithstanding.
Do you want to know what sleazy things Trump has done, is doing, or is about to do? They will be precisely what he accuses others of doing, at the top of his lungs. It’s like clockwork.
The idea is that, when he gets exposed, unthinking people will confuse who has done what, and end up saying: “On well, they ALL do it, so it doesn’t matter.” The evidence is right here in this thread.
I don’t think there’s any chance that he could hole himself up in the West Wing with his henchmen and hold out in a Waco-style siege - the military, police, and even his own secret service wouldn’t stand for it.
He could easily incite his Twitter followers into violence - the fucking terrorist already has! Getting the level of violence to be organized enough to be justified called an “armed revolt” seems vanishingly unlikely though.
He could retreat to Mar-a-Lago with his devotees, though, and nobody would stop him. But who would care? Senile old man declares himself president of the universe and shouts that fact at cloud, film at 11.
As I just said to HD, Trump has no chance of illegally occupying the white house, but legally occupying his own private properties are another matter. He can hole out in one of them forever and nobody is going to stop him - or even bother trying to.
Hell, the government would probably even write off any silverware he shoved into his pockets on the way out. Not worth bothering with.
Not at all. I just have no respect for Chicken Little.
You’ve been pulling this “Chicken Little” crap since Trump got into politics-when it comes to spinning crap you’re a regular Baghdad Bob, aren’t you?
I find the “chicken little” position a pretty lazy and cowardly one. There’s no accounting if you’re wrong because we’ll all have much bigger concerns than digging up an incorrect post from years ago. But if you’re right, you get to be right.
He would want to have some way of getting an insurance policy against his being prosecuted and convicted in a court of law. He’s not most presidents.
Cite?
Oh, please…if you’re wrong, you are exactly the one who should be happy. Or is it that you would rather be right and all the chaos you predict would be worth it?
In addition to asahi’s point, whether or not Trump wants to continue being president, he doesn’t want to be kicked out of being president. That would be losing, which is something only losers do, and he’s no loser.
Now, arguably, stepping down at the end of a second term doesn’t imply a loss. But for Trump to realize and comprehend that he’d have to have at least two functioning brain cells, and I figure the odds of that being the case in six years are right around zero, if he’s even still alive.
“Gold plate? What are you talking about, this is a class production . . . angora plate everything!”
CMC fnord!
Whether he would leave via handcuffs or a hearse, we’d then get President Pence.
Scenario in 2020: Mayor Pete gets the Veep nomination, which IMHO and YMMV is not unlikely, and the Dems win, at which time he and Chaston move into Mike Pence’s current house, at which time Mr. Pence collapses in a dead faint.