# Will Trump kill himself on January 20? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 3, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593 "2021-01-03T20:31:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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 5, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/141 "2021-01-05T23:11:56Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > FTR, I have totally banished the word “trump” as in “override” or “defeat” from my vocabulary. The lowercase version of the word does not exist to me. With luck soon the mixed-case and uppercase versions can fade from my notice was well. > > I started a whole thread on this topic back in September: [What's the best word to replace "trump" in its common usage?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-word-to-replace-trump-in-its-common-usage/920347) A fine thread it was. I was post #33. Although I am considering changing my tune on not using that word. I think I will use it, but only as a euphemism for “dump” as in “Pardon me, where’s your bathroom? I need to go take a trump.” But all other uses of the word will remain _verboten_. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/142 "2021-01-05T23:17:54Z")
This has me wondering if narcissists are the opposite of “negativity bias.” Most people are biased towards the negative; in other words, if you had 70 percent of people saying that you were smart, charming and good-looking, and 30 percent saying you were ugly, stupid and vile, your mind would probably give a lot more weight to the stinging and painful comments than the good ones - indeed, the praising comments might not even register on your mind. But with a narcissist like Trump, it may be reversed - positive comments resonate with him, and give him proportionally more joy than the pain caused by negative ones. Indeed, the negative ones may slide off him like water off a duck’s back. So he could have 30 percent of the nation love him, 70 percent hate him, yet to him it _feels_ like the opposite. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/143 "2021-01-06T00:12:26Z")
Pronoia! ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/144 "2021-01-06T03:39:01Z")
If cult leaders are any indication, some narcissists will resort to suicide if backed into a corner. If possible, they’ll take as many of their followers as they can with them. ---
**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 6, 2021, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/145 "2021-01-06T03:46:43Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > If cult leaders are any indication, some narcissists will resort to suicide if backed into a corner. If possible, they’ll take as many of their followers as they can with them And the Lemmings will gladly follow their Pied Piper en masse to their compound in the jungles of ~~Guyana~~ Mar-a-Lago, where the Kool-Aid will flow freely. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/146 "2021-01-06T04:42:23Z")
If (as it looks possible at this point), both Senate seats in Georgia flip to the Democrats, And The remaining actual Republicans wake up and smell the coffee And They kick Trump and the Trumplicans to the curb as LOSERS… Then I think the OP’s scenario just went up in odds. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/147 "2021-01-06T04:43:58Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > Yes indeed. My wife watched a lot of MSNBC during the primary campaign and it was astonishing how much time they devoted to Trump. Two episodes of this stood out for me back in the 2016 election. The first was one time Mrs P and I were having lunch in a restaurant over our lunch hour. The restaurant had tv’s on, set to CNN. As we sat down, the CNN flak breathlessly announced that candidate Trump was going to be making an important statement, any minute now. And there was an empty podium, with “Trump” on it. And nothing happened. No sign of Trump. And CNN kept saying “any minute now” and then flipping to talking heads speculating as to what Trump was going to say. And then back to the empty Trump podium because he was going to be there in a minute. By the time we had eaten our lunch and left, CNN was still showing the empty Trump podium. Trump had played CNN for an hour of free advertising. The other one was when Trump the candidate in the fall of 2016 was opening his Washington hotel, and he told all the media that he was going to be making an important campaign statement at the hotel, and they should join him in the lobby. So the media showed up, cameras running. And then Trump started taking them on a tour of the hotel, pointing out the restaurants, the fake gold leaf every where, the conference rooms - and the idiot media just followed him along, broadcasting it all, waiting for him to stop and give his important campaign statement. Which he never did. But he got his free publicity for his glitzy new hotel opening. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/148 "2021-01-06T05:03:52Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > But he got his free publicity And the media never really did catch on to this scam (and all the scams to come) did they? I mean, talk about Lucy and the football… ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/149 "2021-01-06T05:23:46Z")
Oh, noes! The freedom-hating Scots are denying Trump his constitutional right to play golf in Scotland on Jan 20. ⛳ 🚫 🏌️‍♂️ > **[Scotland’s Sturgeon Says Trump Can’t Come to Play Golf](https://www.voanews.com/a/covid-19-pandemic_scotlands-sturgeon-says-trump-cant-come-play-golf/6200358.html)** > > With COVID-19 lockdown in effect, she says golf is not 'essential' > "We are not allowing people to come into Scotland without an essential purpose right now, and that would apply to him just as it applies to anybody else. " She said, “And coming to play golf is not what I would consider to be an essential purpose.” Geez! Golf not an essential purpose!!! 🙄 Escaping from Biden’s inauguration not an essential purpose? How unreasonable can you get? It’ll have to be golf at Mar-a-Lago on Jan 20 then. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/150 "2021-01-06T05:24:35Z")
They’re not being fooled, they’re being evil. They know Trump is using them, but people are willing to tune in, and they’re willing to sell out our country for a few extra rating points. This is what happens when news becomes a source of profit and not a public service. ---
**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 6, 2021, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/151 "2021-01-06T06:36:12Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > This is what happens when news becomes a source of profit and not a public service. This is why _Network_ (1976) is probably my favorite movie. The superficial trappings are dated but the underlying warning is timeless. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/152 "2021-01-06T09:13:43Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > FTR, I have totally banished the word “trump” as in “override” or “defeat” from my vocabulary. I play bridge. So i use the word more often than i refer to the man. > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > If cult leaders are any indication, some narcissists will resort to suicide if backed into a corner. If possible, they’ll take as many of their followers as they can with them. He’s doing that indirectly, with covid. ---
**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 6, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/153 "2021-01-06T14:23:01Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I play bridge. So i use the word more often than i refer to the man. Yes, that specialized use is a problem. Past time for the National Bridge Congress or whatever the sanctioning body calls itself to propose a new word for the lead suit in card games. I propose “Hitler”. And only semi-facetiously. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/154 "2021-01-06T14:29:47Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I play bridge. So i use the word more often than i refer to the man. The popularity of “No Trump” bids are going to skyrocket! ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/155 "2021-01-06T14:36:07Z")
If we all just start calling him “Loser Donald” we can reclaim “Trump” as a benign verb. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/156 "2021-01-06T14:36:20Z")
> [@naita](#): > > > [@puzzlegal](#): > > > > I play bridge. So i use the word more often than i refer to the man. > > The popularity of “No Trump” bids are going to skyrocket! That happened 4 years ago. 😉 Although “no trump” was already pretty popular. It’s often the best “suit” to be in at matchpoints. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/157 "2021-01-06T14:36:41Z")
I second this motion. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/158 "2021-01-06T14:39:16Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Apropos of nothing, I wonder if it’s possible to milk a rat. There is a schoolyard finger-torture technique called “milking a rat”, but I will not speak it here. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/159 "2021-01-06T14:42:26Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > If he attacks Biden, and gets shot by the Secret Service, that wouldn’t totally shock me either. It would surprise me a little, but not shock me. Anything involving physical courage is gonna be a hard ‘no’, sorry. Trump does not risk his large, soft body for any reason whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593/160 "2021-01-06T14:52:30Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > That happened 4 years ago. 😉 Of course it did! 🤦‍♂️ I played some bridge in uni. Me and my partner would usually rank around 8 out of 12 in the weekly student bridge association evenings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-kill-himself-on-january-20/929593.md?page=9)