in case this isn’t just a joke…
But “trump” is an ordinary English word, both a noun and a verb. If you play bridge, three no-trump is a fine contract. If spades are trump, then the 2 of spades trumps (beats) the ace that was led to win the trick.
Yes of course. Which is why I said it wasn’t actually surprising.
But after I’d typed “[hitler rant trump]” and noticed the red squiggly underline under just the one I had a moment of confusion before I sorted it out.
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.
The fact the absent red squiggly line (briefly) surprised me is proof I’ve done pretty well at erasing that word.
This I could see. I could actually see him disappearing. That’s a hard thing to do these days, but if anyone has the resources, he does. I’m not going to speculate what he might actually do, or where he would go, nor how he would elude his Secret Service-- and perhaps he wouldn’t ultimately be successful. But I can see him vanishing.
This would also obscure Biden’s inauguration and first days in office, and also spare Trump the consequences of whatever crimes he’s avoiding the consequences of as president.
It does mean that he’s no longer in the limelight, which doesn’t serve his narcissism well, but he’ll be all over the news to begin with, and by the time he realizes that he’s resigned to obscurity, he’ll be in too deep.
I agree with this.
The most important thing is that Biden’s inauguration will have to compete with his trip for HEADLINES. Donnie always has to pull headlines. Nothing else matters. He will deny he is fleeing the country. He’ll say this trip was planned for ages. (Of course, by saying that he will be admitting he didn’t expect the inauguration to be his, but that’s too much logic for him to grasp.)
He wouldn’t have to elude them if he voluntarily waives their protection. It’s not like they will chase him down and protect him against his will.
(As I suggested elsewhere, if you tell him his executive privilege expires when he’s no longer president and his security detail can be called to testify against him, he wouldn’t be able to fire them fast enough.)
Ah. Excellent point.
I wrote in another thread about how Trump will wait until the final hour of his Presidency to issue his self-pardon because he’ll be committing new crimes in the next two weeks.
What will be hilarious will be if he screws up the time zone difference between Washington and Scotland.
I’d like to see him issue a self-pardon with daily addenda to stay current.
In my longtime service industry job, a field full of questionable characters, we called Trump’s suspected flight to Scotland “runnin’ from what he done.”
No, I can’t see that happening. If there has been one consistent thing throughout Trump’s life it’s been his need for attention. He couldn’t spend an hour in hiding before making a public announcement of it.
This is going to be the torment of the rest of Trump’s life. As President of the United States, he was the center of world attention. Everything he said or did for the last four years has been headline news because he was the President. And now he’s going to lose that; the ramblings of an ex-president are generally not newsworthy. Trump has become used to people paying constant attention to him and he loves it. It’s going to tear him apart when it stops.
He also doesn’t tend to think more than about 12 hours into the future. If he disappears, he’ll be in the news big time for several days. By the time the furor dies down, he’ll realize he’s painted himself into a corner, but who knows what he’d be able to do about it, especially if there are warrants out for him by that time.
I’m not saying this is what I think is the most likely thing to happen. I’m just saying I wouldn’t be shocked if it did. Suicide, I think, would be out of character, because he wouldn’t get to see the commotion he caused. But by vanishing, he’d get to see the news, and see what he’d caused.
Honestly, I don’t know what’s going to happen.
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.
There’s no way Trump could move fast enough to require being shot.
I’ll bet Biden could take him down himself.
How about if he FAKES his suicide (or other apparently fatal event)? Then a a few three days later he can rise from the dead and take over the headlines? The best time to do this would be three days before the inauguration-- when he comes back from the dead that would definitely upstage Joe’s swearing-in.
I can see Trump orchestrating a situation where he tries to convince the public that he is contemplating suicide just so he can hear the unanimous begging of the American people for him to not do it. He is incapable of anticipating that just as many people would be encouraging him to go through with it.
No way is suicide on the cards.
Bear in mind Trump has been in and out of the courts for decades. He may be the most frequent object and initiator of lawsuits. If he can live now, still denying any wrongdoing on anything, no doubt he can continue that for his last few years.
Losing the presidency is an objective and public failure on his part, and actually accepting that could make him depressed, which is part of why he’s clung to the election fraud narrative. I don’t think he ever actually cared about the presidency. He was only the president of the MAGAts after all, and he still will be.
But is that really comparable to the criminal courts? Could his ego endure perp walks and bail hearings?
This. Trump has had big defeats before, even if he’s managed to make them much smaller defeats than they should be. And by that I mean that his court losses have been smaller than they should have been, he’s managed to get past bankruptcies with more assets and reputation than he should have, and he’s taken less of an hit to his ego than he should.
He’s managed to create a whole new class of devotees to the Trump brand, and they will fund the same kind of unscrupulous legal tactics that have drawn out Trump court cases before and tempt the same unscrupulous rich people who have invested in the Trump brand, despite its many failures, before.
There is a chance he’ll go to jail, but it’ll take years. There’s a chance his economics will go down the drain, but it’s entirely possible a series of bankruptcies will be followed by a faux-phoenix relaunch.
There will be no suicide, but it’s highly uncertain what role he’ll play in the GOP going forward. He got to be the boss of the party by becoming their candidate for president, but didn’t do any of the real “head of a party” work. They know don’t have to defer to him as president or candidate, but a lot of them have hitched themselves very firmly to his waggon, and the Trump train accepts no desertion. Congressman Chip Roy predicted a “full scale hot conflict” if the Democrats take control of the senate, but whether that happens or not we’re going to see the GOP infighting flare up and the question is just how long it’ll take for it to die back down, what role Trump will have in fanning the flames, and whether what is left is a reborn old GOP, a streamlined Trump GOP, or both.
Or he fakes a suicide attempt? I can see him taking a nonlethal dose of poison and, when he calls for help, gasping out “I should never have eaten that candy Pelosi sent!” All the rubes will believe it was an assassination attempt, and only his superior physical shape allowed him to survive.
A prolate spheroid is a shape.
Og make it so that the &^%$# news media internalize THAT. I do not know to what extent they may have accepted that constantly displacing every other news with “OMG look, what terrible thing Trump said now!!” only made him stronger in the lead-in to his election, and they should NOT do the same in his retirement.