# Will Trump lay in state after his death? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 23, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191 "2021-09-23T13:30:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/21 "2021-09-23T18:21:51Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Giving his supporters one last chance to kiss his ass. That was not my first thought as to why. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/22 "2021-09-23T19:10:30Z")
Riddle: what does he do everyday, and will continue to do after he’s dead? Lie. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/23 "2021-09-23T19:19:36Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > When Nixon passed, his family, probably wisely, chose to not have him lay in state at the Capitol, and rather had a more subdued memorial at his Presidential Library. The key words there are, “probably wisely”. Having witnessed the Trump family psyche for four years, I have the think that quite the opposite will occur. He will be displayed in as spectacular way as possible, and his family and Fox News will lie like hell about what a great president he was, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/24 "2021-09-23T19:21:08Z")
The Trump family will claim that the US government offered, nay begged, DJT repose on Abraham Lincoln’s catafalque, but they declined, citing the government’s unwillingness to protect the mourners from Antifa. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/25 "2021-09-23T19:59:31Z")
I’m going to go with the money angle as the most likely determinant. In death, as in life, Trump will “lie” in such manner as allows the most money to be extracted from the rubes. If lying in state can’t be monetized, they’ll just have a tasteless gaudy funeral and dump him somewhere afterwards, probably illegally. Melania will be seen boarding a Slovakia-bound plane wearing her famous “I really don’t care, do u?” jacket and a suitcase full of former White House valuables that mysteriously went missing last January. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/26 "2021-09-23T20:03:27Z")
I think he should lie in state in a Las Vegas casino. With a neon coffin. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/27 "2021-09-23T20:35:43Z")
And those who don’t believe he’s immortal will be busying themselves spouting conspiracy theories about his demise even if he drops dead of a heart attack on live TV during a rally. It will make all the rumors surrounding the JFK assassination seem restrained and short-lived. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/28 "2021-09-23T20:44:21Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Trump will “lie” in such manner as allows the most money to be extracted from the rubes. Once upon a time, corpses were displayed at carnivals. Embalm him like Lenin and put him in a Lenin-like case and charge the rubes a sawbuck or two for a walk-by glance. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/29 "2021-09-23T22:03:17Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > I think he should lie in state in a Las Vegas casino. > > With a neon coffin. Atlantic City would be more fitting since Trump owned four failed casinos there. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/30 "2021-09-23T22:09:41Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I’m going to go with the money angle as the most likely determinant. In death, as in life, Trump will “lie” in such manner as allows the most money to be extracted from the rubes. That is my thought as well. I’m thinking a Lincoln like tour of all 50\* states by gold painted bus, where well wishers and pay top dollar to see his holyness’ mortal remains, and by merch on the way out. The tour will end at his final resting place Trumpland (similar to Graceland) in Marlargo, Las Vegas, Atlantic city or what ever municipality will give them the best tax breaks. \*Yeah there they will end up skipping Alaska and Hawaii but they will call it 50 states as one final lie to see him off. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/31 "2021-09-23T22:21:37Z")
It occurs to me that a really good place for the Trump Mortal Remains™ would be in his former 757 personal jet that is currently sitting outdoors in a rural New York airstrip and rotting away day by day, with so much of it broken down now that it will likely never fly again. Behold the sight of better days gone by, the embalmed remains of the Trumpster made to look as vigorously orange as he was in life, inside the luxurious environs that he pretended he could afford but actually could not, and never paid for. Maybe the whole rusting hulk with the embalmed remains inside could become the Trump Library, entitled something like “The Rotting Grifter and his Rotting Grift”, with a hefty premium charged for those wishing to gain admittance for a worshipful viewing of the interior. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/32 "2021-09-23T22:24:41Z")
He can lie in state, and be interred, at the presidential library at Trump University. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/33 "2021-09-23T23:25:00Z")
I doubt Loser Donald has ever considered the possibility that he might someday die, and if he has, it’s a scenario where he bodily ascends into heaven while surrounded by millions of weeping admirers, a choir of angels heralding his arrival, as God greets him, with tears in His eyes, saying “Thank you, Mr. Trump,” before stepping aside from His golden throne to let Trump take his rightful place as the new master of all creation. So to him, lying in state will not be necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/34 "2021-09-23T23:26:27Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > In death, as in life, Trump will “lie” in such manner as allows the most money to be extracted from the rubes. Maybe install a pay toilet over his grave… ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/35 "2021-09-23T23:27:35Z")
I think Fox and OANN have studied tapes of North Korean television anchors wailing and gnashing their teeth when the previous Kim died so they’ll know how to act. Expect a marathon tribute to his holiness and a campaign to replace the other four guys on Mount Rushmore with him. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/36 "2021-09-23T23:29:34Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I doubt Loser Donald has ever considered the possibility that he might someday die, and if he has, it’s a scenario where he bodily ascends into heaven while surrounded by millions of weeping admirers, a choir of angels heralding his arrival, as God greets him, with tears in His eyes, saying “Thank you, Mr. Trump,” before stepping aside from His golden throne to let Trump take his rightful place as the new master of all creation. Whereas I myself visualize something more along the lines of Saint Peter pushing a big red button to trigger a spring platform to send him careening through a series of giant pinball bumpers on a trajectory that ultimately drops him onto a spiral slide to Hades. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/37 "2021-09-23T23:49:51Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > God greets him, with tears in His eyes, saying “Thank you, Mr. Trump,” No, it would be “Sir, thank you.” In Trump’s fantasies, people address him as Sir. > **[‘Sir’ alert: This one word is a telltale sign Trump is being dishonest | CNN...](https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/sir-trump-telltale-word-false/index.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/38 "2021-09-24T00:00:05Z")
No, but it depends on who his next of kin legally will be when he bites it. I suspect they’ll Lenin him up and charge admission to the maga folks ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/39 "2021-09-24T00:02:12Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > In Trump’s fantasies, people address him as Sir. He mixes it up with “Mr. Trump” or “President Trump” sometimes. The one common thread is that, in his made-up conversations, nobody EVER calls him “Donald”. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191/40 "2021-09-24T01:07:16Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Trump will “lie” in such manner as allows the most money to be extracted from the rubes. While Mike Lindell sells commemorative MyPillows to the bereaved masses with Trump’s image on them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-lay-in-state-after-his-death/951191.md?page=3)