# Would ex-President Trump run in 2024? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 17, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373 "2019-09-17T13:29:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/121 "2021-07-03T01:16:15Z")
> [@naita](#): > > He gets all that worship now. But two years is a lot of time and a not insignificant number of his current adoring audience are there because he’s “their president”. **Once the GOP start actually lining up their next candidate the Trump base are going to go “WTF!? Trump for life!” and Trump’s going to start thinking they might see him as a coward for not running.** Unless everyone really go insane and “The next president will just reinstate Trump and lock president Kamala up!” becomes their new Q, but I think even with Trump backing that won’t get much traction. This is a huge factor. Trump isn’t the sort to play kingmaker. He might be a king, he might be a jester, but he’s not the type that would ever willingly accept the role of kingmaker. ETA. Unless he’s dead or in extremely bad health, he’s going to run again. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/122 "2021-07-03T12:29:21Z")
A kingmaker has to ultimately defer to the king he created. The Don isn’t going to put in any minimal effort to elevate someone else to the top spot. In his simple mind, only he can be king. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/123 "2021-07-03T12:49:01Z")
I’m terrified that the prosecution of Weisellberg and The Org will compel DT to run in ‘24 in an attempt to create a practical immunity (not that I think that should deter the prosecutors). I think the likelihood of him running and winning are, unfortunately, reasonably high. I shudder to think of how unchained he’d be in a second term. The damage he’s caused in schooling a generation of Republicans in the efficacy of lying and gaslighting when you’ve got your constituents’ media sources running cover will reverberate for decades. I opened a noose shop on Etsy for whoever is interested. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/124 "2021-07-20T21:53:20Z")
Bleccccccccccccccccccccch. > **[Trump Is Telling His Dinner Pals He's Planning to Run for President in 2024](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-run-president-2024-twitter-campaign-1198912/)** > > In conversations with at least 3 people, a top GOP source says, Trump has said he wants another run at the White House ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/125 "2021-07-20T22:28:07Z")
He likes having immunity. He needs to have immunity. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/126 "2021-07-21T14:19:03Z")
Oh My Gawd! This was his plan the entire time! Become President - this gives you absolute immunity for the 4 years in office, plus the year or so campaigning, plus a year or so after (“we can’t prosecute him - it will look like it’s political revenge!”). Do something so stupid that you’re voted out of office (could Trump have actually been working with the Chinese to develop COVID? Just askin’ here…), then announce your candidacy again (can’t indict - looks like a political hit), win again! You’ve just given yourself at least 14 years worth of immunity! I guess he really is playing 5-dimentional chess! ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/127 "2021-07-21T19:48:34Z")
It is inevitable. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/128 "2021-07-21T20:17:19Z")
Assuming he’s still alive and sufficiently functional. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/129 "2021-07-21T20:31:58Z")
Don’t tease like that! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/130 "2021-07-21T21:07:34Z")
A Trump candidacy is fundraising and get-out-the-vote magic for the Democrats. Mealy-mouthed maggots like DeSantis and Haley might slither under the radar, but Trump is full lights and sirens. The Dem candidate in '24 might get 90 million votes. Bring it on! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/131 "2021-07-21T21:19:18Z")
I heard this “His campaigning can only help the Democrats!” crap the last time, and I am sick of it. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/132 "2021-07-21T21:31:27Z")
I wish you a speedy recovery. If a Trump candidacy is inevitable, what’s the upside. Yeah, you take what you can get. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/133 "2021-07-28T23:03:57Z")
Not sure if this belongs here and didn’t want to start another thread over it, but in one of the first post-Presidency tests of Trump’s ability to influence elections, [his preferred candidate in a House election lost 53-47](https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/27/susan-wright-jake-ellzey-texas-6-congressional-seat/). Both candidates were Republicans (it was a runoff from an early special election with 21 candidates). ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/134 "2021-07-28T23:22:17Z")
Both candidates were pro-Trump, it’s just that one got Trump’s public favor. The Democratic candidate (who I guess lost the primary? I don’t know how it works in Texas) said the Democrats should have done better, and that was a worrying sign. I want to think this means Trump’s influence has ebbed, but the guy lucked into the presidency and seems to have a reality-warping field around him, so I won’t let down my guard. Even if he doesn’t run, we might have to face President DeSantis or someone similar. > [@](#): > > National attention on the race dimmed after Democrats narrowly missed the runoff, a disappointment for the party in a district that Trump won by only 3 percentage points last year. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/135 "2021-07-29T00:01:11Z")
> [@Kimera757](#): > > The Democratic candidate (who I guess lost the primary? I don’t know how it works in Texas) It was a special election to fill a vacant House seat (the incumbent died of COVID) where all candidates ran in the election (i.e. no primary). Because no candidate got 50%, the top two advanced to a run off. I’m certainly not going to take a run off election of a special election to represent Waxahachie in Congress as some sort of national barometer, but I’m sure it has to grind Trump’s gears that the candidate he endorsed lost in a Republican face-off. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/136 "2021-07-29T00:54:56Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > sufficiently functional. And your definition of that is … ? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/137 "2021-07-29T03:10:28Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > …I’m sure it has to grind Trump’s gears that the candidate he endorsed lost in a Republican face-off. And that alone is a reason to enjoy this result. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/138 "2021-07-29T03:27:35Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > …but I’m sure it has to grind Trump’s gears that the candidate he endorsed lost in a Republican face-off. I expect him to say that he endorsed the winner all along. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/139 "2021-07-29T03:49:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I heard this “His campaigning can only help the Democrats!” crap the last time, and I am sick of it. After all the _sturm und drang_ that went into this past election (still on-going, even), resulting in a hyped up turnout like we’ve never seen on both sides, I expect the nation will be very weary of all this come the next election or two. I have a premonition that turnout will be very attenuated for while. But who will be most attenuated – Dems or Pubs? With the very relentless rabble-rousing by Pubs, together with their relentless voter suppression, and the traditionally laid-back Democrat get-out (this last election being a stark exception), I am not optimistic. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373/140 "2021-08-27T17:22:06Z")
As to DeSantis in 2024: > **[President DeSantis? Florida voters say 'no.' | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/26/politics/desantis-president-florida-voters-poll/index.html)** > > The voters who know Ron DeSantis best don't think he should run for president in 2024. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-ex-president-trump-run-in-2024/840373.md?page=8)