# Would Trump survive a term? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 2, 2016, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539 "2016-08-02T10:26:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/1 "2016-08-02T10:26:23Z")
The major complaint of the man who ghost-wrote _The Art of the Deal_ was the Trump had a very short attention span-- almost to the point that it seemed like there was something wrong with him. It makes me wonder if Trump would actually survive a whole four years as president. Does anyone think that he’d just get bored or frustrated and resign after 18 months? Does anyone think the possibility, or maybe allowability, of doing that is in the back of his mind even while he’s running? I mean, the man makes up his own rules. How much does he really care about the constituency? I don’t really think his goal is to be president, so much as _to get elected_. I wonder if he’s even thought beyond that. Maybe he’s thought about the inaugural ball, and that’s it. Anyone else wonder about this? ---
**Author:** ![DrForrester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/2 "2016-08-02T10:58:54Z")
Mr. Trump has run for president or has been “thinking” of running since the late 1980s. There is a timeline [here](http://www.tvguide.com/news/donald-trump-presidential-campaign-timeline/). I think that he thought it was something he needed to do to keep his name in the spotlight, to increase the value of his brand. The last time that I went to the UK, I got nothing but crap, from everyone, about W. I don’t think it’ll be safe to go out into the world during a Trump presidency. (Of course, if I go back to the UK, I’ll just remind them about the Brexit.) Stupidity is not an exclusively American value. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/3 "2016-08-02T11:13:23Z")
If every President-elect has a medical, I don’t believe Trump could survive objective psychiatric testing. Of course, it won’t be objective. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/4 "2016-08-02T11:15:00Z")
> [@DrForrester](#): > > (Of course, if I go back to the UK, I’ll just remind them about the Brexit.) Stupidity is not an exclusively American value. eh? Brexit was a profoundly sane choice, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/5 "2016-08-02T12:22:07Z")
I suspect he’d be the first President to be assassinated by his Secret Service detachment… ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/6 "2016-08-02T12:57:35Z")
I think he’d stay long after most people got fed up and wished he’d resign and make a spectacle of himself without worrying about the state of the country. He’ll get so much more attention as current President than former President. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/7 "2016-08-02T13:29:12Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Does anyone think that he’d just get bored or frustrated and resign after 18 months? People said the same thing about his campaign, that he would get bored and quit. The Presidency is what one makes of it; I can’t imagine why he would get bored of it. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/8 "2016-08-02T13:52:50Z")
There was a newspaper article not long ago claiming that Trump, if elected, planned to just have his VP handle foreign and domestic policy. Now, you can take that with plenty of grains of salt; the reporter said that someone working for Kasich said that Trump Jr said it on behalf of Trump Sr; and even given a game of telephone that played out accurately, Trump says a lot of things that simply aren’t so. But if it’s all true, and if Pence took the deal Kasich turned down, then there’s nothing for Trump to really get bored _with_; he can bask in publicity as a celeb who gets VIP treatment – which I figure is his plan if he _loses._ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/9 "2016-08-02T17:10:31Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > There was a newspaper article not long ago claiming that Trump, if elected, planned to just have his VP handle foreign and domestic policy. I can’t imagine Trump listening to anyone else, including his Vice President. I’m speculating Trump will give Pence just enough nominal authority that he can try to dump the blame on Pence when Trump screws up. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/10 "2016-08-02T17:37:48Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > **Would Trump survive a term?** What saint-of-a-woman would willingly want the Smirk of that Dr Seuss “Ignorance List Caboose” in their womb for nine months??? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/11 "2016-08-02T19:48:20Z")
Impeached in the first 100 days. You will see the Dems and GOP work together like never before! ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/12 "2016-08-02T20:16:23Z")
He would resign in less than a year. After a few months of having to go into the briefing rooms and listening to people he could not possibly understand. It won’t be as much fun as he thought it would be. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/13 "2016-08-02T20:24:44Z")
I see him as a lot like Sarah Palin (maybe with a few more brains). At first I didn’t understand why she quit as governor, but finally decided that she was bored and lazy. It wouldn’t surprise me if after being told, say, that he couldn’t just put Hillary in prison and can’t just change the immigration acts by fiat and so on, he complains that he is being dragged down by naysayers that he can’t just fire and quits. Not predicting it mind you, but it wouldn’t surprise me. There is a story I heard recently that Harry Truman warned Eisenhower that he would be astonished to find that he could give an executive order and discover that _nothing happened._ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/14 "2016-08-02T20:55:29Z")
So, how screwed would we be with President Pence?? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aeb1de/32.png) [@Lee\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lee_Q)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/15 "2016-08-02T21:01:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I can’t imagine Trump listening to anyone else, including his Vice President. I’m speculating Trump will give Pence just enough nominal authority that he can try to dump the blame on Pence when Trump screws up. [This article](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/magazine/how-donald-trump-picked-his-running-mate.html?_r=3&mtrref=undefined)at the NYT sure suggests otherwise. Excerpt: \*\*But according to the Kasich adviser (who spoke only under the condition that he not be named), Donald Jr. wanted to make him an offer nonetheless: Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history? When Kasich’s adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father’s vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy. Then what, the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of? “Making America great again” was the casual reply. \*\* Then yesterday I saw Jesse Ventura on some news show saying that since he’s studied a lot of conspiracy theories, he thinks the Trump/Pence combo is a “perfect setup” whereby GOP pushed to get Pence chosen so he’d be (as Ventura kept putting it) “one heartbeat away.” I was a bit surprised that Ventura went so far as to speculate about Trump being assassinated so that Pence would step in as president, all according to this conspiratorial plan he was speculating about. He even said the perfect patsy, whom he compared to Jack Ruby or Oswald, would be “a Mexican or Muslim” because of course Trump has said so many nasty things about these groups that the public would buy a narrative about someone from such a group wanting to off Trump. And allow Pence to step in as the “real” president. Scary stuff indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/16 "2016-08-02T22:56:44Z")
Survive a term. How do you mean? Will he serve four years, resign early, or…how to phrase so I don’t get a visit from the Secret Service…“other”? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/17 "2016-08-03T02:12:54Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > I suspect he’d be the first President to be assassinated by his Secret Service detachment… Who would immediately rebrand themselves the Praetorian Guard. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/18 "2016-08-03T04:05:18Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > What saint-of-a-woman would willingly want the Smirk of that Dr Seuss “Ignorance List Caboose” in their womb for nine months??? Someone did. That’s why he’s here in the first place. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/19 "2016-08-03T04:06:22Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > He would resign in less than a year. After a few months of having to go into the briefing rooms and listening to people he could not possibly understand. It won’t be as much fun as he thought it would be. Assuming, like gatopescado said, we don’t have a coup or its equivalent. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/20 "2016-08-03T05:13:27Z")
> [@DrForrester](#): > > The last time that I went to the UK, I got nothing but crap, from everyone, about W. I don’t think it’ll be safe to go out into the world during a Trump presidency. (Of course, if I go back to the UK, I’ll just remind them about the Brexit.) Stupidity is not an exclusively American value. > [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > eh? > > Brexit was a profoundly sane choice, thanks. Compared to electing Donald Trump President? Yeah, can’t argue that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539.md?page=2)