# You've taken over Trump's body for five minutes. What do you do to get his supporters to turn? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 11, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615 "2019-10-11T01:05:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/41 "2019-10-11T14:27:46Z")
Am I on camera? I’d probably whip it out and start going to town, and stare directly at the camera the whole time without blinking. Maybe mutter something extra creepy while I’m at it. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/42 "2019-10-11T15:32:27Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Well, I mean, Ivanka isn’t exactly unattractive… The trouble with those one could be - you say “Ivanka, dhalink, I’ve always wanted you. Let’s have sex right here”. And the risk is she replies “again? We just did a half hour ago”. She’d know right away you/he were an imposter. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/43 "2019-10-11T15:49:24Z")
Well, **Librarian** , I can’t really say what my post says about me because I’m not really certain. The whole premise of the op is so fantastical and so utterly repulsive to me that I just typed before my brain could catch up with my reaction. The only part of my post that I will defend with any vehemence is the part about needing therapy after. Maybe later when I have more time I’ll come up with something more reasoned and thoughtful. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/44 "2019-10-11T16:10:07Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Yes, you have access to his (shudder) innermost secrets. Mind. Blown. Maybe. I’ve long believed that people generally act in a way they feel is sensible/reasonable, and that it is the framework of what they feel is reasonable that contributes to troubling behavior. So if you have access to ALL of his mind–secrets, knowledge, preferences, emotions, aversions–it would be impossible act in a way other than Donald Trump acts. If your mind is very much different going in, and you keep full contact with your own mind as well as his, 1) that’s a hell of a learning curve, and I wonder if you could do ANYTHING in 5 minutes, 2) who’s to say your non-Trump mind would have the stronger appeal to reason? And wouldn’t THAT be humbling. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/45 "2019-10-11T16:27:35Z")
The only issue with tweeting things is that when he gets his body back, he can claim his account was hacked. So I’d have to try to find a way to get on TV. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/46 "2019-10-11T18:54:56Z")
Is shooting Pence morally bankrupt? I would shoot Pence and then commit suicide in a way that takes more than five minutes to do. I think hanging does if the neck isn’t broken. Short of an irrevocable act, anything you do will be undone 5 minutes later. “Just joking. Of course, I don’t want my tax returns released.” ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/47 "2019-10-11T19:11:08Z")
Tell the White House staff that you will hold a press conference on the north lawn of the White House lawn in full view of the tourists in two minutes. Let them get the word out to the White House press corps. and gather. Make sure someone brings you a bullhorn. Use the two minutes to hand write a resignation letter and go to the north lawn. Use the next two and half minutes to announce your resignation, effective immediately, sign the resignation letter in full view of the public (and hold it up for the cameras like you do with bills), and admit publicly that you have: colluded with Russians to subvert American democracy in the presidential election and sold out American to appease the Russians by undercutting NATO, betraying Kurdish allies, giving up on Ukraine, and giving ground on Russian tariffs all because of your Russian business interests and personal connections. Admit that you are saying this only because Nancy Pelosi will soon uncover it all and announce that you will go out on your own terms by shooting yourself. Then use the last 30 seconds to try and tackle a Secret Service guard so you can take his gun and try to do the deed (perhaps trying to shoot him or her first). You will fail, because the Secret Service agent is going to be way better at holding onto his or her gun than you are going to be at taking it. Sure, Trump will awaken and snap out of it, but having tried to shoot a Secret Service agent and himself in full view of the press and public, people aren’t going to give a take-backsie on the resignation lightly. Acknowledging that Pelosi is right should strengthen her hand in the impeachment proceedings if such is still necessary. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/48 "2019-10-11T19:21:29Z")
typed before reading. ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/49 "2019-10-11T19:31:35Z")
The problem with all these suggestions is what does he have to do such that his supporters disbelieve his “fake news” claim. Even if he orders a nuclear strike on the Kurds or something his supporters would take the pictures of the charcoal and radiation burned victims and say either fake news or that it was justified. And claim the President is a bad ass for ordering hundreds of thousands of people murdered. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/50 "2019-10-11T19:43:37Z")
if I was in the White House and not on camera, maybe I’d do something patently crazy like strip nude, smear myself with crap and run out onto Pennsylvania Avenue screaming about moonbats and Democrats and needing a wall to keep the chupacabras out. Kind of hard to claim “fake news” when a whole shitload of people see you in person. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/51 "2019-10-11T20:51:15Z")
One sentence on international television: “I bear witness that there is no God worthy to be worshiped but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah” ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/52 "2019-10-11T21:08:17Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > You find yourself magically transferred into Trump’s body, and somehow know that you have 5 minutes before you switch back. Thinking quickly, you realize that he famously said that he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and not lose support, you begin to brainstorm what you can do to test that hypothesis. > > What could you do that wouldn’t just be dismissed as him joking, or morally bankrupt like nuking Omaha that would get his support to crumble? I’d say try to see if Trump could shoot Trump on 5th avenue and see how that works. The caveat here is, I would expect that after the test I could come back and be me again…maybe with a bit of brain bleach… ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/53 "2019-10-11T21:14:23Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Yes, you have access to his (shudder) innermost secrets. I would immediately call whichever high-ranked investigative person scares Trump the most and start telling that person everything Trump knows about the criminal activities of his allies/supporters within the republican party. You have to know that he has some dirt on them - he wouldn’t feel secure otherwise. This will doubtlessly incriminate Trump too, which is gravy, but not really the point - the goal would be to gut the republican party of as many criminals in its leadership as possible, starting with Pence, the Turtle and his attorney general and moving on from there. I would try to do this in tones of paranoia and suspicion, playacting a Trump who got a hair in his ass and was striking back at ‘traitors’ - and who could decide to do the same thing again at any time. Even if this doesn’t result in arrests, it would _immediately_ cause the republicans in congress to move forward with impeachment hearing, if not a hasty 25th amendment (clause 4) solution. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615/54 "2019-10-11T21:21:51Z")
**You’ve taken over Trump’s body for five minutes. What do you do to get his supporters to turn?** I’m in for five minutes, and then I’m out? Screw his supporters. I’d take a poison that has no antidote, and acts in 20 minutes. (Or a venomous creature, or take a bath in ebola-infected blood.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-taken-over-trumps-body-for-five-minutes-what-do-you-do-to-get-his-supporters-to-turn/841615.md?page=2)