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Has anybody said yet that they will probably just stick with Trump for 2024?
Has anybody said yet that they will probably just stick with Trump for 2024?
I don't think Trump will have much appetite for another run. He didn't really expect to win last time, he mostly did it as a publicity stunt, then he found that it was much more work than he realized. He likes the media attention, having a cool private jet, and famous people having to take him seriously, but, overall, I don't think he really enjoyed being President very much.
https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1325345374953943040
Not sure what to make of this idea. Thing with Trump is that his blissful ignorance is what makes him attractive to his supporters - everyone knows that he was bullshitting about the crowd size at his inauguration, for example, buy they're happy about it because the people they despise are driven crazy by the sheer audacity of the bullshitting. I'm not sure that anyone competent could pull off the act.
https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1324779434558267392
I don’t think he really enjoyed being President very much.
completely agree, I think Trump is going to enjoy being an Ex President (with all the trappings that comes with) much more than he ever was actually having to do the job, as let's be fair to him, Trump hasn't ever had to do any actual real work in his entire life, I'd imagine being President came as something as a rude shock to him.
Just like Bojo!
Just like Bojo!
He is just cummings spokesman, so not a lot of work to do really
I think Trump is going to enjoy being an Ex President (with all the trappings that comes with) much more than he ever was actually having to do the job
Not sure it will make that much difference to him TBF. He'll still mostly be playing gold or raging on twitter.
I think Trump is going to enjoy being an Ex President (with all the trappings that comes with)
San Quentin is lovely in the spring...
completely agree, I think Trump is going to enjoy being an Ex President (with all the trappings that comes with) much more than he ever was actually having to do the job
I'd not be so sure. I suspect the Trump brand will have taken a sufficient battering that once they've not got any direct power they might be a bit cut off and isolated from high society.
If you were a CEO of a company/charity, and looking to book an after-dinner speaker for your Christmas do, who'd you get? Clinton? Bush? Obama? Trump?
Even the number of people who want to be associated with his golf courses or live in Trump tower must have dwindled. Even if you were a captain of industry and Trump supporters due to deregulation and low taxes, you'd have to be blinkered to not acknowledge that any public association with him is going to put off a proportion of your customers (unless you own an arms company perhapse).
Will Fox news have him on every day to rant about Biden?
Will the Republican Party want him front and center?
I think retirement will involve mostly impotent rage, far-right rallies, and possibly another divorce.
Does anyone seriously think Donald Trump is going to go to prison?!
There’s no doubt that he should… Will he though? You have a point there…
Sadly, I think the very real possibility is that the 46th President of the US won’t be Joe Biden, but will in fact be Mike Pence… Trump isn’t likely to stick around for 9-10 weeks to preside over whatever is left, he might just **** off as soon as he has resigned himself to defeat, and leave Pence to preside over the next few weeks. This in itself, would create a strange situation, where the outgoing President is afforded one last pardon… It’s very possible that Pence could pardon Trump as Gerald Ford did Richard Nixon! 🤔
The prez can only pardon offences committed at the Federal level. So all the tax (and fraud etc) stuff being pursued by the Southern District of New York is nothing to do with whoever is president and any convictions or sentences emanating will stand.
Biden might well think that prosecuting Trump would be counterproductive (rile up his base, more evidence of trumped up Dem attacks etc), but unless he wanted to interfere with the work of the Attorney General (ie be guilty of exactly that that Trump has been doing) then he's going to have to let it play out.
In which case Trump may find it difficult to tweet from prison.
Also worth bearing in mind there's a lot of others vulnerable. Don Jr is in it up the neck re tax and fraud, as is Eric. Ivanka and Jared are certainly guilty of profiting from the presidency, if there's a paper trail then Barr could be in trouble. And as for Rudi, he'll be getting many opportunities to tuck in his trousers at the special prison hell that he's headed to.
Re the original thread, I'd have thought Ice Cube with Kid Rock as VP. Covers race, Southern v Northern, urban v rural. Dream ticket for sure
Unfortunately, there are two walking warmongers from the Kissinger mould on the horizon. Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo.
The world shudders.
(Not that Biden doesn't like a bit of war)
Will Fox news have him on every day to rant about Biden?
Nope, Newsmax boss was on CNN (as an alternative view) and apparently he’s in talks to bring TrumpTV to reality.
Donald won’t go to the slammer. Some of his family might ....
Nah they'll sleeze their way out of it
A trump will be on the 2024 ticket