My nightmare: Trump 2024

[slumcamper]

Last night I sulked off to bed at 10:30 CST angry and worried. My first thought, "Tonight I've become a sad, old bitter man." My restless mind drifted to the Enlightenment and its influence on our Founders, how reason and science and high-mindedness prevailed, and how our country was birthed within the embrace of an intellectual genesis...and how so very far we have departed from that original impulse. We have.

At some point I dreamt that the Cheeto Bandito was running again...as soon as he left office, with designs on a second term in 2024.

Preposterous? Or are the narcissistic egomaniac so driven by redeeming his "brand" and his cult so deluded as to try this?

Please--help me purge this nightmarish demon! Convince me this won't happen. PLEASE!

[ZZenith]

1. Six feet under.

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23. If not, the dementia will have fully set in.

He's close now. Give him four years and I'll pay to see him at a rally as he goes out of lucidity now occasionally.

[ZZenith]

35. That's a movie that has to be made:

“Trump 2024 - Totally Bonkers!”

He’s at it again! Follow the madcap adventures of America’s favorite failed reality TV star as he tries to rekindle the magic - it’s an unforgettable romp through the zany world of a man who doesn’t realize he’s actually in prison!

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39. Heeheehee! Funny. You've been a copywriter, right?

[ZZenith]

42. Married to one.

[Hassler]

2. Will he be able to run from behind bars?

[texasfiddler]

3. I want to get out of this nightmare first. I can't multitask :)

[JI7]

4. He is in horrible physical condition. He has trouble walking

[Earthshine2]

5. He'll be too old and unhealthy then. He's propped up on drugs now.

Don Jr. might attempt to run. Everyone will laugh at him.

[dawg day]

6. He'll be either infirm or in prison, or both

And I suspect that the GOP will do some consolidating and not allow 17 candidates.

But... I think by that time maybe the feverish Trumpers will have burned themselves up.

[Blue Owl]

7. Fucker's gonna croak before that

Or senile and wandering the streets in a bathrobe

[redstatebluegirl]

8. It will be the nightmare of Don Jr. or Ivanka I'm afraid.

[Thekaspervote]

21. Don jr the coke head with self destruct...as far as vanka, poor boys don't want no damn woman

Telling that what to do

[Dream Girl]

29. They don't have the "special sauce" of their old man.

[JI7]

48. None of them have the reality star bs appeal of Trump

[essme]

9. OK, so let's say he goes to Mar-a-whateverthehellitscalled and hires a personal trainer

Who puts him on a strict vegan diet. He sees Dr's to get his arteries unclogged.

His lawyers manage to keep him out of prison.

Yeah, I could see him running in 2024 under those circumstances.....sure.

[AleksS]

10. Sorry. If he's alive, he's running.

Grifters gotta grift. And this is one helluva scam on his cultists.

[PirateRo]

11. He has to dodge prison first

[PTWB]

12. Trump will be too old, too unhealthy.

Not gonna happen.

To be perfectly honest I would be surprised if Joe chooses to run again at 82. We will see!

[lunatica]

13. He will soon be a convicted criminal if New York has any say

I know he doesn’t care and thinks it doesn’t matter.

Plus, he doesn’t make as much money as he’d like to as Prez.

[mtnsnake]

14. He will most likely explode and die from spontaneous combustion first.

[Ahpook]

15. If anything

It will be one of his demon spawn.

[TreasonousBastard]

16. Let him plan for another run. And let us humiliate him until he shits his pants so bad...

he leaves trails of diarrhea dripping out his pants behind him.

On his own plane with no AF 1 drones to clean it up. And his own golf course, with is illegal Mexican pool boys to get rid of the mess.

[Thekaspervote]

17. Who's gonna fund that run? Certainly he isn't

I suppose his cult base would give, but as we know it takes a lot more than what they have.

We will from now on have to be ever vigilant against this kind of repeat

[dalton99a]

18. In four years he will be Super-Super Man and Super-Stable Super Genius

[regnaD kciN]

19. Rather than nightmare...

...than one of Trump being re-elected and then trying to push through repeal of term limits.

Besides, Trump may try to run again, but he'll be 78 and all his financial debts will have caught up with him. And he'll be "old news."

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. He might try to run, but I think the Republican Party will tell him to take a hike.

[hlthe2b]

22. I'm confident he will either be too physically & mentally incapacitated or incarcerated to run

[TlalocW]

24. It's a valid concern

America being America and how it treats the rich or even... the "rich," Trump could escape justice. Then he could immediately refile to run again in 2024, and now we have three scenarios. Is his ego bigger than his love of money, and is he serious about running again? Is the opposite true, and he's doing it as a grift? Or is it a crazy combination where he gives the money to Invanka to run setting up what he hopes is a political dynasty that soothes his ego and will protect him from whatever legal trouble he decides to get into next?

TlalocW

[David__77]

25. I think that that may be helpful to the Democratic Party.

He is and I think will be the leader of that party, should he choose to be so.

[Boogiemack]

26. That is precisely why Nancy should impeach him again. nt

[Withywindle]

27. I doubt it

His power base in vaguely mainstream politics will be gone. Nobody will bet real money on him.

I imagine his future will be one of playing to an ever-dwindling cult base. He'll probably do "rallies" on the redneck circuit for a few years, maybe have a TV show or a YouTube channel where he just spews word-salad bile and endlessly bitch about how unfairly he was treated. Might be able to get a small crowd at a state fair chanting "Lock her up" for old times' sake, like some one-hit wonder from the 70s playing their only good song three times in one set. Until his bad health and oncoming dementia really catch up to him, which I think will happen long before 2024.

[JCMach1]

28. Can't run from Dubai,.Moscow, or Rikers

[treestar]

47. +1

[Initech]

30. No way he lives that long.

He's so bloated, overweight, and out of shape that there's no way he makes it to 2024, and even if he somehow miraculously did, there's no way he would pass the health requirements needed to be president. I would say there's nothing to worry about here.

[Caliman73]

31. Hate to drive you even deeper BUT...

Those Enlightenment ideals, reason, science, etc... while AWESOME concepts, were all at one point, used to justify slavery, colonialism, sexism, etc... The US is a country, like any other country. We like to think we are better because we threw off some crusty old king from England, but we replaced monarchy with land owning merchants who "were the best" because they had the money to be the best.

We need to stop deifying our past and actually pay more attention to the ideals and how WE DID NOT meet them, and how WE MUST strive harder to do so.

Trump may want to run again, but at this point, the Republican party won't dance with the clown, and he doesn't have enough pull with others to be anything but a fringe contender. He will continue to damage Conservatives by pulling the most outwardly racist from their ranks.

It will not happen. He had a shot, he took it. He failed. He can't make any meaningful change to expand his electoral support without backing from the GOP, and they don't want to die as a party.

[kurtcagle]

32. It just occurred to me that the Iranians

still have an outstanding $80 million bounty on his head for ordering Soleimani's assassination. I don't believe it's been rescinded.

He won't be back in 2024. Once out of the limelight, disgraced and forgotten, narcissists usually tend to go out with a bang.

[blueinredohio]

33. He doesn't have the money to start

campaigning for four years. He's broke. He was using our money to campaign since 2016.

[fierywoman]

34. Trump: Guantanamo 2024!

[hatrack]

36. Too old, too fat, too sick, too lazy, too stupid, too addicted, too fucking late

He's served his "purpose" to McConnell and company, and since he's now a LOSER, he's of no further use.

[Hekate]

37. He is a sick old man physically, with the onset of dementia mentally. 2024 is out of reach.

Don Jr and Ivanka both have designs on the Oval Office, & they both have their fans. However Junior appears to have a significant drug problem, and Princess Sparkle Pony is completely vapid, so who can tell? None of the Trump spawn have their daddy’s innate gift for hucksterism, though.

[treestar]

46. Agreed, his spawn do not have his "talents."

They are just insipid.

[phylny]

38. Maybe, if his IRS tax audit is finished by then.

[mn9driver]

40. Tough to campaign from prison.

They probably won’t let him hold rallies in the exercise yard.

[MerryBlooms]

41. Preposterous.

One of his spawn maybe, that is if they're not in prison or worse.

[Cosmocat]

43. 100% will

And will stake his flag on it sooner than later .

[niyad]

44. His anger at losing may cause him to stroke out.

[treestar]

45. How will he be at 78 years old?

Even worse. That doesn't stop his stupid followers, though.

[fescuerescue]

50. That's probably not out best argument.

Because there are others (ahem) that are turning 78 this month.

[treestar]

53. Different people fail at different ages

Dotard is getting older faster. He's not kept himself in as good a shape. There are 90 year olds in better shape than some 70 year olds.
It's very person-specific. So comparing Dotard only to himself you can be sure he won't be getting smarter and speaking in less word salad over the next 4 years.

[fescuerescue]

54. of course! you and I understand that

But now we are getting into a subjective argument rather than an objective one.

That's why I said just pointing out age probably isn't our best approach.

[XanaDUer2]

51. he might be dead

he keeps slamming Biden's age, which is weird considering Trump's age

[Liberal In Texas]

52. He's going to run again for '24. He won't waste any time announcing it either.

More rallies and as much TV time as he can weasel his way on to. And constant fund raising. The grift will continue.

I might add, he may even resign and make Pence the pres. for a week so he can get a pardon under his belt.