I doubt Chump will be healthy enough, or even alive, to run in 2024.

[MoonRiver]

This is all bluster, designed to make himself appear relevant.

[Mike 03]

1. Agreed.

Just watched this interview with Mary Trump. In addition to his physical woes, mental illness and cognitive decline, she points out that his fragile ego will never allow him to put himself in a position of losing ever again. She believes her uncle is experiencing humiliation, helplessness and rage unlike anything he's ever had to face before, and there's no one to rescue him, and that he'll never want to even risk experiencing these feelings again.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214544224

[Roy Rolling]

45. He's not fit *now*

He already needs a plexiglass shield to keep a breeze from tipping him over.

[Deuxcents]

2. I agree

This is all about gifting his gullible cult followers.

[BComplex]

3. Gawd I hope you're right about that.

I hope he doesn't make it that far.

[Statistical]

4. He may not survive until 2024 but I full expect him to announce he is running (and soon).

The second he officially begins his 2024 candidacy the grift train can restart full speed ahead. The MAGAs are the stupidest marks that Trump has ever encountered in 60 years of being a conman. He isn't going to give that up.

[MoonRiver]

6. I totally agree.

The minute Biden is sworn in, the con will begin, again.

[Mike 03]

7. Definitely. Also, to save face.

And to at least pretend like he's still all-powerful.

[deurbano]

38. Gotta keep the cash and adulation coming in, but i agree he's unlikely to be fit enough (which

could include lack of life!) to actually participate in the 2024 election. (Of course, he wasn't fit enough in 2016 0r 2020, either...) He never stopped running as *president, so can't see him stopping now.

[usaf-vet]

54. He's going to push Ivanka forward.... after she has another visit to the plastic surgeon.......

..... lifting, tucking, and botox injection. Got to give those repug males a reason to vote for another Trump. Jr and Eric lack that "flair".

Of course, if she wasn't such an airhead and a Trump. That might help to get her to a 27% approval rate.

[greenjar_01]

5. He's deteriorated remarkably since 2016

[stopbush]

8. Can he run from prison?

[Sherman A1]

10. Yes, he can

might be a little tough on the whole large rally thing, but he can certainly run from a jail cell.

[MoonRiver]

15. But can he vote for himself?

[PatSeg]

9. Oh, that was my first reaction as well

It is just another ruse that he will use to hold onto his base, feed his ego, and of course make money.

Meanwhile, it is all downhill for Trump from this point on.

[Hortensis]

21. Best guess, all spot on. Just hope he manages to finish off the GOP.

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[PatSeg]

22. That is my hope as well

I was really surprised that once Joe won, republicans in congress still stood by him. The gaslighting was really far more intense and thorough than I'd realized. Hard to believe how weak and easily intimidated these people are. Apparently there is no principle worth fighting for, as they put their political careers above morality and the country they claim to love.

I guess their devotion goes only as far as wearing a flag pin, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and paying lip service to our soldiers. Of course they'll always stand during the national anthem, but they won't stand up to a corrupt tyrant as he destroys the democracy the serve. It is truly disgraceful. History will not remember them well.

[Hortensis]

24. +100. An inescapable imperative for most now is those two GA senate races.

Their base likely would remember their "betraying" the party now, whereas most of their usual betrayals could be painted over SOP before the next election.

But, those studying the increasing authoritarianism of the Republican Party say that when it "fell off the cliff" with Trump, a lot of Republicans officeholders jumped off with it. We're seeing them fully embracing fascistic tactics for obtaining power, including demonization without limits.

Reportedly, a 2020 report from over 600 political scientists will show that the Republican Party now compares to Viktor Orban's in Hungary. And almost all of them have been reelected by conservative voters who've also leaped or been swept over that cliff.

Btw, regarding the unusually clean (!) 2020 elections, my favorite guess is that the Republicans sabotaged the election theft they depend on to win by causing both increased scrutiny by national security agencies and increased attention by the citizenry.

And now the rage of our wannabe-full-on-fascists at losing!

[BarbD]

39. Ahh, the old fear mongering ploy.

I'm placing my hope in Stacey Abrams and the incredible organizing she has done in Georgia. We can win these two senate seats. We certainly have the best candidates.

[PatSeg]

50. It would seem

that once they go too far, there is no path back. They know they are stuck there and are probably regretting not keeping a low profile throughout the Trump administration. The quiet ones have a better chance of surviving. Even though they were too cowardly to speak up, at least they didn't draw attention to themselves.

It is kind of like getting involved with the mob. You don't get a little bit involved and then change your mind and say, "Oh this isn't for me". Either you're in or you're out, there is no middle ground. Once the taint is on you, it never washes off.

Good point about republicans sabotaging their own predictable election theft. Oops!

[malaise]

11. THIS

Won't make it to summer of 2021

[marble falls]

12. That's my thought.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

13. Unless they change the law, felons can't run for President.

So, there's that.

[beastie boy]

14. Alive or dead, he will run. The pathological attention whore will keep himself on life support just

to see himself in the news headlines one more time.

[Initech]

16. I forsee a massive coronary in his near future.

Think he's mad now? He's a powder keg waiting to go off, and when that happens, it's not going to be pretty!

[PCIntern]

18. Yes. He has a clinical appearance diagnosis of LLS

Looks Like Shit.

[UTUSN]

17. *Or* to scarfe up $100M for a book deal - he has no insight, nobody wants to know about him!1

[GoCubsGo]

19. I tend to agree with this.

The same goes for his reality TV show and TV network, and whatever else they're claiming he has planned. If he's not dead, he'll likely be incapacitated by another stroke, or by heart disease, or both. All the drugs they have been pumping him with are not going to mitigate his shitty lifestyle, or all the stress he is undoubtedly under. Or, the aftereffects of his COVID-19 infection, along with the side-effects from all of those drugs, and all the ones he's taking on his own.

[Dirty Socialist]

20. The SDNY will ruin his reputation

I don’t see how he will be electable after John Law is done with him

[Hoyt]

23. Every loser, whether politics or sports says they are coming back. He won't.

[NCjack]

40. Yes, I think you are correct. The question for me is: What "Always Trumper' Repuke

thinks he/she can gain leadership of the Maggots? With DJT in 2023-24 struggling with dementia and his ass screwed to a wheelchair, I can see 50 Repukes trying to be either the candidate or the kingmaker. There maybe some violent showdowns a la OK corral. I don't see them as a threat in 2024. The real threat is in 2022 to the control of both house of congress.

[Hoyt]

49. Good point about 2022. Like the image -- trump "struggling with dementia and his ass screwed

to a wheelchair."

[IronLionZion]

25. He should flee the country and run while in exile like a third world dictator. nt

[Auggie]

26. Same here. He wants to be a MAGAT MARTYR ...

and try to rebuild his brand. Hard to do from prison unless he flees the country.

[RainCaster]

35. Once he fleas the country, he can't run in 2024

Yeah, I spelled it wrong on purpose.
BTW, DFT can't be a good martyr this side of the grave. He needs to revise his use of the term.

[Auggie]

44. The talk about running in 2024 is malarkey (my new word)

Trump has switched to survival mode -- his brand, what wealth is left, and his personal freedom.

[jcgoldie]

27. Knock on wood

✊️

[Dios Mio]

28. I think the same.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. Any cardio events won't be workouts

That's for sure.

[pandr32]

30. Agreed 100%

[shrike3]

31. The motherfuckers of the world live forever.

Don't count Trump out.

[MyOwnPeace]

32. We have an idea how it's going to end............

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

33. In four years, three actually to the real start of the

2024 campaign system, he will have become totally irrelevant and it's my opinion that the GOP will simply close ranks against him.

[NNadir]

34. It will be hard to campaign from prison in any case.

[wcollar]

36. My thought exactly

Prison or he will have moved on to a warmer place

[capechacon]

37. Honestly, do you really think his loyalists would care if a dead and stuffed.....

....Trump ran for president in 2024? They'd STILL vote for the corpse.

Interestingly, the corpse might be a much better candidate -- it would lie far less than if a live Trump were to run.

[njhoneybadger]

41. He's not going to have the White House physician either.

The White House physician has an office inside the White House. The location of his or her medical unit plays an important role in keeping the President of the United States healthy. He or she also oversees a staff which is typically composed of five military physicians, five physician assistants, five nurses, three paramedics, three administrators and one IT Manager. The White House Physician is metaphorically the "shadow of the President" because he or she is always close at hand whether the President is at the White House, overseas, on the campaign trail, or aboard presidential plane Air Force One. Wikipedia

[BarbD]

42. He is impotent and on the edge of irrelevancy.

Every up has its down.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

43. or paroled (n/t)

[newdayneeded]

46. Covid

Some here are saying he might not have had Covid, he was just trying to get the sympathy vote. if that's the case, maybe he'll be hit by the real Covid deal.

[Harker]

47. Dead Trump for president 2024!

He'll find a way to get on the ballot somehow.

[Ligyron]

48. He's Hitler now, in his bunker moving non existent army divisions about.

As the reality of his situation slowly begins to dawn on him, firing public servants deemed too honest to have been sufficiently loyal and doing his best to destroy the government on his way out is his equivalent of Hitler's orders to turn the guns on the German people who somehow allowed his downfall.

It's just unfortunate that knowing the end is near, Trump doesn't possess Hitler's courage.

[Beartracks]

51. Sadly, 70+ million Americans voted for him. So he IS relevant...

... especially considering that so many elected Republicans, too, are just absolutely enthralled with the opportunity to cover for him, kiss his ass, and continue his work.

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[Pepsidog]

52. Stroke out from all the drugs and junk food is my bet.

[WiseElder]

53. THE GOOD NEWS

Is that there is nothing in the Constitution prohibiting Trump from running from his jail cell.

[dawn5651]

55. well don't forget he can soak money out of people too

[Warpy]

56. He is addicted to campaigning, especially his pep rallies

He needs them like sensible people need oxygen. It's why he started having them the week after he was sworn in 4 years ago. He had little interest in doing the actual job. He loved campaigning for it.

He'll be much the same 4 years from now, a little more stooped and a lot angrier, but much the same.

[Politicub]

57. He may declare Trumpism as a religion so he doesn't have

to pay taxes on the money that rubes will pay to hear him speak.

[maxsolomon]

58. Dick Cheney is still alive.

Rupert Murdoch is still alive.

Don Young is still alive.

The bad sleep well.

[BrightKnight]

59. Lol- or eligible - nt