It's Sunday morning after the Inauguration and Trump desperately wants out.

[no_hypocrisy]

He wants to leave the White House and go to Mar-a-Lago or Trump Tower. The White House is a "dump" and he's seen enough. He hates the fact that he has to stay there. (If only he could be president from Trump Tower . . . . ) He hates the fact that he's an employee. He has to work on others' terms and schedules. He's counting the days until he resigns or is impeached. He signed up to "win", not be president.

[Kath2]

1. The sooner he is gone, the better!

Rise. Love. Resist!

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, I think he was in it for the game of winning, and that was it. IMO he was shocked as hell when

he actually won. My hunch is Pence will be president, awful, within the next 4 years.

[SHRED]

3. Maybe Pence will be impeached and/or inducted also

I hope the CIA have the goods on him also.

[MoonRiver]

5. Not unless we take the House and Senate in two years.

And we know the odds for that happening.

[SHRED]

6. I meant maybe Pence and tRump will be...

...found by the CIA to have colluded with Russia during the campaign.

But I don't think even they are that stupid to leave their fingerprints.

[MoonRiver]

9. They very well could be that stupid.

But what would happen after that? Repukes might turn on orange, but not Pence. It would be left to the voters, if we still can vote by then.

[SHRED]

10. I'm talking about criminal indictments

Not just impeachment.

[MoonRiver]

16. Ok, but I still don't think orange's AG will go there.

[SHRED]

17. So if there is direct evidence tRump and Russia conspired...

...you're saying nothing will be done?

[MoonRiver]

18. I think they would go after Rump, but not Pence.

I could be wrong, and HOPE I AM!

[Zoonart]

11. YEAH...

THEN WE GET RYAN... YAY !Wait...what?

[RKP5637]

19. These guys are so horrible, Trump/Pence, they make Ryan look really good. n/t

[TrekLuver]

23. Yes....at this point I can't imagine that Pence's hands are clean.

[TNNurse]

27. Then we get Paul Ryan.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. If Pence goes we get Paul Ryan.

If he goes we get Orrin Hatch, then Tillerson (if confirmed), followed by the other flying-monkey cabinet members. The succession is: Speaker of the House, President pro tem of the Senate, and the cabinet, beginning with the Secretary of State. There's not much to hope for.

[ginnyinWI]

4. maybe Pence will, be starting this week.

It would be very much in character for DT to start delegating most of it to the VP. As soon as he figures out that he can.

[RKP5637]

21. Trump, is so clueless he probably has no idea how to do it. What a bunch. And motor-mouth

Kellyanne Conway, does she ever come up for air for a breath? I listened to her this morning, what a master of deflection. I do have to admit though, she is exceptionally good at that and exceptionally smart. ... wish she was on our side.

[Wellstone ruled]

26. Have to give credit to her.

She has learned the how of the Gish Gallop. Like a Auctioneer,this takes hours and hours of practice and and rehearsing.

Sad part,with this person every thing that comes out of her mouth is still pure crap.

[RKP5637]

33. Exactly, pure crap! What a wasted talent in the big scheme of life. n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

37. We have a Lady

Auctioneer family friend. Hey,the Lady is a multi-millionaire all as a result of her Auctioning ability. Like they say in the business,she gets the good sales.

[Dulcinea]

22. Same here.

He never wanted the job. He ran to get free publicity for his business ventures. I don't think he ever thought he'd get this far. Now he's stuck, & so are we.

[RKP5637]

29. That night he won sitting next to Obama, he looked absolutely totally stunned, like WTF!

What am I doing here. If I were him, I would be way more happy running his empire than all of the BS with a presidency, a horrible job IMO.

[Norbert9]

7. The beauty of imagining him unhappy

I'm sure they're scheming something for pence to stay and him go to NY for the business of the country blah blah.

I see impeachment as an improvement if and only if pence rids us of bannon and Conway. Less likely on the latter I think.

[SamKnause]

8. I hope the bloated, EVIL, orange fuck with the butthole shaped

mouth is miserable for the rest of his life.

He should quit and take his children of the corn with him.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. Heh.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. And you have to wonder how he will react once he realizes that the Republicans

will use him as a battering ram, and dump him in the moat once they break through.

[RKP5637]

30. That, IMO, is exactly what is going to happen! He's a tool, a stooge! n/t

[kairos12]

13. I think this is very accurate.

[Achilleaze]

14. The Pence of Darkness (IKGOPR*) lies waiting in the shadows

* Illegitimate KGOP Regime, Inc.

[RKP5637]

31. Fangs to soon emerge! n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

15. You may just have started a new meme: "Free Donald Trump"

My brain is spinning over the possible angles with which to play the theme.

[lunatica]

20. Awe! Bummer!

[BigBearJohn]

25. Personally I think his health is going to fail him and he can't take the stress. The bigger they are

[Cryptoad]

28. Compare the pic of before the campaign and now...

he looks like a walking dead man.

[jalan48]

32. He needs to pay off his Russian debts first then he's "Outta here"!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. When Дональда Джона Трампа lifts sanctions against Russia, Putin will

Putin will tell the oligarchs to forgive the debt.

Then Putin will threaten Дональда Джона Трампа (tRump) with the evidence gathered over the years (tapes, bank statements, etc.) and tRump will resign to prevent it coming out.

Pence will take over, but he is an unknown quantity for Putin. Putin is playing a risky game.

[ginnyinWI]

36. see this DU thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028516301

[hollowdweller]

38. I'm not sure he wanted to win

I mean to me, he looked really concerned when he found out he won.

Sadly he got out there and looked around and found out the right things to say to get people to vote for him.

However to really make most of the payoff to those people he is going to have to join with democrats against his own party.

A lot of the people who voted for him want good jobs and a sense of security without having to leave the area that they love or grew up in.

However the trend is opposite of the 70's 80's where everything was moving out of the urban areas. Now we are seeing a big concentration of jobs, population and wealth in the cities.

To bring jobs back to the areas that are hurting is going to be hard. Not only will you have to spend shit tons of money on improving internet service and transportation, you are going to actually have to get younger people to move back, you can't get things going with a few young people, average age in the 50's and a bunch or retired people. Also you either are going to have to educate or move back people there who can start their own businesses, because it will be hard to get factories going again.

His supporters are angry and I'm sure he knows that anger could be turned toward him at the slightest fuck up.

[hay rick]

39. Exactly right.

Except I think impeachment or resignation would bruise his ego. I believe he will hand off as much of the job as possible to other people. He wants to hire, fire, and tweet. All the rest is just dreary stuff he will try to avoid. For policy, I think the people around him will be much more important than he is. They can earn his trust by showing they have good comeback lines when something fails or are good at creating distractions when policies are particularly repulsive. Navigating around Trump's massive, fragile ego will always be a primary concern.