Let's be honest - Trump is MISERABLE being President

[titaniumsalute]

He had a very nice life going. The rockstar lifestyle. His own Boeing 757, winters at Mar-A-Lago and Doral Golf Club. Summers in NJ and his other properties. Gallivanting around the globe being Mr Bigshot. He had pretty solid ratings at NBC for the Apprentice. Flashy kids, big NY City Penthouse, lots of Hollywood/Celebrity friends.

Now? He has meeting after meeting after meeting of stuff he couldn't give two shits less about. He has to be protected 24/7 by a massive amount of Secret Service. He can't just decide to get up and go to one of his properties...that needs to be planned weeks in advance for SS. He can't just go out to dinner with family and friends. He can't do a TV show for his "ratings and ego" fix. Hollywood/Celebrities mostly hate him now. I imagine other friends have probably abandoned him. He is 100% under a microscope at every minute of the day now. His approval ratings suck so that makes him even more miserable.

So what is the breaking point? Does he resign and claim "I won mother Fers...but nobody appreciated me so bye bye..." Does he burrow in and double down on his BS campaign promises and help Congress lose the House in 2018 and lose BIGLY in 2020? Does he die of a stroke from stress?

[randr]

1. He has always been a miserable human

I suspect he will pull a health issue out of his lying ass like he did for the draft.

[grantcart]

27. Agreed

he needs attention

he needs adulation

he needs people to think that he is the smartest person in the world

I don't think he is going to invent a medical event I think his body is going to say that all this attention is exposing him and his body is going to impeach his ass.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029047657

[politicat]

40. It will be the worst, best case of FuckYouIGotMineitis EVER.

With comorbid TakeMyBallGoHomealgia and TooGoodForYouPeasants Disorder.

[titaniumsalute]

49. Beautiful!

[Staph]

46. I didn't know that

bone spurs in your feet were so debilitating that one could no longer serve as president.

Poor baby!

[lunasun]

2. I am sure his ego gets a boost everyday in office

[titaniumsalute]

11. I think at first he was loving it...

The campaign he was high as a kite...adoring, cheering crowds and lots of positive media attention. During the transition I'm sure he was high on life...no real responsibilities. He came into office and was going to start checking off his campaign to-do list. Immigrant muslims ban, border wall, repeal ACA, etc. All that went to shit quickly. I bet at this point he wakes up and prays that he wasn't President.

[Orsino]

3. Whatever his excuse for resigning, it will be weak.

He never brought any talent to the table, not even for lying, so his departure will also be pathetic.

It will amount to I-won't-stand-for-this-witch-hunt, which also parses to "nobody appreciated me," though he will give a shout-out to his remaining supporters in order to claim his continuing popularity.

And millions will weep, blaming the libruls, furriners and Illegals.

[tblue37]

18. Palin offered a similar excuse, claiming that all those unfair investigations interfered

with the necessary work of government, so she would sacrifice herself by resigning so as to remove the distraction.

[Orsino]

22. Palin was a fad, and needed no grand excuses.

Trump is an American institution, a mythology built on the notion of him as an international playboy, lover of beautiful women, and smart businessman, made personable to millions via a TV show.

Right-wing America's inevitable disappointment will be exponentially greater at Trump's fall. Revelation after revelation will present a truer picture of him as a sad, isolated old man, a pampered dumbass with no strength of character, no sense of patriotism, and only an adolescent's grasp of anything.

He will envy Palin's slide into ignominy.

[titaniumsalute]

28. Nicely put

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. I wonder how miserable he'll be living in prison.

We can only hope at this point.

[Txbluedog]

15. Again, he is NOT going to Prison

This will be for the same reason Hillary will never go to prison. The US will not open the Pandora's box that will result in charging and jailing a former POTUS or First Lady. This opens up the first couple to be prosecuted in other countries. Never going to happen. At best, he'll for made to resign or some calamity will befall him.

[hamsterjill]

16. Exactly what are you implying that Hillary could go to prison for?

There is a BIG difference between Hillary and Donald Trump. And about 3 million of us will always remember that.

[Txbluedog]

19. I am not implying anything about Hillary...

I am just pointing out that the deplorable are as much likely to achieve their pipedream of Hillary going to prison as we are about Trump going to prison.

[hamsterjill]

20. Thank you for that clarification.

And welcome to DU.

[enid602]

38. Humiliating

For someone like tRump, asset seizure might be 1000 times more humiliating than imprisonment.

[Aristus]

5. Everything after 'does he burrow in' is cool with me...

[Kittycow]

6. Also in his old life, everyone was a YES man.

Now, not so much. But I think overall the big bucks and perks rolling in for the trump family via government corruption is worth the inconvenience to him.

[MANative]

7. It all comes down to accountability.

He's never had any, never wanted it, and wouldn't accept it even when the situation demanded it. And there's no job on the planet with more accountability than POTUS. I'd bet that miserable doesn't ven scratch the surface. Good. When his misery becomes unbearable and he dumps out, ours will finally end.

[RandomAccess]

24. Exactly. He's wiggled out of everything. Or

BOUGHT his way out of tight spots.

Now he's brought up short again and again because the government world doesn't work that way. Not everyone is dependent on him for the deals they want. Too many people can't be bullied or bought and there are checks and balances over which he has absolutely no control, though he's trying to exert control over them one way or another.

How he tried to "manage" Comey was a perfect example of his way of doing things being completely out of place and totally ineffective.

[wiggs]

8. It doesn't seem like he really cares about any single issue at all, so what would get him up in

the morning and help him get through the trials and rigors of the office?

The power high might last only so long, especially if he realizes he doesn't have as much power as he thought...and the self-dealing and personal enrichment is nice but he can't tell anyone about it.

No evidence he cares about the American people...so of course he hates a job where that's supposed to be the priority.

[Sugar Smack]

9. The most recent photos of Trump are of ACUTE discomfort.

He resembles a rabid, cornered, startled beast. Trump's limited vocabulary ("tremendous", "outstanding", & phenomenal&quot will be useless in other parts of the globe. I'm wondering if anyone's told him he's not campaigning any more. I wonder if he'll hand out copies of his election map to the Saudis.

Remember all that smirking he used to do? Exhaustion has wiped that smug look off his face.

[janterry]

10. He'll resign if he gets a deal

It's his last bargaining chip - and he sure doesn't want to go to trial.

[cloudbase]

12. Whenever I had a bad day at work,

I'd go look in the mirror and say "Get back to work, asshole. You asked for this job, so get to it."

[CrispyQ]

13. His biographer was on MSNBC the other night & he said,

as soon as Trump figures out a way to spin it as a victory, he'll resign.

I agree he's miserable. He had no idea that government was so different from the private sector, that being President is not the same as being CEO. He thought he could say "You're fired," & his ratings would go up. He didn't anticipate that people would challenge his directives, question what he says.

[titaniumsalute]

14. I couldn't agree more

He knows financially he's now set for life. Maybe start his own right wing cable network. Write a book (well it will be ghostwritten of course) and do a six month global book tour. Go back on Stern's show...maybe produce some TV shows. All that crap he loves.

[hamsterjill]

17. Is it a bad thing that I take just a little bit of satisfaction

knowing that the asshole is miserable? And that I hope he's going to be bigly miserable before this is all over?

[War Pigs]

34. oh hell no it's not bad

He's destroyed our institutions and tried to delegitimize our 44th President. Fuck the ovarian lottery winner and his useless family

[hamsterjill]

44. Works for me!

Welcome to DU.

[greatauntoftriplets]

21. Good.

His presidency is making me miserable.

[Initech]

23. See Donnie? This is what happens when you're held accountable for something.

[HughBeaumont]

25. It's like someone asked before -

If these motherfuckers ALREADY LIVE a fiscally comfortable Life of Riley to the point where their GREAT-grandkids will never have to work, what's in it for THEM to attain drastically-lower paying jobs for the purpose of making life not only far EASIER for them, but far HARDER and more difficult to access for everyone else?

[Ilsa]

26. He really thought this was just an honorary job, I guess.

He had no idea how much analysis and deliberation is needed to make good policy and implement it.

[WoonTars]

29. He will resign. Most likely late this year, or early next year...

...but definitely before the 2018 mid-terms...

[hatrack]

30. Good! I hope the misery ramps up exponentially . . .

[War Pigs]

31. his tears are so delicious!!

He chose to be in the fishbowl for the last stages of his shallow existence. Dunning Kruger effect in overdrive here and couldn't happen to a nicer turd. Nice retirement you got there Cheetolini

[LisaM]

32. Good.

I think November 9, 2016 was the absolute worst day of my life and all I can hope is that someday he feels equally miserable.

[Grammy23]

37. I admit it was a low point for me but by no means the worst.

I think shock and despair about covers it. Took months before the numb feeling wore off. I hope tRump understands why some people (MANY PEOPLE) despise him and the ground he walks on, but realistically, I know even that won't happen. He isn't capable of that. Sadly, it's his family that will have to know and feel the shame he has brought upon the tRump name. But hey, they helped inflict the horror of Donald tRump on the world, so I can't get worked up with much sympathy for them.

[J_William_Ryan]

33. The American people are just as miserable with the idiot Trump in the WH.

[treestar]

35. It shows how stupid he really is

that he did not figure this out before he ran. Did he actually think it meant he'd be a dictator on top of it all?

[Grammy23]

41. Yes. Yes, he did. Nt

[underpants]

36. and he can't go near his beloved NYC

Must suck for the guy.

[RelativelyJones]

39. Just like in the Aimee Mann song

He wanted to be stopped, but couldn't believe he won. Now he is very bitter about the life he has to lead.

[LonePirate]

42. He only wanted the title and adoration being President. He never wanted the work associated with it.

He is the anti-Obama in every way possible as I always thought Obama wanted the work required of a President but he never seems to care for the actual title or the prestige or fan club associated with it.

[WMDemocract]

43. Yeah...

Lots of Dems are hoping impeachment gets him out of office. I think if anything gets him out of office prematurely it will be a voluntary resignation. He's just not used to dealing with the political process and simply being the head of one of three branches of power (and even then, with limited powers). He's used to a more top-down, pyramidal structure (with him at the top of course).

[Eyeball_Kid]

45. I'll dance on the dining room table...

when I see Trumpy in handcuffs and the state of New York confiscate all of his money, and the money of his kids, for the RICO conviction.

[3catwoman3]

47. It seems only fair that he is...

...being pRezident, seeing as he is doing such a miserable job at it.

I lost track of the number of times I said to myself, and others, "He has NO CLUE about what he is getting into. He only wants the glory of the title."

[RobinA]

48. Don't Forget

he has to live in government housing.

[oberliner]

50. I think he loves it

He's the leader of the free world. Can hold a rally with people cheering and screaming for him. And still hangs out at his golf clubs, except now he is an even bigger big shot then before.

He is not going anywhere.

[SHRED]

51. He'll never get out of this

His finances ate being investigated.

He did have it made.
Now he has the public spotlight.