Hopefully he's dead (from natural causes) or in jail (from natural consequences).
He'll be dead.
I really hope so but the absolute shit show when he does is going to be insane. The conspiracy theories will be like nothing ever imagined. It's going to be nuts. I'd look forward to it but I could see it getting violent.
Yeah, I've been tempted to make an AskLemmy post based on that premise - "If trump dies on the campaign trail of presumably natural causes, what will the aftermath be like" conspiracy shitshow revolving around "Assassinated by the deep state" and/or "Biden directed CIA/FBI/SPLC/CCP/Pelosi to do it" is definitely going to emerge.
It was the illegal immigrant trans furry Marxists, in the classified documents bathroom, with a hamberder full of vaccines!
Trump is now the Republican Party. He defines it and has virtually no opposition. Even the primary candidates mostly ran on the idea that Trump should win.
However, he also has no successor. When he dies, there’s going to be a scramble to figure out who can be the Trumpyest. There’s not going to be an orderly handover of power. I think it’s going to fracture their voter base between traditional conservatives, who will back someone like Ted Cruz, and the batshit crazy ones, who will back a Don Jr type.
Trump, for want of a better term, has the charisma that the entire party is hanging off of right now. Republicans have handed the fate of their party over to this man, because they have no real policies to sell to voters, and Trump voters don’t care about policy. Once he’s gone, there’s no one waiting in the wings to take over.
There’sno similar phenomenon on the Democratic side. There’s a handful of candidates from 2020 that I could see running again, including Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg, as well as newer candidates like Newsom. There might be an attempt to make Harris the heir apparent, but there’s no ride or die candidate the way the gop is with Trump.
Honestly, I'm surprised he's still alive giving his absolute contempt for everything remotely healthy.
The hate is keeping him alive
Like a Sith lord's ghost inhabiting a bloated, greasy corpse
His supporters will cryogenically preserve his body so he can keep perpetually lose every 4years.
Warhammer reference
if he wins in 2024, he’ll run in 2028, and 2032, etc. He’ll win those with 99% of the vote, just like his buddy Putin.
He won't run. He'll waddle.
Well, thankfully I feel like he's statistically unlikely to all that much longer.
He will keep the campaign going for as long as he lives to keep reaping in the donations.
If he's not dead of course he would, he's a malignant narcissist that we're going to be dealing with until he croaks.
Lose? Nah. If he doesn't win the election, we'll get Insurrection 2.0. Then he's either imprisoned, dead, or we get to live in a dictatorship.
Even likes to think the problems will go away if Trump dies. He's just the worm in the rotten apple. The apple is still rotten.
I think it’s less being blinded he’s just a symptom and more hope that he’s a one of a kind cult of personality that no one can replicate to unite the crazies again.
He seems like he's deteriorating rapidly, would be surprised if he made it to 2028. I expect if he loses in 2024 he won't run again but will keep conning his followers for money and repeating the stale line that he never lost even when he did.
Hopefully he’s died of a massive burger induced heart problem
I wouldn't be surprised if both Trump and Biden die of natural causes in September/October, throwing the November election into chaos as no one has anyone to vote for anymore.
It's just the sort of chaos this timeline seems to crave.
I'd bet if he loses in '24 his health will start declining quickly and will use health related reasons as a means to avoid punishment for crimes committed.
In response to most of the people in this thread:
Idk, y'all. The biggest assholes never die. They stay alive out of sheer spite.
How long did Kissinger stay alive. That monster was responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths all around the world.
one whole century
Its unbelievable. I hope that fucks in hell.
Remember: narcissists are psychologically incapable of imagining themselves no longer existing. He thinks he'll live forever because no other possibility is about to be conceived.
I hope he will be running from a psycho with a shank at ADX Florence in 2028. There’s a decent chance he will be dead in 2028 though. He’s not exactly the picture of fitness and good health. He’s an old, fat pig who lives on junk food.
More seriously, he has zero chance in 2028 if he loses in 2024, which is almost certainly what will happen. He’s been decisively rejected by voters once already. I find it hard to believe he has won over any new voters with his behavior since the last election.
Or maybe the government will step up and treat him like the terrorist that he is. If it was anyone else, they’d be waterboarding him with Diet Coke at Guantanamo right now. I mean, he’s openly calling for states to send the National Guard to Texas to fight the federal government. This fucker is on trial for insurrection and he’s out trying to incite another insurrection. Holy shit.
He’s had his deranged followers make threats against judges, prosecutors, federal agents, etc. He’s threatened his opponent in the primaries with a federal investigation if she doesn’t drop out of the race. He’s threatened her donors.
This dude is straight up nuts. I think it’s a legitimate question whether he’s eventually detained for the safety of the public pending his trials. At what point do the feds have an obligation to protect the country from this lunatic?
Forget about him and 2028. He might not even make it through 2024.
Weeds don't die. I wouldn't be surprised if the fat fuck chokes on a burger tomorrow... But i also wouldn't be surprised if he lives another 20 years
100%, he won't go away until he's forced to
He’ll be dead by 2028. Hopefully in a supermax and suffering up until his last moment.
Absolutely. He's that stupid.
Trump appears to be suffering from a serious cognitive decline since he was last president. He was never the sharpest spoon in the drawer, but it's bad now. If he's still alive in five years, I don't think he'll be capable of doing anything other than drooling on himself.
I don't think he'd survive that long. and if he did, that syphilitic brain of his would prevent him from even being viable to everyone but the ones who have trump flavoraid for blood.
He'll probably be dead by then, but the Republican Party will come up with another candidate who's even worse.
My guess is Jacob Chansley.
Wishful thinking but the elites don't mingle with the prolies, even if they are loyal idiots. I agree with Trump hopefully being dead by then. My guess is another DeSantis campaign but with some weird Trump martyrdom elements tbh. The cumulative conservative seething that 4 more years of Biden coupled with the death of their God Emperor will produce will rally them more than we've ever seen, I believe
Trump is cursed to live until he Makes America Great Again. He will run election after election, with unnatural longevity, but once he gets back in office he only has one term left to find the error of his ways, discover Wisdom in Friendship, and bring moral-philosophy-flavour-of-the-month to the troubled but inherently glorious institution of American politics, or the curse will be fulfilled and he will spend eternity haunting golf clubs and expensive hotels not quite dead but never quite alive.
...
Tune in later to part II, where, in a world taken over by the all-powerful EU, Donald's seventh descendent learns of the calamity of his forefather and sets out to rediscover the truth about America and set her people free from the tyranny of socialised healthcare. Coming soon: "The Seventh Trump"
Followed shortly after with direct-to-TV prequels "Seals and Fur Hats: the Decline of True America"; and sequels, "Bowling with the Ghosts of Presidents Past, Present and Future."
Not really, but I don't think it much matters.
If Trump hit upon a political strategy that is effective, then someone else will presumably use it, absent a change in the political environment.
He will be dead but I would expect him to try a run.
Is it a requirement these days to be a super old white man to be president of the united states?
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