What if Trump suddenly flees to Russia and takes the football with him?

[Le Gaucher]

Frighteningly possible!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The Pentagon would just change the codes.

Anyhow, he doesn't even carry it; there's a military officer who travels with him that has physical control over it. Trump can't even fold up an umbrella.

[Le Gaucher]

4. I am just wondering if the original designers ever thought of this scenario

Kidnap yes ..but this..I doubt it

[Le Gaucher]

10. What is the protocol for that .. What prevents that from happening now?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. It's actually kind of complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football

[bearsfootball516]

2. That's one heck of a theory you've got there.

[TheBlackAdder]

29. The bottom of the suitcase says "PlaySkool" on it.

[demmiblue]

3. No it isn't. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. The president doesn't carry the "football."

A military officer has charge of it. If it fell into the wrong hands somehow, the Pentagon would just change the codes.

[Agschmid]

5. No, it's not.

[Caliman73]

7. I am sure that they would suspend the codes in that case.

The president does not usually carry the "football" alone anyway. Usually a military personnel will be with him. We will likely know where he is headed before he gets there. It would be a MAJOR scandal and serious international incident, but he would not likely be able to give access to our nuclear weapons to Russia, especially if we knew he was fleeing.

[FSogol]

8. pos·si·ble - adjective - 1. able to be done; within the power or capacity of

of someone or something

Nope.

[Totally Tunsie]

9. Good riddance.

[BSdetect]

11. I'm pretty sure they gave him an inflatable replica anyway...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. It doesn't inflate. It's a briefcase.

[LakeSuperiorView]

24. The real football is said to weigh about 45 pounds.

tRump probably has a replica with the functionality of a toddler's play phone.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. He probably can't carry 45 lbs.

except for the extra lard on his gut.

[bearsfootball516]

28. He's also not going to outrun anybody with it.

The guy wouldn't be able to outrun a snail carrying a sumo wrestler.

[tirebiter]

12. Shoot him down

The military's job is to protect us from threats foreign or domestic. 2 out of 2 sorta covers it

[NightWatcher]

15. This this this

[Whiskeytide]

13. Change the codes and send his ass..

... a bill for fumigating the White House.

[TeamPooka]

17. you have an active imagination un-rooted in reality. The president doesn't carry the football.

military officers do.
he's not overpowering any of them to get it and then outrun them.

[Le Gaucher]

18. What can I say? Its the times we live in

[TeamPooka]

19. no, it's unrealistic fantasy that you seem to think is "frighteningly possible."

It is not.
Don't be an unhinged conspiracy theorist.
That's the Republican's job.

[onenote]

23. +1

[bearsfootball516]

21. See my post below.

[bearsfootball516]

20. It's kind of a funny image.

As if Trump could grab the nuclear football and somehow outrun dozens of highly athletic Secret Service agents. The dude can't even walk a hole of golf without getting on his golf cart.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Especially since the "football" is a 45-lb. briefcase.

Tiny can't outrun anybody, ever.

[tandem5]

22. They're not literal codes that anybody can use to launch a strike...

it's more like a protocol to verify an unbroken chain of command from the top. It's not automatic as in computerized -- the process goes by way of multiple people. If Trump flees he could still conceivably call in his codes to verify his identity for a command, but then it wouldn't really matter as he's a fled traitor and the order would be ignored.

[FiveGoodMen]

33. Unless Joshua is still lurking in the machine!

[Kajun Gal]

26. Let him go!!! He'd have fun there! Please, go!!!

[sarisataka]

30. Normally such a ridiculous idea

Would Merit a sarcastic reply

However I will not because it is comedic gold for a video short.

The great Trump Escape

Opening scene is Trump in the motorcade complaining he needs to use the bathroom and they pull up to a 7-Eleven. He jumps out of the limo and scoots into the bathroom having grab the football before anybody can realize it.

Next scene is the Secret Service standing guard outside the door asking if everything is okay. Swipe to Interior shot of trump squeezing his ass outside of the window in the back with a plane ticket to Moscow clutched in his teeth.

Final scene is Trump running down the alley clutching the football in both hands, toupee flapping, screaming for a taxi to take him to the airport. Behind him is a mass of Secret Service agents chasing him like the Keystone Cops.

Final cut back to the limo with a befuddled military officer holding the actual football and asking a secret service agent why the president ran off with his lunch.

[enid602]

31. Trump leave?

And leave his adoring children to face the guillotine alone? Never!

[RainCaster]

32. Dancing in the streets!

We would all celebrate