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What will post-presidency life look like for the Trumps? (Original Post) GreenPartyVoter Apr 2020 OP
He will be on Fox every single day, tweeting 400 times a day just to get noticed. redstatebluegirl Apr 2020 #1
The climate on Turbineguy Apr 2020 #2
Running his tin cup against the cell bars gratuitous Apr 2020 #3
I wish! GreenPartyVoter Apr 2020 #4
Here's what I'm hoping for: The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #5
Love it! I join you in the wishful thinking, but I will add GreenPartyVoter Apr 2020 #6
I'd add that he could barely breath after barely surviving the corona virus captain queeg Apr 2020 #9
Very nice LakeArenal Apr 2020 #14
I like that he will have to go from Diet Coke to Diet Pepsi. Patterson Apr 2020 #19
His family has enriched themselves enormously over the last four years. Voltaire2 Apr 2020 #7
Trying to learn Russian. jeffreyi Apr 2020 #8
I think they will take a stab at Trump TV. n/t demmiblue Apr 2020 #10
Trump will create a media empire to outfox Fox News andym Apr 2020 #11
As long as the Dotard and his family are gone, who cares? Nt raccoon Apr 2020 #12
Once a grifter, always a grifter vapor2 Apr 2020 #13
They wont be hanging out with the former presidents. And I think that kills him. EllieBC Apr 2020 #15
If there is any justice .... JT45242 Apr 2020 #16
+1000 SoonerPride Apr 2020 #17
If only: Bars. & I don't mean the Happy Hour kind. UTUSN Apr 2020 #18
Depends on which presidency you're talking about customerserviceguy Apr 2020 #20

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,674 posts)
5. Here's what I'm hoping for:
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 12:57 PM
Apr 2020

My favorite fate-of-Trump fantasy has him dead broke and living alone in a run-down double-wide in a seedy trailer park somewhere in, say, Nebraska, where it gets very hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and is susceptible to tornadoes. He spends his days sitting on the steps of his humble home drinking diet Pepsi, eating KFC and railing about the injustices done to him. He has become dangerously obese; his old clothes no longer fit so most of the time he wears XXX-L sweat pants and a stained wife-beater undershirt adorned with a six-foot-long red polyester necktie. Because he is no longer able to manage his hairdo, his fringe of stringy, now-gray hair hangs almost to his shoulders, revealing his shiny, blotchy scalp. His neck wattles obscure his actual neck almost entirely.

He is living off proceeds from the sale of some items of personal property that Melania missed when she cleaned out the New York apartment and took off for Slovenia; these included several sets of monogrammed gold cufflinks and a roomful of dictator-Baroque gilded chairs. He kept the throniest-looking chair to sit in at night while he watches Fox News on a small, very old tv with a coat hanger for an antenna, hoping Sean Hannity will mention him. He never does. Don Jr. sometimes writes to him from prison but the rest of his family is in Brazil, which does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S., and he hasn't heard from them in months.

He wonders what he will do when he has sold the last set of cufflinks. The pawn shop owner is not very generous, and the only collectors who might be interested are those unemployed neckbeards who live in their parents' basements and collect knockoff Nazi memorabilia.

Sometimes he waddles over to the neighbors' trash bins and pokes around in them with a stick, never with his little hands, hoping to find a copy of the New York Times or the Washington Post that might have an article about him. He wonders if Maggie Haberman still writes about him. Since his neighbors do not subscribe to these newspapers, he is able to imagine that his name still appears in them from time to time. Sometimes he finds uneaten French fries in the bins, which is a nice bonus when it happens, but most of the time the neighbors chase him away.

The worst thing of all is that Vladimir Putin no longer takes his calls.

GreenPartyVoter

(72,377 posts)
6. Love it! I join you in the wishful thinking, but I will add
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 01:00 PM
Apr 2020

that he is spurned at every turn by programs that he helped to decimate.

captain queeg

(10,170 posts)
9. I'd add that he could barely breath after barely surviving the corona virus
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 01:08 PM
Apr 2020

And that everyone who sees him laughs uncontrollably. All media ignores him, and he is under indictment for his crimes. not necessarily in prison yet but looking at terms of hundreds of years and none of his old associates will talk to him

Voltaire2

(13,009 posts)
7. His family has enriched themselves enormously over the last four years.
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 01:04 PM
Apr 2020

They will continue to fuck with america for the foreseeable future, using the vast resources they have accumulated and the protection of the courts they have staffed with their cronies.

Also I fully expect NOTHING will be done to hold any of them to account for the crap they have done while in office or working for this administration.

andym

(5,443 posts)
11. Trump will create a media empire to outfox Fox News
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 01:11 PM
Apr 2020

and his friends with money will probably invest so it could become a reality.

EllieBC

(3,013 posts)
15. They wont be hanging out with the former presidents. And I think that kills him.
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 01:21 PM
Apr 2020

They all seem to manage to get along (which is probably why they made it that high and most people will never) but he won't be part of their club. Not being in the club is going to gut him and it will be hilarious.

JT45242

(2,262 posts)
16. If there is any justice ....
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 01:26 PM
Apr 2020

On jan 15, 2021 He resigns. Pence immediately pardons him for all federal crimes.

He thinks he is off the hook.

Then the state of NY arrests him for tax fraud, wire fraud, and security fraud on January 19. They seize all his new york assets. He is charged with RICO and arrested with his passport confiscated. He is then transported to Rikers in isolation pending his trial.

Deutsche Bank forecloses on all other assets. Which are later all seized by the federal government because the family business was not pardoned by Pence.

junior and all the siblings except Barron and Tiffany die of mysterious polonium related ingestion accidents.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
20. Depends on which presidency you're talking about
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 02:55 PM
Apr 2020

After the current presidency is over with, there's still the opportunity to be president of the Confederate States of America 2.0. The surviving anti-lockdown protesters will be happy to make that nation come into being.

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