The Scariest Days Of The Trump Presidency Could Be The Final 74

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — Americans nervous about a president who wanted troops to shoot border crossers, and who suggested using nuclear weapons against hurricanes, could be facing the scariest days of Donald Trump’s presidency: the final ones.

As intemperate, foolhardy and reckless as many of Trump’s actions have been to date, critics warn that they all took place as Trump faced a referendum from voters. Now, that pending job review has passed.

“He will create as much chaos as humanly possible,” said Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer who was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison for, in part, arranging illegal hush money payments to keep women from revealing affairs they had had with Trump just prior to the 2016 election.

“Donald Trump will take to the airwaves, to radio and print media whining about how the election was stolen from him due to fraud and foreign interference,” Cohen said. “He could never accept the fact that he lost because he is incompetent and arrogant.”

President-elect Joe Biden is set to assume the office at noon on Jan. 20, but Trump retains all of the powers of the presidency for the 74 remaining days until that moment, including his role as commander in chief of the United States armed forces and the country’s nuclear arsenal.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-scary-lame-duck-170558195.html

[XanaDUer2]

1. Yes

he's a cornered rat now

[bif]

2. Actually I think he's going to spend even more time on the golf course

Now that he REALLY doesn't give a shit about being president.

[Sneederbunk]

3. True, but many will be spent pouting.

[bullimiami]

4. the enablers are going to be a little wary of breaking laws when they know justice is coming.

[crickets]

11. 👆 This. trump has as much power as the sycophants will allow, and many of them in Congress

have to stick around after he's gone. Everyone other than Lindsey appears to be very circumspect at the moment. They may not want to be stuck holding the bag for whatever he gets up to from here on. They can't slide the blame for anything onto Biden (yet) while trump is still in the WH.

Everyone else around trump is probably totting up their lists of transgressions and wondering whether to slink away quietly or to double down, hoping to flee in time to escape justice. Congress and other public-facing government employees might be inclined to behave. The spawn? Maybe not so much.

[misanthrope]

5. Yes, while today signals the completion of another VERY important stage

in this presidential saga, it's not over by a long shot. He will seek to disrupt the electoral system, through the courts, through gaming the electors, any way possible.

If that doesn't work, then he ratchets up to the next stage in disruption. He will lash out.

And I can't stop thinking about the 70 million citizens who cast their votes for an evident racist with openly autocratic aspirations. How far will they go in enabling him? Just through their silent approbation? Something more kinetic?

[Chainfire]

6. With a little luck, he will just sulk and pout to the end.

[Cirque du So-What]

7. The spell has been broken

Nobody will tolerate his shit from here on out.

[bdamomma]

8. tRump

is a vengeful POS, let us not drop our guard down.

[OneBlueSky]

9. the fact that he's still the guy with his finger on the little red button . . .

is truly disturbing . . . I'm banking on the military officers controlling the "football" and nukes in general having some kind of failsafe procedures in place that will activate if Trump ever tries to even go near the nuclear codes . . . they're all intelligent and experienced professionals who are well aware of who and what Trump is, and what he's capable of . . . we have to trust that "they got this" . . . and pray that we're right . . .

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "Donald Trump will take to the airwaves,"

And the "airwaves" don't have to allow him to do so.

It's that simple.

For the first time in 4 years, the "airwaves" actually cut him off (except for a handful). So if they would FINALLY decide to take the oxygen out of the room then....

[ffr]

12. Unless he dies.

Either now or be it in four years, it had to happen.