There are three words he can say that scare me

[JohnnyRingo]

"These illegal protests"

Everything will change that day.

[obamanut2012]

1. He and others have alraedy called them that

[Stacey Grove]

2. "We're there dude." - Direct Butthead quote

[underpants]

3. Antifa- he's going to sign a National Security Memo making them a terrorist organization

I heard a great discussion about this in NPR. If I remember correctly we don’t have a designation for domestic ones. Antifa is both not foreign nor an organization.

They will be able to slap “Antifa” on anyone for anything. Anyone. You and me. That’s scary.

The NSMemo will be devastating in terms of fund raising and insurance.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. He wants you to be scared- don't be.

Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless

[lame54]

5. Right...

He was impotent on No Kings Day

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. And every day

He has much power, but very little actual control beyond the executive branch.

[JohnnyRingo]

9. My point is if he declares a protest illegal....

...he'll feel he can break it up any any means available. Unfortunately he can use any reasoning he wants to label an uprising a national threat and send in the military.

When he started sending the National Guard into cities, he said it was for "training purposes".

[Fiendish Thingy]

11. Why has he followed court orders against deploying troops in Chicago and Portland?

Why doesn’t he just jail or assassinate the judges ruling against him and deploy the troops anyway?

After all, as so many Third Term believers say, who would stop him ?

Something is stopping him.

Putin wouldn’t wait for the appeals process to wind its way through the courts.

[JohnnyRingo]

12. Too soon?

I don't know, but every day greets me with an outrage I never thought I ever see.
Other presidents have tried the illegal protests before but it always ended up making them look bad, Nixon in particular. Does that matter anymore at this point?

He doesn't like to see scorn. It hurts the image he tries to project.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goes-full-dictator-with-bonkers-threat-to-use-air-force-and-navy-in-us-cities/

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. How do you think the military, courts, congress and the people will respond if he invokes the Insurrection Act?

They won’t stand by idly twiddling their thumbs.

[MurrayDelph]

7. The only three words I want to hear from him

"My arm hurts"

[IzzaNuDay]

8. How about "My chest hurts"

or any sharp pain in his torso…

[Jbraybarten]

10. He's done that and more