Do you think TFG sticks around after a shellacking in November?

[Happy Hoosier]

25 votes, 4 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	He rides it out through the end... he has to build his arch!
	19 (76%)
	Declares he "saved" America and is abdicating
	1 (4%)
	Storms off in a huff of humiliation and fury
	1 (4%)
	Stays in off but spends almost every day playing golf
	4 (16%)
	4 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[pfitz59]

1. He won't leave until he's sucked the Treasury dry

So long as the grift is working.

[marble falls]

2. I sincerely think he'll go along willingly to be 25th Amendment-ed before the election so he has deniability about ...

... the brutal beating to come. Then he can claimed Democrats cut him down so he couldn't lead the GOP to another "landslide victory".

[Celerity]

10. I do not know why so many (here on DU, social media, telly, mags, blogs etc etc) keep bringing up the 25th Amendment, as

there is a sub zero chance BOTH the US House and the US Senate will vote by 2/3rds each to keep him removed.

Plus, of course, Trump's own shitbox shitshow of a cabinet is full of boot-lickers, cult members, mushroom milkers, and all-round sycophantic worms, so it is massively doubtful that soft-boy Vance could get enough of them to flip on 'grandpa the lard-ass, rapey gangster, con man, and extraordinarily stupid and mental wanker' in the first place.

Trump is their god emperor. Most in his cabinet worship him, literally, as do tens of millions of armed, violent, hateful, moronic, racist, sexist, greedy, small fry (but think they are big fry) MAGAts spread all over the nation (including far too large swathes of the US military, both active and retired/reserves).

[GenThePerservering]

3. I wouldn't assume a shellacking or anything else

that's what people were saying here before Trump's 'victory'. I said 'don't win-wash, keep working' and people here admonished me.

Uh huh.

[marble falls]

5. He did lose the popular vote to Harris by a million votes. No one got shellacked but we the people.

[stopdiggin]

6. Nope. The official numbers say differently (by a significant margin)

And those results are backed up by virtually all reputable observer/analysts and election officials.

Respectfully ... Not sure where you were getting your figures from - but you should take another look ? Because what you presented doesn't square with the truth on 2024 results.

https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024presgeresults.pdf

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[WarGamer]

7. ummm no.

T got 2.3m more than Harris

[Polybius]

8. Huh?

[Celerity]

9. Dump won the 2024 popular vote by around 2.3 million:

[Happy Hoosier]

17. Anything can happen, but...

There is both a shit-ton of history against him and a tidal wave of bad polls. Simply put, I expect a first-class ass-kicking. If it doesn't happen, we're fucked anyway, so...

[lastlib]

4. He'll stay.

He wants more power, and it's all that's keeping him and his family out of prison. And he's not finished wrecking America for Vladdy.

[Skittles]

11. CORRECT

perfectly stated

[Emile]

12. He will stay because he's on the biggest con job of his pathetic life.

[GoCubsGo]

13. The Presidency is keeping his fucking ass out of prison.

It's the whole damn reason he ran for a second term. Of course, he'll stay put. As long as he's in office, he's pretty much safe from any sort of prosecution.

Oh, and FUCK YOU John Robarts and you merry band of corrupt toadies for giving us this shit. May you all get what you deserve.

[jmowreader]

14. He's not "sticking around" for any damned arch

He's "sticking around" because he knows the second he leaves office the SEC will have his ass for market manipulation and insider trading, the IRS will come after him for tax evasion, his prosecutable ties to Jeffrey Epstein will be fully exposed, and about a kajillion heavily-armed MAGAts who bet their retirement savings on his cryptocurrency and lost it all will come looking for him.

By remaining president he shields himself from all that, which is why he's working so hard to try to figure out how to get a third term.

[Torchlight]

15. He'll double down and go full-on bunker mode

shortly after, triggering more pronounced neurological fits in public. And then blame Pres. Biden.

[EdmondDantes_]

16. He will stick around for the grift

The only reason I can see him willingly resigning is if he becomes so disabled he can't appear on TV, or if someone convinces him he can't self pardon. The latter is extremely unlikely at best since there's no way to prove a president can't self pardon until it gets tested.

So he'll stick it out to the bitter end unless he's literally drooling uncontrollably or similar.

Then because he's been grifting and stealing, he will pardon himself preemptively for anything and fight any efforts to bring him to justice until he shuffles off this mortal coil.