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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone else get the feeling this really is near the end for Trump?
He is FATALLY wounded.
His Tweeting of a train running over a CNN reporter after failing to condemn Nazis including a white supremacist who run over a crowd of people.
Talk of him pardoning a racist sheriff after failing to condemn Nazis and white supremacists.
The exodus of CEOs, including criticism from the CEO of the world's biggest private employer.
He can't help himself. He has no self-control. He listens to nobody. He is not a leader. He is infantile. He is demented. His approval is sinking fast. This is the worst week of his presidency. This story will run and run and more people are waking up to the fact that he has nothing to offer the people of America.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(56,897 posts)OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)the Republicans having the courage to dump him.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)And they need him to sign their agenda into law.
OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)Their stuff enacted, and then dump him, but every day hurts them a little more.
spooky3
(34,302 posts)Pence would be happy to sign. But Congressional Repubs have zero ethics or concern for the US, and they are too afraid to lose the base.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Excellent point.
volstork
(5,394 posts)of the KGOP congress is complicit and sullied by Russian ties/kompromat. They are terrified they will be exposed. This is their desperate attempt to hang on to power before they simply hang...
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)He lied to investigators about Flynn. Congressional Investigators know it.
spooky3
(34,302 posts)as well. But I don't know if he'll skate--maybe the investigators will focus almost exclusively on Trump.
"Mueller Time" can't come soon enough, and I hope it's not the disappointment that Fitzmas was.
And, technically, the line of succession continues with other Republicans, so taking Pence down will simply mean a delay, with regard to Solly's point about someone signing off on the Repub. agenda (another reason why the midterms are so important).
My point was just that they do NOT have to stick with Trump in order to get their agenda enacted. But they will continue to do so as long as they fear losing the base, being exposed as being entangled in all the Russian deals themselves, etc.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)So this is getting more interesting.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)It's more like the death of a thousand cuts. There is no one fatal wound.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)That is exactly how I feel about it.
I can't get my hopes up, until he is toes up.
And nature may take its good old time.....
Only the good die young.
Doodley
(8,976 posts)president. He understands nothing. That is what his Tweeting is telling us.
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)I think the end is going to be prolonged and agonizing. Mueller is actually only beginning in my opinion.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)until GOP members of Congress no longer fear repercussions from Trump's racist base, nothing is likely to happen.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)So no.
Books_Tea_Alone
(253 posts)How much damage will he inflict at the end? He is all about himself and protecting his dwindling fortune and evil spawn at all costs. I agree he is finished politically and will never recover but still 1 out of every 3 Americans still support him and most of them are probably armed.
Doodley
(8,976 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,319 posts)the only thing that will get him is an indictment for a criminal charge, IMO. He won't be impeached by Republicans.
The Cabinet will not invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment. He won't resign.
So what other option is there?
spooky3
(34,302 posts)Your second as a threat. You may want to reword in case Agent Mike is watching.
mnhtnbb
(31,319 posts)I thought about the wording and changed it. I'm not in the mood for a visit from Agent Mike.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He can inflict so much damage in such a short period of time, that the end for him may not be soon enough for us.
I think he's closer to losing it than he has ever been. Our best hope is that he will have a complete mental breakdown or a physical breakdown and need to leave office for health reasons. I don't know what it's going to take for the republicans to start turning on him, but he drags them down more and more every day.
Doodley
(8,976 posts)little understanding of any issues. He cannot control his outbursts. He has to be handled every step of the way and always have family members nearby because he knows so little and fears so much. He cannot function and has to have babysitters to watch over him, and the signs are that this is only getting worse.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)the corporations/big money likes the distraction-clown so he stays. as long as they profit, us peasants are just kinda fucked.
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)He would prefer to start a civil war or a nuclear war, rather than resign or face impeachment.
bluedigger
(17,077 posts)They seem to be incompatible.
Books_Tea_Alone
(253 posts)I will never ever, ever, sit out any election. No matter how small-down to school board elections.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)I do think that there are many roads that are converging towards some sort of a spectacular finale for Trump, but that might not be a good thing. We have multiple investigation yet to be concluded. Trump's tweets are increasingly unhinged causing him nothing but heartburn. Trump routinely bashes foreign leaders, both our opponents and allies alike, and that can't be ignored. Trump has threatened multiple countries with war and now nuclear annihilation, and that too, won't go unchallenged forever. Trump's lack of legislative accomplishments, the utter chaos of his entire administration and his failure to perform the most basic functions of government, will only get worse.
Something huge will break that will either take Trump down, or he will do something so outrageous that the country will struggle to right itself even as the incompetent GOP fumbles to explain it away. The question is which will happen first?
kentuck
(110,950 posts)Mueller is reportedly going to interview a few people in the West Wing, perhaps this week?
Who received those emails that were reported on in the Wash Post last night?
Somebody is going to sing.
longship
(40,416 posts)But that was many moons ago. In the interim I have disabused myself from being so optimistic.
We have a rather tough row to hoe, my good friends.
Keep digging in.
JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)And he will not go gently into that goodnight.
However, I agree with marylandblue - it's death by a thousand cuts.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Republicans are feeling the gloom of their disintegration, and must be thinking 25 45.
Link to tweet
David__77
(23,219 posts)Trump knows fascists support him and repeatedly signals his solidarity to them.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)The Occam's Razor explanation at this point, he's the secret leader of the whole damn klan.
David__77
(23,219 posts)Why would he quit?
I don't see the Senate or his VP and cabinet removing him. The Democratic Party hasn't even called for that.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)he's already gone far round the bend now.
He's blathering, going off-script, and breathing hard.
Johnny2X2X
(18,745 posts)We've been saying that for months and months. It just keeps getting worse, but the GOP still supports him.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)They won't impeach or demand his resignation. We keep saying this has to be the end every time he does something outrageous, and yet he still gets away with it.
theophilus
(3,750 posts)that, soon, we may come to the end of many millions of "us". This is an existential threat in the hands of this megalomaniac, imo.