HelixDab2,

Trump appears to be suffering from a serious cognitive decline since he was last president. He was never the sharpest spoon in the drawer, but it’s bad now. If he’s still alive in five years, I don’t think he’ll be capable of doing anything other than drooling on himself.

cley_faye,

That sort of does not answer the question, seeing some US senators in the news that are barely pushed around.

dwalin,

I wonder if the stress of being in court every day is starting to take a toll.

HelixDab2,

Trump is old. Republicans have been stressing how old Biden is–and using his life-long speech impediment as evidence–but Trump trails Biden by only four years of age. They’re both at an age where you start seeing a sharp divergence in cognitive abilities, where some people take a nosedive into dementia and senility, while other people retain their mental faculties while their body fails. Trump seems to be the former.

lemmefixdat4u,

Lose? Nah. If he doesn’t win the election, we’ll get Insurrection 2.0. Then he’s either imprisoned, dead, or we get to live in a dictatorship.

Peppycito,

Even likes to think the problems will go away if Trump dies. He’s just the worm in the rotten apple. The apple is still rotten.

CH3DD4R_G0BL1N,
@CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works avatar

I think it’s less being blinded he’s just a symptom and more hope that he’s a one of a kind cult of personality that no one can replicate to unite the crazies again.

intensely_human,

🤣

fox2263,

Hopefully he’s died of a massive burger induced heart problem

intensely_human,

Hopefully that’s how I die too

Pyr_Pressure,

I wouldn’t be surprised if both Trump and Biden die of natural causes in September/October, throwing the November election into chaos as no one has anyone to vote for anymore.

It’s just the sort of chaos this timeline seems to crave.

wolfshadowheart,

It might be an okay outcome. No T means split R vote and no B means Kamala becomes first female president. Maybe she runs again, maybe there’s a new nominee.

I don’t think much changes other than losing the spearhead of the MAGA bullshit, although someone will inevitably take that place.

intensely_human,

lol what if he died on the last day of his term and we had a woman president for one day

fox2263,

Thankfully I don’t have that worry with Biden. He’s quite fit and healthy, in great shape considering his age. So he has far great chances of surviving each day.

Pyr_Pressure,

Being fit and healthy doesn’t really exclude much at that age, anything can happen.

My grandpa was fit as a fiddle at 86 outside gardening everyday, then got kidney cancer and a bunch of other stuff all at once, pretty much bedridden within a year.

1984,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Is it a requirement these days to be a super old white man to be president of the united states?

bhamlin,

Well, there’s a minimum age requirement. Any one running for that office will need to meet that. And it’s kinda “old.”

owenfromcanada,
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar
intensely_human,

Yes. Obama represented the end of an era. We are now in the phase of US history when it’s only old white men who are president.

angstylittlecatboy,

He’ll be dead.

ZagamTheVile,

I really hope so but the absolute shit show when he does is going to be insane. The conspiracy theories will be like nothing ever imagined. It’s going to be nuts. I’d look forward to it but I could see it getting violent.

conditional_soup,

No, trust me, bro, Trump isn’t dead, he just had to go undercover, like Nick Fury

neidu2, (edited )

Yeah, I’ve been tempted to make an AskLemmy post based on that premise - “If trump dies on the campaign trail of presumably natural causes, what will the aftermath be like” conspiracy shitshow revolving around “Assassinated by the deep state” and/or “Biden directed CIA/FBI/SPLC/CCP/Pelosi to do it” is definitely going to emerge.

fubo,

It was the illegal immigrant trans furry Marxists, in the classified documents bathroom, with a hamberder full of vaccines!

SatanicNotMessianic,

Trump is now the Republican Party. He defines it and has virtually no opposition. Even the primary candidates mostly ran on the idea that Trump should win.

However, he also has no successor. When he dies, there’s going to be a scramble to figure out who can be the Trumpyest. There’s not going to be an orderly handover of power. I think it’s going to fracture their voter base between traditional conservatives, who will back someone like Ted Cruz, and the batshit crazy ones, who will back a Don Jr type.

Trump, for want of a better term, has the charisma that the entire party is hanging off of right now. Republicans have handed the fate of their party over to this man, because they have no real policies to sell to voters, and Trump voters don’t care about policy. Once he’s gone, there’s no one waiting in the wings to take over.

There’sno similar phenomenon on the Democratic side. There’s a handful of candidates from 2020 that I could see running again, including Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg, as well as newer candidates like Newsom. There might be an attempt to make Harris the heir apparent, but there’s no ride or die candidate the way the gop is with Trump.

JusticeForPorygon, (edited )
@JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

I’d love to see Ted Cruz and Ron DeSantis duke it out.

DeSantis actually scares me, he doesn’t give me the deranged lunatic vibes other Republicans have. He gives me the vibes of someone who wants power, and knows how to manipulate the people around him to get it. When I found out he was running for president I was actually a little scared because I thought he had a shot. I’m glad I was wrong in that respect. Let’s keep it that way, and avoid someone like that taking an elected seat.

TL;DR DeSantis gives me Hitler vibes.

Nollij,

You really wouldn’t. That’s how we got into this mess in the first place

JusticeForPorygon,
@JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

I’d love to see it, in the present moment. Two racists arguing over who’s the most fascist. I definitely wouldn’t like the outcome.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

Dude thought he could take Disney in a legal battle. He’s just a coked up moron.

mnemonicmonkeys, (edited )

He’s just a coked up moron.

Tbf, so was Hitler. Especially the last couple of years

PRUSSIA_x86,

He made a bet that he could win and instead he lost. He’s not a moron, he’s just too eager and played his hand early. Never underestimate a fascist.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

No, he’s just a coked up idiot. At first it looked like he might be a concern, but he’s no more competent than Trump.

robolemmy,
@robolemmy@lemmy.world avatar

if he wins in 2024, he’ll run in 2028, and 2032, etc. He’ll win those with 99% of the vote, just like his buddy Putin.

dingus,

Well, thankfully I feel like he’s statistically unlikely to all that much longer.

Coreidan,

Ya that’s not how it work but thanks for your fiction story

morphballganon,

He won’t run. He’ll waddle.

cabron_offsets,

He’ll be dead by 2028. Hopefully in a supermax and suffering up until his last moment.

vermyndax,

Or in jail

Coreidan,

Prison. Not jail.

zipzoopaboop,

Don’t get my hopes up

milicent_bystandr,

Trump is cursed to live until he Makes America Great Again. He will run election after election, with unnatural longevity, but once he gets back in office he only has one term left to find the error of his ways, discover Wisdom in Friendship, and bring moral-philosophy-flavour-of-the-month to the troubled but inherently glorious institution of American politics, or the curse will be fulfilled and he will spend eternity haunting golf clubs and expensive hotels not quite dead but never quite alive.

Tune in later to part II, where, in a world taken over by the all-powerful EU, Donald’s seventh descendent learns of the calamity of his forefather and sets out to rediscover the truth about America and set her people free from the tyranny of socialised healthcare. Coming soon: “The Seventh Trump”


Followed shortly after with direct-to-TV prequels “Seals and Fur Hats: the Decline of True America”; and sequels, “Bowling with the Ghosts of Presidents Past, Present and Future.”

swordsmanluke,

… That’s honestly a pretty good plot hook

kandoh,

He will keep the campaign going for as long as he lives to keep reaping in the donations.

vanontom,
@vanontom@lemmy.world avatar

And then his “friends” and family will continue the tradition. The grift must go on! Until the cult dies or finds a better daddy.

Burninator05,

Exactly this. The man hasn’t stopped campaigning since he rode down that escalator in 2016. A month after his inauguration in 2017 he kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign so the donations could keep coming.

Joker,

I hope he will be running from a psycho with a shank at ADX Florence in 2028. There’s a decent chance he will be dead in 2028 though. He’s not exactly the picture of fitness and good health. He’s an old, fat pig who lives on junk food.

More seriously, he has zero chance in 2028 if he loses in 2024, which is almost certainly what will happen. He’s been decisively rejected by voters once already. I find it hard to believe he has won over any new voters with his behavior since the last election.

Or maybe the government will step up and treat him like the terrorist that he is. If it was anyone else, they’d be waterboarding him with Diet Coke at Guantanamo right now. I mean, he’s openly calling for states to send the National Guard to Texas to fight the federal government. This fucker is on trial for insurrection and he’s out trying to incite another insurrection. Holy shit.

He’s had his deranged followers make threats against judges, prosecutors, federal agents, etc. He’s threatened his opponent in the primaries with a federal investigation if she doesn’t drop out of the race. He’s threatened her donors.

This dude is straight up nuts. I think it’s a legitimate question whether he’s eventually detained for the safety of the public pending his trials. At what point do the feds have an obligation to protect the country from this lunatic?

Forget about him and 2028. He might not even make it through 2024.

Heir_Of_Isildur,

Weeds don’t die. I wouldn’t be surprised if the fat fuck chokes on a burger tomorrow… But i also wouldn’t be surprised if he lives another 20 years

Crewman,

Yeah, shitty thing about death is it kind of just does what it wants.

shinigamiookamiryuu,

Since when has a politician known when to quit?

someguy3,

George Washington?

shinigamiookamiryuu,

He did serve for two terms. Back then, that was the most someone could do. The idea he could’ve been a monarch if he wished isn’t exactly accurate given the combination of public pressure, the way other founding fathers weighed in, and the fact that America’s then-neighboring allies the Haudenosaunee civilization was already a democracy superior to even the ancient Greeks.

kandoh,

Adams was his puppet, he was a shadow leader until he bleed to death in a dark ritual to extend his life gone wrong

badbytes,

His supporters will cryogenically preserve his body so he can keep perpetually lose every 4years.

kandoh,

Warhammer reference

ediculous,

In response to most of the people in this thread:

Idk, y’all. The biggest assholes never die. They stay alive out of sheer spite.

Mycatiskai,

How long did Kissinger stay alive. That monster was responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths all around the world.

tal, (edited )
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Not really, but I don’t think it much matters.

If Trump hit upon a political strategy that is effective, then someone else will presumably use it, absent a change in the political environment.

tastysnacks,

Trump is a little unique billy goat here. There won’t be another Trump. it’ll be different next time

Toes,

Only he knows for sure, but I suspect for an older man like himself. He might just wanna retire.

FenrirIII,

He’ll never retire unless it’s in prison

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