What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Trump thinks announcing a run will protect him from indictment, legally he's incorrect, however he'll say (untruely) that he's being victimised and that Joe Biden has weaponised the DOJ

A lot can happen in two years and a lot can be forgotten about in the same time frame. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the GOP suddenly had a change of heart and started backing Trump again, if it meant another shot at the Presidency for them. The right wing press and media, too, have form in changing their tunes when it suits them. Into the bargain, the Democrats don't seem to have anyone at the forefront to offer at the moment. IIRC, Biden hasn't offered anything solid on running for a second term? Or have I misinterpreted that? In any case, Biden may have Trumped the orange gobshite once, but there's nothing to say that he'll be able to do it again.

In addition, given the absolute wretched state of US politics in the last few years I also wouldn't be surprised if Trump actually managed to get to the WH in 2024.

It’s a bizarre thing to announce as a policy agenda on the exact same night Artemis launched on its maiden test flight around the moon (unmanned drone flight).

Because, NASA isn’t going to Mars it’s going to the moon. Artemis and the Lunar Gateway is committed.

But if he and Elon want to go plant a flag on Mars together I say glory to both of them 👋

if they do it personally then even better

I'd wager something that substantiates the 'ladybug' rumour

Maybe Mel is planning on being First Lady Magaga

Facebook will not fact-check Trump anymore

Republican voters may be ready to move on from Trump, but are they ready to move from Trumpism? The nakedly crass attitudes, the paranoid mindset and desire for political street fights. The election denialism as well. The last one lost out in the midterms (mostly), but it was still a big thing in the Republican base, going by opinion polls. Unless the Republican is willing to leave that shiet behind, then America hasn't really turned a corner. It'll just be a case of trying to sneak it in with a prettier package, ie Desantis.

My MAGA seditionist racebaiting congressman who stood up to object to electors on January 6 has not mentioned Trump at all today.*

😂

*Instead he's leaning hard into the culture war against Psychologists advising on school policy, parents know better how to groom their own kids thanks very much, etc.

Rumor is him and John McCain were incredibly good friends.

So it's weird to see how he totally tucked tail when Trump kept denigrating him even as he went from deathbed to grave.

Whatever about his bedroom appetites, he's a spineless foghorning carnival barker. I'm not sure how much longer he can hold on to his seat in SC as more South Carolinians get hooked into broadband (Thanks Biden) and join the age of information. He's crossed the "RINO" line with so many people so many times here they say but then they went back to the poll in 2020 and voted him back in again. I live in league with incredibly insane and homely people around here.

Shades of this more local headline fron 2020