Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

No. The system as is prevents 3rd parties. If one splits, the 3 will amalgamate into 2 along some lines again pretty soon. If one dies the other will split in two along its fault lines. I think the Republicans getting beaten across the board would be great. It would cause a much needed split in the democrats and bring the US politics more in line with a lot of the rest of the world.

Where is Donald?

He hasn't been seen in a while. He's not out campaigning. People are wondering if he's okay. Doing a phone in with a friendly news station doesn't ease people's concern.

I suspect he's got dementia. I've a second cousin twice removed who had it, and it's definitely that. No other explanation for it. I mean, where's the medical records saying it's *not* dementia?

It's sad. I think it's Melania pulling the strings. He's 77. He should retire. To force him to keep going is elder abuse.

(Am i doing it okay?)

If you used 'handlers' you could got a bingo

You have to wonder how much of an effect the attempted assassination had on his ego and psyche, to have to accept that some-one from your own[ed] party doesn't like you as much as you prefer, was out THERE and that he died in the attempt to shoot you in the head from a distance, giving him a whole new understanding of "sniping at you".

One strong rattling of the cage followed by the news that the other party switched from your preferred candidate to some-one more favourable to a larger part of the audience reminding him that politics is a dirty game, that the hotel industry is much less risky as a a family business where you can do as you want without persecution from all angles. I don't see him sitting up and watching Clint in "In The Line Of Fire" any time soon.

I honestly thought that the assasination attempt would hand him the election. I just thought "You stupid kid, you went and made things worse. You made him a living martyr". But no…the opposite happened. Joe quit the race after that and the Dems found new energy.

Donnie went and took all the good will he earned after the shooting and pissed it all way in barely a couple of weeks. Yea it happened…but no one cares. I'm not even sure if the MAGAs really care any more either. That's just amazing. Yet again Donnie subvents an expection of Presidential politics, and this time it's not in his favor.

Have to agree, seems the wind has gone out of the MAGA/Trump sails, a weak/unknown VP, and he's looking more like an increasingly unhinged angry looking septuagenarian.

It's all about timing. If that was the 'October Surprise', even against Kamala he could have walked the election. But happening when it did, and then Biden dropping out and being replaced by Kamala…. as awful as it was that an attempt on his life was made it also ended up not being serious enough that it wasn't very quickly eclipsed by Biden dropping out.

Then you factor in the dud of a VP pick in Vance, and increased focus on Project 2025, his shambolic appearance at the NABJ, and now how they're being called "weird" which is incredibly emasculating and reductive against Trump compared to his fist in the air bloody faced flag behind photo from the assassination attempt…. the idea of Trump himself as a powerful figure surviving an assassination attempt has been completely shrunk.

I think, what's really eating away at Donald Trump, what really is making him spiral, based on his rants and weird wishcasting that Biden get back in the race, is that he wanted a bonafide rematch with Joe Biden, and now he's never gonna get the chance.

And now he's going to be beat by a woman.

This is how much MAGA fear Harris being on the ticket for President...

Old and weak

https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in-trump-has-apparently-changed-his-mind-on-fox-news-debate-ultimatum-per-washington-posts-josh-dawsey/

He has called a "General News Conference" for 2pm Mara Lago time…..