Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

Yes it seems very much in the balance now. A lot to play for .I don't think he can prevail if the SC holds its ground - or if there a mass demonstrations/uprisings that don't degenerate into an excuse for martial law. (even then ,I don't think they can win-I don't think America ,for all its faults can go the way of China, Russia or N Korea.)

all he has to do is come up with a heap of shite term like ‘special military operation’ like the other ‘mad degenerate/abomination of a human’ whose putrid whole trump is crawling up

MAGA will certainly make hay whilst the sun is shining - Democrats are in complete disarray -half appear to be “angry” and the other half have their heads buried in the sand - there’s certainly every chance of America becoming an authoritarian state - only a fool an idiot or a lying MAGA supporter would dare dispute that

“Recent polling reflects the grim state of affairs. Just 40% of Democrats approved of the way their leaders in Congress were handling the job, compared with 49% who disapproved, according to a Quinnipiac University poll last month.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/mar/30/democrats-trump-politics

And the people saying US should grab Greenland

Nobody serious is saying that the US should grab Greenland.

Thats precisely it. The US economy was doing well under Biden, to make things better, Trump had to do precisely nothing. In the Liz Truss situation everyone around her realised the economic decisions she had made were madness and she got her P45. There is no such mechanism for anything like that in the US, so everyone just has to live with those decisions.

On what basis?

He didn't have any legal authority, and Congress would've overridden him. The Dems had a majority in the house.

That's not to say Trump won't succeed in the future, I think the conditions are far more favourable for him now and will be even more so in a couple of years. But I don't think Pence was the deal breaker on Jan 6th.

Trump will be 82 years of age by the time of the next election.

The odds are not insignificant that he won't complete his second term after the mid terms because he will be a total lame duck at that point which doesn't strike me as a situation given his character in which he'd be happy to spend a long two years.

I think he is just trolling the media on a third term. The amount of effort he'd need to endure to change the constitution (which is extremely unlikely anyway) I just can't see him trying it.

Age does matter. Age and stress matters more.

In the end I think he'll go out in a whimper and resign before the end of his term.

Disagree- with all the disruption he’s doing, it obviously will have major impacts on world markets - mainly negative- and his domestic economy will suffer - he’ll want to sing about his “legacy” - so he’ll need time to start rebuilding whatever he’s currently destroying -there’s also the project 2025 plan - this is bigger than Trump and I don’t think we’ve seen the half of that yet - MAGA will want to see their future secured knowing Trump is bowing out so that will take precedence - Trump will phone it in from the golf course but MAGA will keep the mad show on the road

Absolutely correct, what do some people think? That the project 2025 people will have a crack for 2 years then allow the masses to vote them out before they've had a chance to implement their changes after the carnage, not a chance thats going to happen, might be 10-15 years before this ends...

This evil bunch of fcuks are the main drivers behind 2025. One of the main protagonists is a member of the Coors family of Coors brewing fame.