Next US president

[paulguitar]

Francis85 said:

Trump will win again in 2020.

Haters gonna hate but, apart from young girls crying on Twitter and fake news doing their job, there is nothing that he has done worse than others before.

Just what in the hell are 'young girls crying on twitter'? Unless you mean trump?


No need for 'fake news' either. Anyone paying even a teeny bit of attention to the stuff trump says and does can see there is a serious cause for concern. He's 'unspeakable', to quote Hugh Laurie.


At the very least, perhaps the wise thing for us all to do is to hold off until Mueller has completed his investigation. I suspect there are going to be some rather shocked folks out there if they think trump has done 'no worse than any others'.

Edited by paulguitar on Wednesday 14th November 05:51

[RobDickinson]

Shows the mental level of the Trump supporter they can't understand what 'next' means.

[Hayek]

travel is dangerous said:

Trump will be gone in a year

2 weeks till the year is up.

[hidetheelephants]

Oilchange said:

bks. if you turned off the tv and unplugged the internet you wouldn't know the difference between him and half the previous incumbents.

And to judge a President (or any leader) before he has fulfilled electoral promises, or not, is nuts.

Built a wall? Nope.
Locked up Killary? Nope.
Abolished Obamacare? Nope.
Started a trade war? Yep.
Massive tax cuts for the rich and corporate america generally, at the expense of Joe Sixpack? Yep.

Not really electoral promises, but what the hell;
Made a huge fuss out of meeting a two bit dictator of a nuclear-armed but otherwise impoverished sthole, but actually achieved nothing? Yep.
Had the brassneck to claim he was actually protecting Obamacare in the run-up to the midterms, even though he wasn't? Yep.

[Byker28i]

Hayek said:

travel is dangerous said:

Trump will be gone in a year

2 weeks till the year is up.

Cohen is in town with attorneys, Court sessions being held, Muellers prosecution team working on a public holiday getting it all ready...
More indictments coming? Working up the chain towards family trump?

[Aphex]

Uh oh, they've escaped from their trump thread into another good luck everyone

[Byker28i]

Aphex said:

Uh oh, they've escaped from their trump thread into another good luck everyone

Discussing the next president, means discussing the issues the current one has and whether he'll run in 2020 or be severely damaged by forthcoming revelations - surely.

All the big trends are working against Trump and the GOP. The midterms are looking disastrous, the next two years will mean Trump and the GOP will face two years of public investigations, from Mueller, the state of New York and the House, then there's the possible financial crash if the deficit etc keeps rising and trumps trade wars hurt further. That could come right at the wrong time for the next election.

So if that happens - who would the GOP put up against trump?

[Byker28i]

In fact, does trump do what he's done before several times and walk away. Will he risk everything for his ego, his family jailed, asset seizure?

It could well be that Pence is the next president, before 2020?

[captain_cynic]

Byker28i said:

In fact, does trump do what he's done before several times and walk away. Will he risk everything for his ego, his family jailed, asset seizure?

It could well be that Pence is the next president, before 2020?

As much as I dislike Trump, I don't think he'll be removed from office, even if impeached. No sitting US president has been removed from office and it sets a dangerous precedent that no-one even thinking of holding the top office wants.

Barring a really bad event (constitutional crisis level) Trump will limp to 2020 and be replaced by Democrat, John Delaney. Pretty much all the Democrats need to do is present a candidate that is inoffensive and Delaney fits that bill.

After that, when Trump isn't in office any more, then Trump needs to worry.

[hidetheelephants]

Are there any GoP types sticking their heads over the parapet? Paul Ryan denies it but is running what look a lot like "I'm so presidential" adverts, so that's at least one credible alternative to Agent Orange.

[BlackLabel]

America's first native American President?

"Elizabeth Warren announces 2020 run against Trump: 'I'm in this fight'
Massachusetts senator releases video to announce widely expected run as Trump says he would ‘love to run against her’"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/31/el...

Meanwhile at the other end of the age spectrum the young democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems to have got the American left excited - too young to run in 2020 though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Co...

[ajprice]

BlackLabel said:

- too young to run in 2020 though.

What is the minimum age? Trump is 70+ so there isn't an upper limit.

[Halb]

Warren is INdian like Iron-Eyes Cody was INdian.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/10/16/clai...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/15/w...

[RobDickinson]

ajprice said:

What is the minimum age? Trump is 70+ so there isn't an upper limit.

Afik it's 32 years old

[BlackLabel]

The minimum age is 35. Shame they don’t have a minimum iq requirement as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_pres...

Edited by BlackLabel on Friday 4th January 21:43

[Russian Troll Bot]

BlackLabel said:

The minimum age is 35. Shame they don’t have a minimum iq requirement as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_pres...

Edited by BlackLabel on Friday 4th January 21:43

With some of the things she's said, I don't know if she'd pass that either

[p1stonhead]

Russian Troll Bot said:

BlackLabel said:

The minimum age is 35. Shame they don’t have a minimum iq requirement as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_pres...

Edited by BlackLabel on Friday 4th January 21:43

With some of the things she's said, I don't know if she'd pass that either

She’s Einstein compared to Trump.

[Russian Troll Bot]

p1stonhead said:

Russian Troll Bot said:

BlackLabel said:

The minimum age is 35. Shame they don’t have a minimum iq requirement as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_pres...

Edited by BlackLabel on Friday 4th January 21:43

With some of the things she's said, I don't know if she'd pass that either

She’s Einstein compared to Trump.

Although such tests are ultimately meaningless as intelligence comes in many forms, I could actually imagine Trump scoring quite highly in a regular test.

[p1stonhead]

Russian Troll Bot said:

p1stonhead said:

Russian Troll Bot said:

BlackLabel said:

The minimum age is 35. Shame they don’t have a minimum iq requirement as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_pres...

Edited by BlackLabel on Friday 4th January 21:43

With some of the things she's said, I don't know if she'd pass that either

She’s Einstein compared to Trump.

Although such tests are ultimately meaningless as intelligence comes in many forms, I could actually imagine Trump scoring quite highly in a regular test.

What on earth would bring you to that conclusion? Seriously. Everything he has ever said has pointed me to him being an abctual moron who can’t think ahead more than 5 seconds. Having lots of advisors for things is how he has survived this long without walking off a cliff IMO.

[BlackLabel]

I think the odds of Mike Pence being the next POTUS have have shortened a fair bit today.

Edited by BlackLabel on Friday 18th January 15:03