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Well he definitely said that in 2020, and if someone had had the foresight to ask him in 2016 he probably would have said it then as well, so I’m going to go ahead and be a little skeptical here.
Shh don't interrupt him when he's accidentally campaigning for harris here
"If I lose, I won't run again!" - 34 Time Convicted Felon Donald J Trump
Left voting intensifies
Well, yes. Trump Lies. We all know that. One can only hope that his ongoing mental breakdown will be clearly visible by them even to the hardcore fans of him.
hope that his ongoing mental breakdown will be clearly visible by them
it doesn't matter what's "visible" when your entire reality is fabricated by trump, fox news, and your safe space private far-right facebook group
Honestly this election is clearly taking a toll on him, and in four more years that unhealthy lifestyle might have caught up with him
He also said he wouldn’t run again if he lost to Biden 4 years ago. Why does anyone believe a single word that comes out of his shithole of a mouth?
I'm just surprised that he admitted to possibly losing
Last time he said he'd leave the country and we'd never hear from him again if he lost.
Yet here we are.
I thought the election is “stolen” if he should lose.
He didn't really though. The headline makes it sound like Trump said "I won't run again if I lose." But that's not the case. The exchange was actually:
Interviewer: If you're not successful this time, do you see yourself running again in four years?
Trump: No I don't. I think that will be... uhh... that will be it. I don't see that at all. Hopefully we're going to be successful.
Hopefully he won't be alive by then.
Otherwise, I'd trust him keeping his word on this as much as I'd trust him in general: not at all
Come on, name one time he's ever lied before. You can't even name two. There's not even a dozen times. Certainly it's less than a hundred? A thousand?
ETA: Wikipedia says it's nearly 31000 just while he was president, if you count false or misleading, still more than 5000/2.5 yr if you only count outright falsehoods.
You can't name just one time he lied because if you refer to any specific statement he's made, it contains at least two lies.
It'll be difficult to run for president inside a cell.
Difficult but not illegal or impossible.
And that's assuming that he'll ever see consequences anywhere near that magnitude for his many crimes. Which is unlikely.
I'm sure a decent amount of people would still vote for him despite him being in jail. If there's box for him on the ballot, they'd probably even vote him after he died.
He also said he’d “disappear” if he lost the 2020 election. At this rate the only way we will stop hearing about him is when he dies, and yet Im sure once we are rid of his existence, the deranged cultists will continue to believe he still stalks the earthly realm.
He'll be dead, hopefully
From indisputably natural causes. I would love for the martyrdom and conspiracy theories to be optimally minimized. Cultists do scary shit to the general population, and I'd rather that they just get bored and move on to the next grift to be victimized by since they're clearly not interested in not being targeted rubes. The persecution complex is an inherent chunk of their entire identity.
I want him to cark it on stage from something like getting struck by lightning.
I also wonder if the secret service would notice if I snuck some giant tesla coils onto his rally stage. maybe a big red button on the podium that flips them back on?
That button should be on his lectern and it should say TRUMP so he’ll do the honors himself.
"Do Not Push"
for plausible deniability.
The most poetic death for trump would be to suffer a stroke at one of his rallies. The stroke hits and he begins to mix up words and blather nonsense. He can sense something is wrong but his bigly words are not working, he tries to tell his faithful what’s happening.
The meschia and windmilths are shooo shlaaaaad
He slurs out, those weren’t the words he wanted, but with neurons misfiring the most used pathways are trying to help. He spends minutes, all recorded for history, dying in front of his bored onlookers unable to ask for help. His years of word salad and lies have finally achieved an awful goal, no one can tell his brain is broken. For this boy that cried wolf a million times, finally the fangs of an enemy he can’t bully or bribe have sunk in deep, years of kfc fried chicken grease now blocking bloodflow to his brain.
It’s only been a few minutes, the crowd awaits some applause or laugh line, but for trump the time feels like an eternity. The pain is increasing, the fear all consuming, he collapses and dies there.
A fitting end to the man whose greatest fear was that people would realize his weird incoherent ramblings were a con.
From indisputably natural causes. I would love for the martyrdom and conspiracy theories to be optimally minimized
Unfortunately, the most likely one is a heart attack caused by his 8 decades of unhealthy living finally catching up with him and since there's TONS of things that can cause a heart attack, the cult would DEFINITELY declare foul play.
Also, if anything that can't be induced kills him, they're just gonna figuratively stick their fingers in their ears and make up another cause of death that fits their narrative of him being a martyr murdered by the Deep State because he was a threat. Heads they believe it's murder, tails they don't believe it isn't murder.
What would be ideal would be for him to suffer a debilitating stroke or something else that leaves him so enfeebled that even the cult can't pretend that he's almighty. Preferably some time before the election.
Not something I'd wish on basically anyone else, but that monster has shed any pretense of human compassion and self-awareness decades ago, so fuck him with a rusty rail spike.
Or in prison.
Honestly I think that if he lost the election, and was incarcerated even under home arrest with no access to his fans, he would more or less immediately become irrelevant, and he would grow frail very quickly.
Imagine how miserable that would be for him. His own personal hell.
He said that about 2024 in 2020, but here he is. Did he forget because of dementia or is he just a liar?
It is an abuser tactic, silent treatment or withholding affection if he doesn't get what he wants. I guess that might work on his cult even if it has the opposite effect on people with multiple brain cells.
If he is alive in 2028 he will run again. Hopefully he is in prison by then.
Considering his mental decline in the last four years, in 2028, he will only be able to get on a stage and shit himself. And people will still vote for him.
Considering his mental decline in the last four years, in ~~2028~~ 2024, he will only be able to get on a stage and shit himself. And people will still vote for him.
FTFY
He can do that today, and it would be the most pleasant thing to ever come out of him on stage.
I hope he dies in prison.
I just hope he goes to prison. We better not get any of this "heal the country" shit. You know what will heal the country? Having people who break the look law go to jail.
Three u.s establishment would never allow a former president to go to prison. It's never going to happen. All we can hope for is death by big Mac by the time he's 80
Trump says a lot of things.
So he's signaling his potential supporters "it's now or never"... again.
The words coming out of his mouth aren’t even worth the paper they’re printed on
What's interesting to me is that he seemed to acknowledge the possibility of failing at all. And that he didn't organize the answer around "if the election is stolen" or something. This is unlike him.
This answer was almost human.
He'd be 82, and the implication is that the country would have just had 4 years of a relatively young, female President.
He doesn't sound like a viable candidate at all in that scenario. (Not that he's a viable candidate now and they still ran him, so I guess all bets are off anyway)
Speaking of... The guy who hired the truck with 'LOSER' emblazoned on its side to patrol the white house in 2019, how do I get in on that action this time round, say, in Florida?
I'd much rather chip in to get a billboard that says "Ha Hah!" That's visible from his prison cell.
This is the same guy who he insists he won in 2020 and is supposed to be sitting president now. By his logic, he's running for a third term.
He's also said that he will become a dictator on day one if he's elected this year. Why would he run in 2028 if he abolishes elections or makes a loophole to stay in the White House?
That's what he said last time. Only two things will actually stop him: the death of the Republican Party or his own
Let's leave that up to the states.
If he weren't lying I'd be ecstatic right now. Although the laws of human mortality may prove him a truth teller for once in his life.
He's good. Just collecting enough money 😄💰 for the various playoffs he needs to do and for his one way ticket to the caiman islands.