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I think he will, but there might be a real primary challenge.

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[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 139 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm leaning towards "no". His fragile ego will have taken two nasty blows in a row. Plus in four years he'll be even older and more fragile, and it's already pretty bad.

If I'm right, I'm sure he'll endorse some other maga-clown instead.

[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 64 points 3 months ago

Considering how many failed businesses he has under his name, I doubt failure is enough to hurt his ego. He'll just make something up so he can pretend he's still a success. Like how he claims he won the last election despite it being yet another failure to add to the pile.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Narcissists don't know how to recognize their own failures

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[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 32 points 3 months ago

Donny Jr hoping for daddy's approval.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 46 points 3 months ago

He might have his endorsement, but never his approval.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Jesus Christ, that’s brutal.

Like you’re stabbing a corpse at this point good sir.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 16 points 3 months ago

I don't think he'll endorse anyone except maybe for pay. And I don't think anyone will want his endorsement. Most of his endorsed primary candidates failed (as I recall, valid to double check that). It may not be a mark of death, but it doesn't look like it helps.

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 98 points 3 months ago

He will continue running until he wins or dies.

[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 months ago

In other words, until he dies.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately for us the worst people live the longest. Just look at henry kissinger

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[-] some_guy 68 points 3 months ago

I don’t expect his health to last that long. Cholesterol!

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 26 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately he has made a habit of doing unexpected things!

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[-] ValorieAF@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago

Hopefully he'll actually be in prison before then.

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[-] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago

No because in a video I just saw when he was speaking to a group of christians he said this is the election you need to vote in because when he is president there will be no more voting. He said this three times just to reinforce it.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago

Obviously just locker room talk. People are just taking his comments about ending democracy and becoming a dictator on day one out of context. He’s speaking metaphorically.

–“Centrists” still voting for Trump, probably

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[-] circuitfarmer 44 points 3 months ago

Tbh, I hope so. I think the chances of his winning decline with every cycle that is a loss. But, his ability to split a vote is retained to some extent. So:

  • if he runs as the GOP candidate again, he's more likely to lose. If the GOP is split about it, he's more likely to have a split vote due to another conservative candidate opting into the race on a third ticket (this may not happen, in which case, he's just less likely to win anyway due to previous losses, increased age, etc).

  • if he isn't the GOP candidate but still runs, he's extremely unlikely to win but could be a crazy vote split.

I think any sane person would not run again. Trump might, though.

[-] desentizised@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Thing is, the RNC is cleptocratically his now and will be for a while. Other than that I'd hope for similar things as most people are commenting here. It will be bonkers either way until he stops breathing and then some.

[-] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He'll be dead by then. His father lived to 95 or something but Trump proudly admits he doesn't exercise and he eats like shit. The best healthcare in the world can only keep a guy like that alive for so long before a lifetime of bad habits catch up to him.

Fun fact: Trump once claimed the human body is akin to a battery, and that exercising only decreases our lifespan. I wish I was joking.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 39 points 3 months ago

Running is necessary to collect donations so yes

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 38 points 3 months ago

That man has obviously never run in his life.

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[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 37 points 3 months ago

I'm far more concerned about the rise of Nazism and Monarchism in the USA. Even if we never have a Republican in any governing office again and the country continues to move further and further left, America has a lot of work to do to ensure these forms of tyrrany are never even considered as a viable alternative to Democracy.

The fact that these forms of governance survive in the hearts and minds of people is an indicator of a larger and more complex societal failing that spans the entire history of America. This is not some strange short term flash in the pan of Nazism and Authoritarianism, it is an insidious and vile tradition passed down from generation to generation, and we have only staunched it's slow cancerous growth by publicly shaming those who voice these views publicly. Obviously this has proven ineffective.

I think a more important question than whether one particularly sad excuse for a sad sack of shit may run for president again, is how do we make sure the Trump dynasty, and all dynasties, fade into obscurity until the last remnants of their legacy is a footnote that indicates we lived in a time period when humans, due to many generations of hoisting up those with the most lust for power into positions of power, nearly destroyed themselves. How do we make that happen?

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[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

He will absolutely run. But who wants to vote for a two time loser?

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[-] exanime@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Doubt it, his decline in the last 8 years have been incredible. If he were a family member we would have been looking for professional help a long time ago.

Can't imagine he'd be able to remain aware of his surroundings in 2 more years

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

I think if he loses in 24 and the republicans don’t learn their lesson, then they deserve to have him run again in 28.

Also, he’s very old. He would be 82 in 2028.

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[-] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

He eats too many hamburders to survive another four years.

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[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

The problem is not Trump. The problem is the people who vote for him

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 26 points 3 months ago

Even though I’d like him to drop off the face of the Earth, I kinda hope he does run. He’ll be even less coherent. His insane rambling will be worse. He’ll have to run as an independent, because Republicans won’t bet on a losing horse again - and he definitely would lose. It’ll be a major public humiliation, and he deserves as many of those as possible.

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[-] Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 months ago

Whether he runs again is not the right question. The council for national policy, an extreme right organization, is behind trumpism, supreme court justices trump nominated, and project 2025 which has been around since Reagan era but with different names. They will choose a different candidate as their wrecking ball who is younger and as fiery, unethical, without principles and an "outsider" as trump represent. Whether it's JD Vance or someone else.

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[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 21 points 3 months ago

He'll either be in jail, in a home for dementia treatment, or defaulted on the half billion in Russian loans and accidentally fell out of a window. So my answer is a solid, no.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Absolutely. The GOP is stuck with him until he dies...and his dad lived to be 93.

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[-] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 months ago

Either he'll run and keep ripping the Republican party to shreds, or he'll drop dead. Either way, it's a win.

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[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 20 points 3 months ago

I'd love for him to. He'd lose even harder, slowly going mad with jealousy and rage

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[-] Stern@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Presuming he is both alive and not in jail for the rest of his life by then, I could see him make a run of it. But those are both monumental ifs.

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[-] profdc9@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

I think with all the footage of Trump, and his shallow personality, an AI will be trained to impersonate him and we'll never be rid of him. I'm sure techbros are working on their animatronic Trump right now.

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[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

You think that thing, held together by duct tape and bobby pins, is living to 2028?

[-] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

I mean, it's quite possible he'll be dead by then

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

He’ll be in prison or dead.

[-] finley@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago

I’d be really surprised if he’s still alive

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[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

I don’t think so. Republicans are both spineless cowards and vicious bullies. When the Trump fever finally breaks from losing again as well as his legal troubles, expect the backlash to be swift and bloody.

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[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Between his unhealthy lifestyle and increasing cognitive decline I'm not sure he's going to be alive in 2028.

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[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago

Will he be alive? Lol

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

I don't see him running a lot already.

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[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

I think it's unlikely hell be alive in 2028. The problem is the people that support him now, will be. They'll try again and again to get the things they want passed. If it's not now, they're patient enough to wait. They won't stop unless they're forced by judicial action and these people are behind bars. It's not trump that's the biggest issue. It's the evil people behind him.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Yes.

His ability to make a career out of running for president is too lucrative to give up, sadly.

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

I hope so. He'll likely run against Harris again, and assuming she doesn't tank the economy I don't see how he manages a win.

The longer he clings to power, the longer the GOP go without legitimate representation that isn't MAGA grifters. Looking at right-wing populism elsewhere across the world, you'll see that when the figurehead loses power they often don't have a successor lined up - and those that do end up in the shadow of the person that won't stop clinging to the idea that they are the "chosen one".

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[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Trump will ALWAYS be able to Run! He's the FASTEST runner! Some people say he should be in the Olympics at running but he's too nice to let those Younger Folks have all the Glory. Trump could be DEAD and his Legs will STILL be kicking and trying to Run right out of his Grave! He's in the BEST shape of ANYONE probably in the Entire World!

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I don't see how he can live that long.

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