How do you think Trump will react after the election if he loses?

[Poiuyt]

For the life of me, I can't imagine him giving a gracious concession speech to a Democrat. If the election is at all close, he'll certainly contest it and ask for recount after recount. On the other hand, I doubt if he'd try to usurp the presidency if he lost by a lot.

What do you think trump will do or say on November 4, 2020?

[C_U_L8R]

1. If his polling keeps dropping

He may not make it to the election. In any case, it will be graceless, self-pitying and without humility.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

40. My first thought was how I've been wondering why

Scaramucci keeps mentioning that trump will be out in March ? We should have a nominee by then and head to head polls? Court actions may conclude? Or is he just pulling March out of his ass?

[PJMcK]

47. Scaramucci is an ass

It's hard to take him seriously. Accordingly, I don't have any respect for his opinions.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

62. True...but he still keeps mentioning March which is curious

[Zambero]

2. The lamestream fake news media threw the election to a radical Democrat

otherwise he would have won easily by a tremendous landslide!

[treestar]

61. +1

He will then claim this to the end of his days.

[sandensea]

3. Mangolini will probably try to invoke Continuity of Gummint powers

Upon which he'll be unceremoniously dragged, kicking and screaming, from the White House.

[Cicada]

4. He will face jail. Exile in Moscow?

The last person Manafort helped become national leader, in Ukraine, fled to Moscow. Trump faces prosecution for obstruction of justice, with a Washington DC jury.

[emmaverybo]

5. Rigged! He will insist he won. He will launch a thousand investigations. He will threaten to unleash

his bikers, his military, his law enforcement, and his Maggots (autocorrect) on his enemies. He will
tweet many commands and insults.

[Hekate]

6. Our election systems are not secured, thanks to Mitch McConnell & the GOP...

Therefore I believe a massive GOTV effort is needed on our part -- and the results will still appear to be "close."

Trump has not a drop of graciousness in him. His own father raised him to believe there are only two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers, and that it does not matter how brutally you win. If he has not been impeached and removed, I now fear he will not go quietly, but will try to cause violence among his faithful cultists.

[Dan]

7. He will not attend the ceremony for the turning over the presidency....

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Let's just wait and see. I really have no idea what he'll do, but...

I see a need for strait jackets as available as fire extinguishers.

[Shrike47]

9. One thing he won't be is gracious. He is not capable of it.

[3catwoman3]

63. No, he is not. The only person he...

...consistently expresses admiration for is Ivanka.

[912gdm]

10. big boom.

his lame duck time between November to January will be the most dangerous period this country as ever seen.

[Cosmocat]

15. This

nm

[Siwsan]

28. My exact fear

We will see a full blown unleashed, angry, spiteful narcissist, at his worse.

[intrepidity]

11. With a stroke, if we're lucky

I don't want him dead, just incapacitated and suffering mightily. Fingers crossed.

[PJMcK]

48. Dead would be okay (n/t)

[Newest Reality]

59. I would put both

on the list of running odds, for sure.

My spider sense tells me he is rather close to a stroke or cardiac arrest.

More hamberders! Maybe he will get really worked up enough.

[Kablooie]

12. He'll probably blame Russian interference and demand a new election.

[VOX]

13. He will rage at the entire country for refusing to appreciate his "stable genius."

Which causes me the most worry. When the end is finally in sight, failed despots tend to lash out with rage at the very country and citizens he previously manipulated.

An extreme example: Germany in April 1945, where an entire country was punished with further death and destruction for “failing” to win victories (against crushing superior forces) for its “savior.”

What is a neutered Trump capable of?

[sakabatou]

14. With screaming and whining

[Cosmocat]

16. I have been telling people since the night if the election

Getting him out of the Oval Office is going to resemble the final scene in Scarface. He is not going willingly.

[MFM008]

18. He doesnt have to

Go willingly.
He will be made to go.
Dragged out hopefully on the orders
Of the legitimate next president.
Anyone who trys to interfere
Can go with him.

[IdealsAndReal42]

17. He will refuse to concede

And will send selflessly the whole country into political crisis.

[Siwsan]

29. It's my understanding that a concession is a mere courtesy and not a requirement

Personally, I'd love to see him tazed, dazed, and dragged out of the White House.

[TheRealNorth]

49. But you have to consider

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What happens in Republican-controlled states that might go blue. If he cries "stolen election", and the base goes along with it, they could try to change the rules on how the state chooses it's electors and, and then choose Trump-supporting electors instead.

All of this could technically be legal, unless It goes against a rule in the state's constitution or other state laws (they could always try to the change the law though).

Having seen what Republican legislatures have done in North Carolina and Wisconsin, I have no doubt that they would try something like that if there are not any existing laws prohibiting them.

[Siwsan]

50. Your post is making me want to go back to bed!!!

I do have a BIG fear of how his cult will lash out, over his defeat. Massively big fear.

[Thekaspervote]

53. You're right! The end of his illegal term is over on 1/21/2021 at noon. He cannot change that

As far as drumming up his base, they may make a lot of noise and I suppose their will be a few that will act individually, but as far as organized and on the streets... their too lazy

[Siwsan]

56. My plan would be to set up strategically placed 'Free Beer' and 'Free Doughnuts' stands

I figure that would create a great distraction. Of course the beer would be 'near beer' but I'd give them the full of sugar and fat doughnuts, to make up for that.

[dawg day]

58. Once he loses, the GOP will pretend he never existed.

That's what they did after Nixon. Only Trump's raging base cultists will stick with him, and they will probably turn against the GOP as traitors.

[TheBlackAdder]

19. No matter what we think he'll do, or how extreme, he'll surprise us with some Nth Level Shit!

[cwydro]

20. I'm not going to count any chickens just yet.

We didn’t think he’d win before.

I’m absolutely terrified he could be re-elected, so I’m not going to jinx it by guessing what he’d do in a loss.

[rampartc]

27. that is the right answer

he must be beaten decisively enough to make him sulk back to trump tower to plan his next campaign.

[LeftinOH]

21. Complete meltdown. Twitter rampages; won't concede;

promotion of the most absurd conspiracy theories never previously imagined; cabinet members resign one by one during the month of December; still won't concede; abandons the White House in the first week of January; refuses to attend inauguration.

Ends as it began: A complete disgrace. *we can only hope*

[edhopper]

22. If the GOP keeps the Senate

he will claim the election is rigged and the will go along.
He will stay in the WH.

[Bettie]

23. He will declare that he will stay in office until

he finds out what has happened.

Then, there will be court case after court case, challenging every single state election, until he manages to get it to the Supreme Court, which is as likely as not to declare him the winner as it did W.

At very least, a new president won't be seated by the end of January because he'll still be challenging it.

I have zero doubt of this.

[DFW]

24. Knowing him.......

He will deny that he ever was really running for a second term in the first place.

"Aw, come on. It was a joke. I accomplished everything I wanted to in my first term. Why would I need a second one?"

(as the earth breathes a sigh of relief)

[spanone]

25. I don't care, just want his ass gone.

[UniteFightBack]

26. He gave away his plan long ago. He'll say it was rigged. nt

[el_bryanto]

30. I could see it going a lot of different ways

His ego may not allow him to conceptualize losing.

Bryant

[Rollo]

31. Non-stop continuous rage tweeting until massive cardiac infarction...

[lark]

32. He'll take it to SCOTUS where the Russian Repugs will once again dishonor the constitution.

They will enable the fascist wanna-be dictator on some stupid fake charge and America will be dead.

[Baltimike]

33. He won't lose. The Russians will rig it again like they did the last time. nt

[marlakay]

34. I think publicly he will whine, fuss, and be bitter

But in private all alone he will feel relieved. He never wanted to be president and have all this responsibility, he is just playing a power game and using presidency to get more money.

He will pretend to be upset and his tweets will show that, but it won’t be true, he wants to go back to his life.

[Javaman]

35. he will do one of these things...

a)launch a nuke
b)start a war
c)kill someone out of anger on 5th ave
d)refuse to leave
e)call everything in the world fake news
f)barricade himself in the white house
g)go on a massive mcd's eating binge
h)declare Martial law
i)rally his moron followers to attack anything non-right wing white
j)fire all his staff and pout
k)declare the election illegal because he lost
l)try and jail the winner
m)plead for help from kim
n)plead for help from putin
o)plead for help from boris
p)try to arrest everyone in the press
q)delcare fox news the state news agency
r)use a sharpy to redraw the electoral map
s)defund entire government and try to pocket the money
t)call up the national guard to occupy the blue states
u)call for a new election. one that he wins
v)leave the country on an overnight flight
w)kill his family and bathe in their blood
x)have his kids go on tv to declare him the winner
y)steal everything that isn't nailed down in the WH
z)all. of. the. above.

[left-of-center2012]

37. I'm guessing you'll be leaving soon.

[Major Nikon]

38. His concern was noted

[pdxflyboy]

39. Looks like the cardinal has flown. N/T

[Gothmog]

41. We need to win by a large margin

If this is a close election, then trump will contest and claim that he really won. It will be a mess

[Joe941]

42. If he loses? More like when he loses.

Seriously any candidate with a pulse will beat him. He is one of the most unpopular presidents in history.

[Maxheader]

43. It will take the yellow haired fool..

a few years to realize its not in the white house anymore...it will try to give orders to the warden and guards about its food preferences and updates on the wall...

[dalton99a]

44. In a few years he won't even realize he was ever president or had a wife named Ivanka

[kentuck]

45. He will announce that the election was rigged...

And he will have his Attorney General look into it.

He will not immediately say that he is not going to leave office. He will create a narrative over the few weeks before the new President is to take office, then about 3 days before the new President is to be sworn in, he will announce that he is not going to leave the job until the questions are cleared up about the "voter fraud" and the "illegal voting". He will say he is ready to leave whenever the matter is cleared up but the matter will never be cleared up.

[CrispyQ]

46. He'll sue. That's what he does.

He'll try to tie it up in the courts & stay in the White House until it gets to his pals at SCOTUS. I hope the dems bring their A Game, but also have a good Plan B.

[at140]

51. He will immediately head to Mar-a-Lago to play golf?

I know from personal experience when I am on the golf course, I forget all my troubles and problems!

[wasupaloopa]

52. He will be so hated by then. Americans will ride him out of the country on a rail. My guess is he

will flee to Russia and be Putin's toy.

[vlyons]

54. Tweets galore, but go he will

His family and his lawyers will persuade him that he needs to focus on defending against the many NY state indictments that will surely come, plus all the Fed indictments that may very well come with the next POTUS.

Somebody better count all the spoons in the WH after he's gone. No telling what he'll try to steal.

[Hoyt]

55. He'll scream and holler, blame everyone but his ignorant white wing base, attempt to

pardon as many criminal friends as possible, etc.

In the end, he'll leave office in 2021 a shamed, worthless old man.

[LonePirate]

57. I think he will quit around October 2020 if it appears he will lose by a landslide.

[DinahMoeHum]

60. Hopefully, he'll commit harakiri, unfortunately, that requires. . .

. . .a certain sense of honor, which he ain't got.