President Trump has called off plans to appear at the Trump International Hotel on election night

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

“President Trump has called off plans to appear at the Trump International Hotel on election night, and is likely to be at the White House instead, according to a person familiar with the plans.” ⁦


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I think we know where this is going. Not a chance Trump will appear in public if he loses.

[malaise]

1. Whining and Packing

That is all

[Rorey]

3. I'm going to stand by my original prediction

I don't think he'll stick around until the inauguration.

[malaise]

7. Agree

[PatrickforO]

50. What? You mean you suspect he'll be a poor loser?

I'm thinking he may flee the country.

[SergeStorms]

59. That's my fear as well.

First, he's going to spend almost every day after the election at Mar-ma-lado, fleecing the taxpayers as much as possible. Then, well before inauguration day, he's going to bolt to Russia or some other country without an extradition treaty with the U.S. so he can avoid the legal ramifications of his ridiculous foray into politics.

Then he'll start selling state secrets to the highest bidder (if any country will trust him to remember correctly what those secrets are) and that will put the finishing touches on his treason to the United States.

[Grokenstein]

66. He's going to have a hard time shaking his service detail.

[cbdo2007]

95. Not as tough as you may think.

Add to the list of things we didn't think possible. All he has to do is go down to Mar-a-Lago and tell them he is in his private office and doesn't want to be disturbed and slip out the back door in surprise. He could easily have a 2 hour head start to hop on a private boat to an island in the Caribbean.

[Clearly fogged in]

72. It's nice we have leadership

The past several years have shown that a monkey can sling shit everywhere. So for now it's all hands on deck to erect the cage around him by Tuesday. That means getting the votes in. Then we will be told how deep it is and where to start.

[LiberalArkie]

81. He will deliver Air Force 1 and all the exotic crypto gear to the highest bidder.

He will still be president after the election and the secret service can not stop him.

[avebury]

86. Should that happen there might be someone on that plane loyal enough

to the US to destroy any equipment that might compromise the US.

[USALiberal]

54. LOL, ok! nt

[barbtries]

75. i think the whole clan may just flee the country.

they committed a lot of crimes during their reign.

[whopis01]

83. I've been saying that for a while as well.

He will come up with some BS spin as to how he already accomplished everything he set out to do, was a huge success, and doesn't need to be in office any more.

[vlyons]

85. There will certainly be no graciously hosting the Presidednt-Elect and Mrs Biden to coffee at the WH

on the day before the inauguration. Trump doesn't do gracious.

[GoCubsGo]

12. And, trashing and looting the place.

You know he will. I hope they scour the place for bugs when he goes.

[malaise]

14. I sure would watch the silver

and (given his history) double check that he hasn't replaced original paintings with fake shit.

[AllaN01Bear]

68. im hoping that the codes in the football are changed and in a secure location.

[avebury]

87. I think that the silver will be ok. Now if it was

gold that would be another matter.

They are, in fact, a very tacky family.

[malaise]

89. ROFL

[lagomorph777]

29. Bedbugs and Яussian bugs.

[3Hotdogs]

34. Someone better put tracking devices on the Lincoln portrait, Lincoln bed,

--- have Southby's come and evaluate stuff and tag anything above $5.00.

[Rebl2]

78. And just

Scrub the place down with disinfectant!!! Who will be left to shred everything? Maybe they already are?

[C Moon]

91. Even if he didn't have COVID, scrub the place down.

Ew!
That whole family makes me nauseous!

[getagrip_already]

20. he has people to pack for him...

Besides, he can't fit the resulte desk in his carry on, so he will have the movers handle it along with all the art works from the wh.

[malaise]

21. LOL

He's about to learn the meaning of resolute

[D23MIURG23]

98. This is wildly inaccurate.

There is no chance he'll be packing his own bags - I doubt he's even medically capable of that. He needs two hands to lift a glass of water FFS.

He'll probably be eating six big macs and wallowing about how the world is "very unfair" to him. How dare he get dealt a problem that he couldn't obfuscate his way out of.

[malaise]

99. ROFL - my bad

[Rorey]

2. WHEN he loses

[TheBlackAdder]

93. He's set the White House up as a fortress and he's going to hunker down if he loses.

[5X]

4. Watch for him to start boarding up the white house

gonna hide in his bunker.

[Captain Zero]

25. Is that huge wall still around the white house?

The one built ostensibly for the BLM rioters ? I've always thought convenient in case he tries to stay after he is voted out.

[xxqqqzme]

79. I've been wondering about

that wall too. Any recent pictures of the White House grounds?

[NEOBuckeye]

5. He doesn't want to look like a LOSER in front of his own property

Though it would be fitting for him since that’s what he has always been.

[lagomorph777]

31. The Old Post Office is not Trump's property.

He is renting it from the US Government, in violation of the Emoluments Clause.

[Harker]

36. He thinks he owns the White House.

Bunker scene upcoming.

[PJMcK]

57. Didn't Trump call the White House "a dump"? (n/t)

[Harker]

65. He did.

I think his opinion changed when he fully realized how good it is that a bunch of suckers and losers pay all his expenses there.

[olegramps]

69. He hired Saddam's decorator for his penthouse. The same gaudy taste.

Trump thinks that if he makes his residence look like brothel he will be classy; lots of gold furnishings and velvet. He has the taste of a whore in furnishing and extramarital women.

[brooklynite]

6. This in unbelievable...

...how is he going to make any money this way?

[woodsprite]

8. Maybe he's afraid he'll miss his flight to Moscow. nt

[lagomorph777]

32. +1

[eShirl]

9. womp-womp.

[Siwsan]

10. Is he finally accepting reality, or barricading himself in.

I think it's a given that he won't go with any degree of grace or dignity.

[sunonmars]

13. Trump would not miss an opportunity to be there and make money if he was going to win.

Not a chance, he'd be there screaming and going nuts.

Tells me a lot he is not going there.

[Siwsan]

17. I wonder if the White House has a secret escape tunnel

I'd love to see live footage of that entire family when the election is finally called but I kind of expect that at least some of them will be 'In Seclusion' somewhere far away.

[groundloop]

44. In "seclusion" or in hiding?

[machoneman]

52. I'm sure they do. One hidden but tall and wide enough (no, not for his fat ass!) for a vehicle...

to pass through, quickly, for an escape lead my his SS squad.

[Cirque du So-What]

15. Quiet dignity and grace

[Siwsan]

19. Perfect!!!

[shelshaw]

11. It's because the WH is a fortified structure

[FailureToCommunicate]

58. This.

[BeyondGeography]

16. Wuss

[no_hypocrisy]

18. This change of plans surprises me (honestly).

I had envisioned Joe winning by a landslide Tuesday night, even before the paper ballots were counted. And Trump being in denial, would declare Victory and receiving congratulatory phonecalls from Putlin, MBS, Erdogan, etc. in the Grand Ballroom of the Trump International Hotel.

[onlyadream]

24. He's a big whimp

He can’t risk being in public when he loses, so he’s going to hide in the WH.
This is good. It shows us that he’s giving up.

[sunonmars]

26. The campaigns know by now what way its falling.

[Sherman A1]

37. I hope that is the case

who really knows with republicans?

[icwlmuscyia]

22. Moscow here we come!

Can he take AF1 over and then send it back empty?

[Botany]

23. I can breath again!

[Danmel]

27. Is he envisioning a balcony appearance either in triumph

Or to declare martial law?

Haed yo imagine what goes on in that mind.

[Arazi]

43. Agreed. Frankly this makes me very nervous. He's going to go full dictator at the WH

[Ford_Prefect]

77. And what he doesn't do Mitch will be doing...

[lagomorph777]

28. Holy crap. Retreating to the bunker, or a mad dash to Marine 1 and expatriation?

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

30. He'll be on a private jet to somewhere where there is

no extradition.

Putin would take him, of course, and use him for his personal poodle.

"Oh, Trumpy, be a good boy and fetch my slippers for me."

[JHB]

62. That might be entertaining for about half an hour, then it'll get tiresome

Who'd want to put up with Useless Don's constant yapping and complaining?

Soon enough he'll set Donnie up with a new "resort." On one of those islands up by the Arctic Circle.

[yankeepants]

33. It will be like the opening scene of "Shitts Creek".

[KY_EnviroGuy]

51. There are people here from the government!

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[PCIntern]

96. ROFLMAO!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

35. Headed to the Bunker

to command the shock troops

[Harker]

41. "When Barr attacks everything will be in order...". n/t

[hatrack]

38. What? And miss the grift?

Puzzling, if true.

Is it that somebody else made the decision while he was on the COVID-Fest 19 World Tour?

Or did the polling numbers finally sink in?

[fleur-de-lisa]

45. The rooms are already booked, at an inflated price.

And I bet there is a no refund/no cancellation policy.

[hatrack]

48. That makes sense - with cash in hand, why bother showing up?

Particularly true with a big red L across your forehead.

[lagomorph777]

60. Nobody was actually going to stay in the rooms, anyway.

Purely a money-laundering scheme.

[LaMouffette]

39. Maybe he needs to be at the White House to sign his self-pardon for all his misdeeds . . .

at one minute before midnight on Election Night.

Then he'll slink off to his waiting jet and escape under the cloak of darkness to some secret hidey-hole. There, he'll hire a ghost writer (with no intention of paying her or him, natch!) to help him write a tell-all book of his own called No Collusion! in hopes of raking in some dough. If it looks like he might not be going to prison, he will return to the U.S. and go on a book signing/farewell rally tour to pump his ego back up AND to sabotage newly elected president Joe Biden's efforts to combat the coronavirus.

If he still has supporters after having killed half of them of via Covid-19, he will launch his own TV channel: Trump TV. This last one is an almost certainty.

[MyNameGoesHere]

40. Guessing the helicopter is fueled and waiting

To take him to his awaiting plane for its one way flight to Russia.

[Bad Thoughts]

42. He is planning shenanigans

At the White House, he can have staff ready to take orders.

[Beringia]

46. Inauguration Day, A Countdown Clock and then Image of A Golden Toilet being flushed

[Clearly fogged in]

47. Oh great. So now we face getting a recluse out of his nest.

He's run the full gamut.
His term has been like driving a bus around the block.
He jumped in the driver's seat of the full bus and decided to circle the block.
At the first corner he turned and stopped, all the dems got off. No one else got on.
On the next corner it was the seasoned, knowledgeable public servants getting off. Some miscreants snuck aboard for the thrill of a free ride.
By the time the bus reached the third corner the abused media decided to go.

As he maneuvers the bus to the last turn, his remaining riders grasp the hand straps, afraid to walk bare faced into the crowds of the masked and jeering public. Yes, he's turned the last corner. The corner exposing to his side to the reality that they don't have a place to go. The side that fear the cities and the suburbs, that fear blue states and immigrants, that lives in constant fear of change must now face it.

Trump will go to his room, closing the door behind him and shutting out the world. His supporters cannot. We must keep them in fear, in fear of being exposed as the vermin they are. And we can do it using their playbook.

They, the conservatives, will typically greet one another or open a conversation with something along political or divisive lines such as - hey, did you hear Pelosi (any talking point) wants or did this or that? We can do the same - did you hear new consumer protection laws are coming? We can no longer let them bluster and intimidate us.

So, Trump, go to your room and close the door. I'm going to stand here at the bus stop in front of your house and tell everyone on your bus that their driver isn't coming out. He doesn't want to talk to you. He says to tell you that riding his bus doesn't make you friends. Just go home.

[lagomorph777]

61. The bus metaphor is a good one. But like in Omaha, he'll peel out, leaving his sycophants

in a cloud of tire smoke.

[Raven]

49. He wants to declare victory behind the Resolute Desk?

[MoonRiver]

53. He wants to make sure to pack all his stolen goodies, plus anything else that catches his evil eye.

[jcgoldie]

55. Who wants to go to a party and be humiliated in front of a bunch of people?

I'd stay home too.

[Historic NY]

56. hiding in the bunker.

[onenote]

63. This concerns me.

I think he wants to be in the WH so he can address the nation and declare an emergency based on what he will claim is a fraudulent election.

[Locrian]

67. yes my fear as well...

I think of all the cheesy horror movies where they "get" the bad guy then turn their backs and he jumps up.
He's not going down w/o a full on (metaphorically speaking) smack down - and keep your eyes on him to the end

[yellowdogintexas]

76. My first thought whether he wins or loses: the power of the WH is an important image

conceding from there demonstrates he still has power until Jan 21

Declaring victory from there reinforces his power as a second term president

Either way no good.

[Arazi]

80. I don't think this is a good development at all tbh

[Silver1]

88. This is what I worry about too.

He certainly has been laying the groundwork for it. The question is how much support does he have round him to carry out any orders.

[cbdo2007]

92. I wouldn't be surprised if he called in the military to surround the WH as well because he knows

there will be riots.

What are we all dumb here?!?! We called this months ago when HE BUILT THE WALL around the WH, that this exact scenario would play out.

The other option is that he won't really be in Washington at all, and that he will say it is a security risk and he'll be down at Mar-a-Lago waiting for his boat ride out of the country.

[NightWatcher]

97. He's going to be sitting in a fueled up plane on the tarmac w his family and bags of cash.

When he loses by 25+ million votes and it is called at 9:30 EST he goes wheels up with no flight plan on file.

A guy can dream, right?

[WyattKansas]

64. Hopefully it turns out so bad for them that all the rats immediately begin jumping ship.

Or everyone around him finally tells him where to go when he orders them to do criminal crap or even listen to him anymore, sending the Idiot in Chief into a meltdown and feeling like he tortured just being there any longer. At least Mikey Pence would act like a neutered puppy and listening to Joe Biden's directions, because he would want preferential treatment for what he was a part of in the worst American Presidency.

[Happy Hoosier]

70. It MUST be made clear...

... that Federal property and assets cannot be used for partisan political purposes, at least for public events.

How many here think the Trump campaign is actually paying what it is "required" to for the use of Air Force One and Air Force Two?

[barbtries]

71. i wonder if they'll sedate him heavily,

or if he'll be tweeting insanely. he obviously believes he's losing or he would be planning to be somewhere he could crow incessantly to the cult.

[lindysalsagal]

73. Because his usefulness to Vlad ends that night, and he can hide in the sit room

from the kgb.

[ChazInAz]

74. I picture the end of MacBeth.

The usurper alone in Dunsinane, his toadies and thugs having deserted him. Wandering the empty halls, raving.
Then he he notices that Burnham Wood is closer than it used to be...

[hurple]

82. He will be

On a plane to Russia.

[vlyons]

84. Can't bear the shame of being a LOSER

Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser

So tell us Mr Trump, how does it feel to be a Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser Loser?

Just wait til the presidential criminal investigations start.

[packman]

90. You'all got it wrong

He's going to be at the WH working with his task force on a Covid plan

Yah-

[Rice4VP]

94. If it's what you say...

I love it!

[Hestia]

100. If I were in charge, mere moments after election is declared, I would confiscate *all* their

passports (Intelligence says he can't leave country because they figure he'd sell any and all Intelligence to highest bidders around the world). Then charges would be read and handcuffs come out. Joe can be inaugurated in private ceremony allowing him and his transfer teams to take over, kicking everyone out up to and including any Bush admin people still around. Then get to work.