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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'He Hates America': Trump Slammed For Admitting He'd 'Prefer' To Live Overseas
Donald Trump admitted that he would like to leave the country and live overseas.
Trump, who has frequentlyexpresseddisdain for America and Americans, made the confession during a rally in New Hampshire on Tuesday as he griped about the charges against him and lamented ever getting into politics.
I could have been relaxing at Mar-a-Lago or in the south of France ― which I would prefer to being in this country, frankly.
Link - https://www.yahoo.com/news/hates-america-trump-slammed-admitting-071531117.html
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Twitter users are telling him good riddance and to go ahead and leave. Hopefully he will be convicted and in prison but I would not mind if he took his shit show out of our nation.
no_hypocrisy
(54,187 posts)1. The heat/humidity index at Mar-A-Lago is likely more than 107 right now. That's why he's in Bedminster.
2. He's never been to the South of France.
FakeNoose
(40,085 posts)He always goes to Bedminster this time of year.
Anyone who tries to play golf in Florida in August must be a tourist, or else crazy.
But I AGREE he'd never go to France or any other non-English-speaking country. The places where he'd like to go, would never take him, like Scotland, England, Canada or Australia.
Celerity
(53,591 posts)



granted, that is not the Côte d'Azur, which most think of when a person mentions 'the South of France'

Tanuki
(16,278 posts)peggysue2
(12,372 posts)From the way-back machine. I'd forgotten that quip when Agent Orange dumped on France.
As if the French would want his lard ass!
thomski64
(837 posts)...revoke his bail, lock the motherfucker up..
ShazzieB
(22,191 posts)wnylib
(25,355 posts)ahead of time in ways that people too often do not take seriously.
More than once during his term in office, he indicated that he did not intend to leave the White House. He praised Putin's political manipulations that would make Putin the forever president of Russia and said that the US needed something like that. He complained that the Mueller investigation had robbed time from him and that he deserved 2 extra years in his term to compensate. During the 2020 debates, he said that he would accept the outcome of the election only if he won. He even announced that the Proud Boys should "Stand back and stand by."
Yet people were surprised at J6. But why? He had already indicated his intentions. People did not take him seriously when he did.
This comment now indicates that he will flee rather than face a trial that he is not sure of winning. He will leave rather than go to prison.
stuck in the middle
(821 posts)It was a dress rehearsal for his invasion of Capitol Hill.
Its a good thing he didnt have the National Guard with him on Jan 6th.
Note the question at 0:25.
President Trump walks across Lafayette Park to St. John's Church
Maine Abu El Banat
(3,530 posts)lame54
(39,192 posts)This should show up in Friday's hearing
malaise
(292,461 posts)Let that sink in- he is terrified.
That makes me so happy😀😀😀
PJMcK
(24,715 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 9, 2023, 06:37 AM - Edit history (1)
Hes so easy to read its laughable. The sad thing is how many people cant see the obvious.
Regardless, I imagine him yelling at the walls because hes losing everything. Its delicious!
ShazzieB
(22,191 posts)
malaise
(292,461 posts)Ohioboy
(3,852 posts)In many ways it would be better for the country. Less cost for trials and security. No more MAGA rallies here. It would prove how guilty he is. It would show him to be the coward he is. Just some thoughts.
Pachamama
(17,540 posts)My money has long been on him being a runner
He will never see a day in prison - not because he wont be convicted - but because he will work out some kind of deal that allows him to live in exile - or be a fugitive.
But like you Malaise - I am also smiling because its keeping him up at night and on his mind as he sweats
.
Yes - he is terrified
wnylib
(25,355 posts)smoke and mirror BS will not work with the DC judge and that he really cannot bluff his way out of the charges. Neither can he be sure of the election as his way out. The reality is sinking in. And it scares him.
tavernier
(14,250 posts)I cant wait to hear the opinions of the French when they learn about this. They might start constructing a wall, lol!
Joinfortmill
(19,983 posts)hlthe2b
(112,722 posts)GreenWave
(12,232 posts)SomewhereInTheMiddle
(607 posts)
Paper Roses
(7,614 posts)Historic NY
(39,599 posts)Pinback
(13,493 posts)GreenWave
(12,232 posts)Well played Pinback!
Joinfortmill
(19,983 posts)peppertree
(23,122 posts)Trump's model of governance.
True Blue American
(18,579 posts)To avoid all the law suits against him. He needs to go to Russia, help Putin fight the war! On the front lines!
Lonestarblue
(13,209 posts)Im conflicted on whether it would be better for the US if he bolts or if he stays and is convicted and sentences to prison. I think his leaving the country might actually be better because being imprisoned turns him into a martyr while abandoning the country means abandoning his cult. Im not sure they would continue their worship of him.
TurboDem
(353 posts)if his cult members followed him to whatever country he moved to. They could try their shit there and see how long they can get away with it.
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MyOwnPeace
(17,441 posts)Moses leading his tribe into the wilderness!
SergeStorms
(19,919 posts)to Donnie Jr. and surreptitiously run the cult via tweet or X or whatever Musk is calling his 50 billion dollar toy this week.
Remember, there were already preparations under way for Donnie Jr. to run for president in 2024 after Daddy finished his....ahem...second term.
They had bumper stickers on the market and everything. That's why Kim Gargoyle sunk her talons into Jrs.' flesh.
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)Every place else his plane could reach without refueling hates his guts and would ship him back.
Liberal In Texas
(15,964 posts)RocRizzo55
(980 posts)To Russia or Saudi Arabia. Maybe even his favorite, North Korea!
I would imagine that the French people would, at the very least, spit on him.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)NowsTheTime
(1,244 posts)Mysterian
(6,155 posts)Lock his ass up.
kentuck
(115,069 posts)You can leave anytime.
Ferrets are Cool
(22,515 posts)I don't think him being out of the country would change his rhetoric.
wnylib
(25,355 posts)He would be vindictive about being driven from his "rightful place" in the WH.
I think that he would also lash out vindictively against the people that he feels betrayed him by testifying to the prosecution. He would release publicly, from abroad, whatever kompromat he has on them. He would do that for 2 reasons - to get revenge on them and to create further discord in the US as a parting shot.
Imagine what would happen here if Trump revealed what he has on Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz, and several others that he has controlled. Some of what he said would be true and some would be made up.
Is it possible that his threat to leave the US is also a threat to witnesses that if he leaves, he can freely expose them?
PortTack
(35,810 posts)A lot less scheming and planning for violence in general. Fux and the other non new stations will have to find another topic
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)They can't stand him, either.
If he's a fugitive, they'd ship him back, without Biden even having to ask.
rambler_american
(926 posts)we all wish he lived overseas too.
Tetrachloride
(9,341 posts)american prison
we should not dump him on other people
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Really bad prison time... Nazi war criminal... from advisor to liability
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 - report
http://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-war-criminal-alois-brunner-died-in-syria-basement-in-2001-report/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38586945
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner 'died in Syria squalor'
One of his guards said Brunner, who went by the name of Abu Hussein, suffered and cried a lot in his final years, everyone heard him.
The man, identified only as Omar, said he couldnt even wash.
All he had to eat were army rations - awful stuff - and an egg or a potato. He had to choose one or the other.
(He was a 'consultant' to various torture regimes but when he became a political embarrassment/liability, his retirement plan was really bad)
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)They don't deserve to have our homegrown filth polluting their beautiful countries.
Russia--sure. Turkey--sure. Saudi Arabia--sure. They can have him.
But France? Scotland? Ireland? Japan? Australia?
Nope. They don't deserve that.
Norbert
(7,548 posts)After what Lardass just said.
gordianot
(15,737 posts)It is time to move the con for new marks. The problem is no one would want that operation in their back yard. Somehow the thought of Donald Trump the refugee is ironically appealing.
Paladin
(32,241 posts)As long as he can attract the brain-dead, worshipful, goon crowds here, he'll never leave. What other country would have him? Russia?
ProudMNDemocrat
(20,580 posts)In Siberia?
Best_man23
(5,267 posts)And move somewhere "where they have no pretense of loving liberty, to Russia for instance."
There, the Insurrectionist can bask in 100% pure despotism, free of the trappings of hypocrisy.
onethatcares
(16,961 posts)head east old man, head east.
thesquanderer
(12,899 posts)usaf-vet
(7,748 posts)Just the place for a treasonous, very former POTUS.
SunSeeker
(57,475 posts)Tetrachloride
(9,341 posts)connect some dots
dalton99a
(91,914 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,449 posts)mwb970
(12,064 posts)tanyev
(48,622 posts)The footage was collated and posted online with English translations by Daily Beast columnist Julia Davis, who created the Russian Media Monitor watchdog. Her Twitter bio, which says she has been hit by sanctions from Russia, ends with the words: "I watch Russian state TV, so you don't have to."
Davis uploaded the clips to Twitter late on Monday night. Her caption read: "Meanwhile in Russia: watch these highlights from today's state TV shows. The Kremlin's pet propagandists hate America, love Trump, find him 'incredible,' say they place all of their hope in him and Russia should continue to support 'its candidate.'"
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-tv-praises-trump-putin-1740156
Ilsa
(63,804 posts)many time zones away. Maybe some magats would move to Russia to be near him.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,581 posts)And besides, American NEEDS to see him prosecuted for his crimes, for the sake of our democracy.
And not just slither away into the sunset like so many despots have before.
SpamWyzer
(385 posts)to explain to me how tRump can "bolt". He is under federal indictment for espionage, corruption, fraud, and more. He is surrounded by SS who "protect" him but they also serve as a permanent guard. tRumpo can wish away all day long that he was elsewhere (just recall him hugging and kissing the flag, saying he loves America more than anybody) but he can't escape. His plane is useless, his connections to corrupt dictators won't help him in any way. If the USA decided he is a flight risk, they will incarcerate him, but seeing as how he would need clearance to fly, he is TRAPPED. If he takes off without clearance, an F-16 or 2 will be sent to force his plane down or blow it up. Bolt? Like Usain Bolt? LOL. Orange Thing is trapped and he can't even bite his leg off to escape the trap of Justice. Watching with great enjoyment. America Being made Great Again. Hang tRump NOW!!!
newdayneeded
(2,493 posts)and huge bucks. you think F-16s will shoot him down? fuck, this country won't even take away his phone, or even take a mug shot of the guy.
I'm still going with my theory of them sending up the trump plane, and igniting a self planted bomb. Fake his death, blame on the extreme liberals, then pack him away to some private island for the rest of his life.
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)Can't make it past the British Isles after crossing the Atlantic without refueling. None of the countries on those lands would harbor him as a fugitive. He lands anywhere British, they will send him back.
Crossing the Pacific, his plane can make it to Siberia via Seattle and Anchorage/Juneau. Then he can get to Vladivostok, where he can charter a jet that can take him anywhere from there. But again, it's where he lands from there that will be the problem.
Very few countries will harbor him as a fugitive. They just won't. First of all, most of them hate him as much as we do. Second, they won't jeopardize their relationship with the US over that worthless dimwit. Finally, he won't be able to stand living in most of the ones that don't have extradition agreements with the US. Nearly all of them are Muslim. Yeah--that's going to appeal to him.
He really has very few nations to choose from that are friendly to him and that he could abide. We all talk about Saudi Arabia, but, honestly, do you see him being happy there with all of those mooslims around? Or his bigotry not having him insult the country and its people, sooner or later? I doubt he'd make it there a year before they booted him out.
The only place he can go, really, is Russia.
Mr. Ected
(9,713 posts)They'd probably bring back the guillotine in his "honor".
Escurumbele
(4,004 posts)democrank
(12,093 posts)was president of the United States and has millions of Trump Cult followers who trail after him like hes the Pied Piper. Chilling, isnt it?
carpetbagger
(5,403 posts)Xi would give him asylum to have a troll trophy.
maxrandb
(17,152 posts)Katinfl
(609 posts)He could have just continued his life, his grifting, etc. but once he decided to run for president he opened up a bag of worms. The rest is history.
IronLionZion
(50,788 posts)Why would anyone want a president who hates Americans and American institutions so much?
raccoon
(32,194 posts)aeromanKC
(3,809 posts)Just sayin.......
VGNonly
(8,361 posts)Devils Island.
Fullduplexxx
(8,604 posts)mtngirl47
(1,208 posts)Ligyron
(8,004 posts)Just had to be a big shot didn't ya?
He could have stayed out of politics and been a somewhat big shot in New York and Palm Beach. He'd have had his Donald Trump Club in Palm Beach where his fans could pay a quarter million to join and all those damn golf courses losing money like everything else he touches.
But at least he'd stay out of prison.
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)bluescribbler
(2,473 posts)I have my doubts.
usonian
(23,428 posts)Gotta get some fu-el for my aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Courtroom days are gone, I'm a-movin' on
Jack Smith, he just a wrote me a letter
I don't care how much money I gotta clip
Got an appearance I've gotta skip
Courtroom days are gone, I'm a-movin' on
Jack Smith, he just a wrote me a letter
Well, he wrote me a letter
Said he wouldn't buy my song and a dance
Listen mister, can't you see I'm only a
Victim of circumstance.
Anyway, yeah
I don't care how much money I gotta clip
Got an appearance I've gotta skip
Courtroom days are gone, I'm a-movin' on
Jack Smith, he just a wrote me a letter
до свидания
dlk
(13,107 posts)Hes letting us know, ahead of time, that if hes convicted and given jail time, or house arrest, he will flee the US.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,141 posts)going anywhere.
Glaisne
(619 posts)is hatred of America and of Americans.
Botany
(76,326 posts)BTW The French don't want him there either.
Cherokee100
(431 posts)How about Moscow? He would be right at home there.
Danascot
(5,159 posts)But how about the south of Florence?

In Colorado.
Omnipresent
(7,303 posts)Its not like he's a prisoner
yet!
newdayneeded
(2,493 posts)I'm certain his citizenship would be instantly revoked. His presence in American politics would only be a quiet peep from some overseas location. his cult would see it as him cowardly running away.
fishwax
(29,346 posts)France, a word that the batshit crazy republicans of not-so-very-long-ago tried to convince us should be struck from the national vocabulary as a patriotic duty.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,141 posts)FRIES!!!1!!
Idaho potatoes deep fried in animal fat are somehow "French."
Kid Berwyn
(22,783 posts)Busting big rocks into little ones.
Chautauquas
(4,488 posts)as in - I'd like to take my money and move to the south of France, but I'm staying here to fight for you. Translation - Send me some more money so I can use it for legal fees.
meow2u3
(25,239 posts)Trump is actually plotting to flee when he's convicted. So the judge should not only yank his passport, she or he should also quit treating him like a former president instead of the criminal defendant he is.
ffr
(23,322 posts)Get it through your thick heads already!!!
Brainfodder
(7,781 posts)Mainly so he can be hunted down as a fugitive from justice!
Have that WITCH HUNT he seems so into?
Martin68
(26,996 posts)other country in the world because of his closed mind and inability to live outside his very narrow comfort zone. Foe one thing, he wouldn't get the deference he's so used to.
Wild blueberry
(8,115 posts)One-way ticket to Moscow.
Agree with all who said his passport must be confiscated.
PortTack
(35,810 posts)Advertise it on RW radio and fux snooze.
Could work in two ways.
1. His cult feel he has abandoned the cause and go back to their caves
2. Those that think hes right and can will go with him further reducing their numbers!
It a big win win!!
malthaussen
(18,379 posts)roamer65
(37,813 posts)
and take his cultists with him.
vapor2
(3,684 posts)Timer
(71 posts)He said, I could be relaxing at Mar-a-Lago, or the south of France, which I prefer being in this country, frankly.
When he mentioned France, he immediately (and clumsily) tried to make it clear that he didnt want to be there and hed rather be in this country, the USA.
He did not say to. Listen again.
I despise the man as much as anyone, but this is just a misquote.
SleeplessinSoCal
(10,368 posts)They might try to harbor him from justice.
usregimechange
(18,593 posts)republianmushroom
(22,122 posts)BlueWavePsych
(3,319 posts)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(132,570 posts)I'd donate.
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)Luck Counts
(40 posts)I think it would be a very short list of countries that would let him in, and he probably would not like them either.
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)There are a significant number of countries that do not have extradition treaties with the United States, including Afghanistan, Cuba, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Some of these countries also have no diplomatic relations with the United States, which further complicates the issue of extradition.
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)And I do mean the very last.
He was the one that reimposed sanctions on them, and called them a supporter of state-sponsored terrorism.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-hits-cuba-with-new-terrorism-sanctions-in-waning-days
If he goes anywhere near there, it won't turn out well for him.
MyMission
(2,008 posts)So we could send him to that prison, on a nice island. Not that I'm suggesting we do that, but pointing out we could.
I've been thinking of possible island prisons for him as I read this thread.
Devil's island in France is closed as a prison.
But he might get to stay at Rikers Island in NY.
Alcatraz is closed as a prison.
I think most prison islands have been repurposed.
I googled this:
The advent of modern security has lessened the incentive for setting up prison facilities on naturally isolated places like islands. And that same isolation makes the facilities hard to upkeep, creating logistical challenges with workers, maintenance, and supplies.
Maine Abu El Banat
(3,530 posts)Heading too Russia for asylum.
LudwigPastorius
(14,116 posts)
SamKnause
(14,666 posts)EndlessWire
(8,103 posts)He'd be doing us a great favor if he would leave. Not so much for the country where he ended up. We could convict him in absentia. He'd be persona non grata, subject to immediate arrest and incarceration. We wouldn't have to extradite him. That would presume we wanted him back.
He can start by sailing to the island privately owned by Ivanka and Jared. I don't know what country governs that, but let him start a rebellion there and conquer that place.
Get thee out of our country, Orange Turd. Maybe we can get a payment from some country to take you back, and use the money to pay back all those people you didn't pay, for services rendered to you while you were playing Russian Mob Boss with our Congress. Don't worry, we will always know exactly where you are.
Keep your multiple passports. You're going to need them.
liberalla
(10,796 posts)Wonder Why
(6,531 posts)DBoon
(24,666 posts)would fit him just fine
DBoon
(24,666 posts)and Marshal Petain has been long dead
C Moon
(13,434 posts)dai13sy
(570 posts)I'd help him pack but what would I catch!?
Ace Rothstein
(3,369 posts)quaint
(4,626 posts)Thanks in advance.
Rebl2
(17,355 posts)Go and never let him back in the United States. Take away his citizenship.
Bird Lady
(1,996 posts)Once you are gone the country will rejoice and have a party much larger than
anything you have ever seen! Hey, Donny karma is a bitch and you are going feel her wraith soon.
honest.abe
(9,238 posts)So clearly he has been discussing this with his family and advisers. This is a good sign since this means he expects to be convicted.
Cha
(316,588 posts)ASShole?
IbogaProject
(5,583 posts)He and his turd [sic] wife and kid and all of America can live happily ever after.
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)Some of the other former SSRs don't have one, but Slovenia isn't one of them.
IbogaProject
(5,583 posts)Would have been so good for him to be somewhere she can speak the language.
LetMyPeopleVote
(174,583 posts)onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)Tribetime
(7,046 posts)CRK7376
(2,227 posts)Should immediately move to Moscow and become best buds with Putin never to return to the USA.
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)Just to needle the idiot.
It would be fun if the French would play along and welcome him with massive crowds happy to see him.
I can dream, can't I?
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)An extradition agreement with France?
He wouldn't be in the South of France ten minutes before the French shipped him back.
I'd be super-mean about it and seize his plane. Then put him in the back oft the next commercial flight back to the US in manacles--flying coach.
Wonder if the flight attendants will throw the bags of peanuts at him like the ones on Continental did when I last flew on that crappy airline?
niyad
(129,407 posts)and the moment you were served the first of your subpoenas. NOBODY would have stopped you. HELL, many of us would have even offered to help you pack.
Of course, seppuku is always an option.
BigmanPigman
(54,540 posts)flamingdem
(40,784 posts)We want him in prison without wifi!!