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To ask if Donald Trump could actually be president again?

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tinkertee · 16/01/2024 08:37

I've just seen a headline about him now being the front runner for the Republican nomination. Which I assume means it's entirely a possibility that he could then win.

I'm British (English) so I know our current government is a complete embarrassment. But I will never get my head around DT having been president once never mind possibly twice.

How could this happen??

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Mrsjayy · 16/01/2024 09:10

Nottold · 16/01/2024 08:53

Im finding the american political sysyem extremely hard to follow 😵‍💫

oh I can't get my head round it, I thought he wasn't allowed to run again yet here is voters wanting him as their candidate again, I can't work out what's happening.

EffieeBriest · 16/01/2024 09:10

Scares me too. The climate change denial in particular.

Rosiesmum23 · 16/01/2024 09:09

I think it is very likely, and it scares the hell out of me.

user1484056932 · 16/01/2024 09:08

Trump will win in November, majority in the USA hate the way the country is going under senile Biden, open borders, countless wars, caring more about illegals than his own citizens, the economy is woeful. A lot on MN can't get past their TDS to see how weak & pathetic the USA is right now on the world stage under Biden!

IncompleteSenten · 16/01/2024 09:07

Unless he's actually in prison at the time, I expect he will, yes.

My main fear is he'll try to change the two term limit. People will say no he won't but I think he'll try. He'll claim he's owed extra because of that stolen election he claims happened 🙄 and all sorts of conspiracy theory shit like that. He's got a massive following of idiots and conspiracy theory nutters. Stupid people + guns = danger.

He idolises dictators and he'll try his best to become one. He's extremely unlikely to succeed but that won't stop him trying. He'll try to use the military to achieve that.

Come back to this thread in a few years and we'll see if I was right.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 16/01/2024 09:06

RitzyMcFee · 16/01/2024 09:04

This is what i don't understand. They have had years to find someone.

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This is the biggest mystery for me as well.

Cottagecheeseisnotcheese · 16/01/2024 09:05

If I was going to vet on who will win ( not who I want to win) I would be fairly sure Trump will win

MadamVastra · 16/01/2024 09:04

Soubriquet · 16/01/2024 09:01

I hope he won’t especially since his latest tweet was basically “I don’t care if you die on your way home from the voting office as long as you vote for me first”

Omg 🤭🤣

RitzyMcFee · 16/01/2024 09:04

GenXisthebest · 16/01/2024 08:58

The thing I don't understand is why the Democrats can't find a better candidate than Biden?

This is what i don't understand. They have had years to find someone.

Greenshake · 16/01/2024 09:03

I really wish that someone like Anthony Blinken was in the running. The current situation is very bleak.

Soubriquet · 16/01/2024 09:03

MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel · 16/01/2024 09:00

I can't fathom why

  1. America doesn't have an upper age limit on presidents

  2. why someone found guilty of fraud is allowed to be president

  3. why America is so batshit crazy!

I’ve just seen your user name…

Supernatural Fan? Grin @MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel

xILikeJamx · 16/01/2024 09:02

Also - expect Trump to try to force through a change in the law so he can be president for more than 2 terms...

I get why none of the younger potential candidates have no desire to get involved in any of this - it'll be an absolute disaster no matter who stands up and probable career-wrecker. In their best interests to let the old men fight it out until they're dead and out the picture then try to bring some new thinking along

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 16/01/2024 09:01

Hope not.

But I really wonder how Biden will last another term as well, if he wins, and I think he will win.

Soubriquet · 16/01/2024 09:01

I hope he won’t especially since his latest tweet was basically “I don’t care if you die on your way home from the voting office as long as you vote for me first”

To ask if Donald Trump could actually be president again?
MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel · 16/01/2024 09:00

I can't fathom why

  1. America doesn't have an upper age limit on presidents

  2. why someone found guilty of fraud is allowed to be president

  3. why America is so batshit crazy!

Shade17 · 16/01/2024 09:00

Not only a possibility, but quite likely I should imagine.

Silvergreenblue · 16/01/2024 08:59

Why can't they pick someone who is younger? Why is there only a choice of 2 old wrinklies?

SanctuaryCity · 16/01/2024 08:58

The whole thing is a mess. Both parties have deeply unsuitable candidates. Biden looks like a pensioner with dementia shuffling round a nursing home and Trump is like that racist, sexist, nasty old uncle at a wedding who everyone tolerates acting like a selfish boorish asshole. Why didn’t the democrats stand up to Biden and chose a different, younger candidate?

GenXisthebest · 16/01/2024 08:58

The thing I don't understand is why the Democrats can't find a better candidate than Biden?

Mothership4two · 16/01/2024 08:57

WandaWonder · 16/01/2024 08:56

Well he was once so why not?

Because of all the things he did when he was?

MrsElijahMikaelson1 · 16/01/2024 08:57

Yep

xILikeJamx · 16/01/2024 08:56

Almost certainly will be Trump next I'm afraid.

Biden has just rinsed his approval rating by backing Israel so much, so he won't beat Trump. The Democrats seem to be in a dearth of leadership options at the moment and I'd struggle to name another leader from their side that has any real stature (I am from the UK right enough).

The 'regular' Republicans can't seem to unite behind one candidate (and given the options, I cant say I blame them) so the MAGA mob will see Trump through more or less unopposed from any angle.

WandaWonder · 16/01/2024 08:56

Well he was once so why not?

HairyQueenofSnots · 16/01/2024 08:55

Yeah - he's gonna do it and I'm gonna spend another 4 years turning off the radio everytime his voice is played (which was surprisingly often last time around) because I find it too upsetting to hear it.

I don't have much time for Biden either - though prefer him to Trump.

More and more over the last few years I've come to realise, I don't really understand America at all. Too big, too different from what I know and too diverse. I cannot wrap my head around their political choices.

(I can barely wrap my head around some of ours!!!)

Nottold · 16/01/2024 08:53

Im finding the american political sysyem extremely hard to follow 😵‍💫

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