@corbe
@mystery-ak
I doubt Trump will last two years. He will cease to be president, one of three ways:
1. In my opinion, he has a mental disorder and his family has covered that up for years, except for his verbal outbursts and twitter non-stoppable tweets. He won't be able to handle the massive job 24 yrs. a day, he won't have the two sons, only the daughter to run the government, and may be committed to a mental hospital due to a breakdown, and Pence becomes President.
2. Add to the mental disorder, he only sleeps 3 hrs. a night and that may fail him, too, due to the massive job, leading to heart stoppage/stroke/or death and Pence becomes President.
3. It becomes known (today he said he will never release his tax returns), he is a compromised President, guilty of crimes and/or misdemeanors in his actions as President (it is his way or the highway regardless of law), and is impeached with Republicans agreeing, and Pence becomes President.
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Certainly you are well trained, experienced and wise in a list of such issues.
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However, as I read your post . . . I just had a moderate impression of "No." . . . that it won't turn out that way.
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I think it's more likely he'll be assassinated.
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He could resign if made an offer he 'couldn't refuse.' But I think his stubbornness and pride would work against that.
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Speculating on his RAD quotient . . . I think it's a mixed bag. I think he got some significant approval from his dad in his years of working with him. But I suspect the first 6-8 years were devoid of a significant amount of the love he desperately needed.
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He's clearly insecure enough to be annoyingly if not shockingly self-aggrandizing. I wonder if his kids and wife will try and moderate that more.
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His pride is accordingly well above average.
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I know when I first became aware of him, watching his TV show--I thought he was a cruel, blow-hard buffoon. There's still plenty of that flavor about him.
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I do suspect that were he to be as mentally compromised as you conclude, he'd not have survived his 4 bankruptcies.
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In some respects, I think the stress and dynamics of negotiating, building . . . maybe even tearing down . . . are like an addictive drug to this workaholic. I think that's where he gets a lot of his adrenaline highs.
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However, the interviews with his kids present a significantly different picture than even a moderately mentally fragile individual. His kids come across as quite candid, somewhat as does their father. They come across to me as folks used to telling it like they see it. And they describe a father who put them and contact with them so high that they'd be connected by phone in the middle of his business meetings regardless of how high a priority the meeting or members of the meeting were--including with foreign heads of state. And that was evidently true even when they were quite young. That's not common.
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They always felt he had their ear and put them at or near the very top of his priorities. That's not common in the business world he lives in. I suspect that somehow his dad may have communicated that value one way or another.
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And, all ranks of folks who have worked under him similarly describe a personality at significant odds with the one the media paint and the one you seem to see.
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Certainly I see him as mentally compromised to a degree--but to a significantly less fragile, a less hazardous degree than you seem to see him as being afflicted with.
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I think he will bring us a number of surprises--a number of them patriotic, up-building. I suspect his leadership will be much better than a list of other presidents. That also may be his downfall and cost him his life but I think that's the way the die is likely to be cast.
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Is he a Greek Tragedy figure--lofty with a devastating, utterly crashing-and-burning fatal flaw--as you seem to see him?
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I don't know. But I don't think so. I don't think even his serious flaws rise to that level of flawed-ness.
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I don't think he will be a boring President. LOL.
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I hope he gives the oligarchy serious stomach and other pains.
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I pray he stays alive and functioning effectively long enough to throw lots of monkey wrenches in their plans. Time will tell on that and the other scores.
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3 hours of sleep is not that much. However, there are a few folks who seem to function well enough for decades on about that much sleep. They are rare. They do exist. The pottery master is one.
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I am a bit troubled by his keeping FBI Director Comey. Troubling. Did Comey play an Edgar Hoover on him? I hope not.
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I personally don't think his tax returns are a huge deal. If he released them, they are likely so complex and massive, there would be no end of the feeding frenzy of those who seek to destroy him. He doesn't need that grief and neither does the nation.
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Regardless, Almighty God Yehovah sets up and takes leaders down. HE will decide that issue for HIS own purposes.
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Look how long the traitor, very serious narcissist, imposter, illegal immigrant, Marxist, Destroyer, etc. OThuga remained in power. Evidently we deserved him for a long list of reasons and we got what we deserved--an oligarchy chosen, trained and conditioned Destroyer-in-Chief.
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I just don't think that at 70 years old--given all the extensive stresses in his long life--he would still be functioning at anywhere near effective levels if he were as seriously mentally compromised as you see him.
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Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. And at 70 years of tolerable functioning, I'd speculate he's got a number of more years left at more or less effective functioning.
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Interesting issue, anyway.
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Thanks.
