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How long until Trump is removed from office by his own party? (Original Post) Doodley Apr 3 OP
Whatever dividing by zero gets you. RockRaven Apr 3 #1
Correct Cosmocat Monday #72
When they realize they're losing money. C_U_L8R Apr 3 #2
Agreed. 62% of Americams have stocks, so overwhelmingly most of those have already lost. Doodley Monday #69
They dont care about anything but power. So never. Eliot Rosewater Apr 3 #3
GOP lawmakers care about being reelected. The base care about personal finances. Trump was expected to deliver on the Doodley Apr 3 #20
Deliver what? LisaL Apr 3 #21
"Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods." Doodley Apr 3 #23
and he's doing that with tariffs Tickle Apr 4 #45
God cant help us, really nobody can when that many people voted FOR him to do this Eliot Rosewater Saturday #63
I don't think many voted for him to crash the stock market, cause a recession, and cause rumaway inflation. Doodley Monday #70
Yes but don't you get it, it's not his fault it's Biden's fault Eliot Rosewater 15 hrs ago #82
My gut says never, BlueKota Apr 3 #4
Never is the right answer. bottomofthehill Apr 3 #28
Two weeks. 2naSalit Apr 3 #5
That would be a dream come true! Thank you! Doodley Apr 3 #19
Alas, I think the poster meant a Trumpian two weeks. Mister Ed Apr 4 #34
Not until their constituents are hurting so bad that they come after them with torches and pitchforks. patphil Apr 3 #6
That may not take long. Trump's reputation as good for the economy (with MAGA) will be in tatters. Doodley Apr 3 #18
I don't think these rich people have any clue how quick and easy it is to fall travelingthrulife Apr 4 #62
You are right. This will hit most Americans. 62% of all Americans have stock. Even the wealthy will be badly affected-- Doodley Monday #68
When SocialDemocrat61 Apr 3 #7
No way to know when, but it is a distinct possibility. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 3 #8
I have seen absolutely nothing that woul Bev54 Apr 3 #9
Yes, but you haven't seen them being hurt in the pocket by the Trump tariffs. Doodley Apr 3 #17
They are getting worried Blue Full Moon Apr 3 #10
Only if they can avoid political repercussions from the cult EnergizedLib Apr 3 #11
Until the majority is hurt financially, it won't happen. sakabatou Apr 3 #12
The majority are already hurt. 62% of Americans have stocks. Doodley Monday #71
Doubt they want to go into midterms with this chaos. But who knows anymore? Silent Type Apr 3 #13
They could have massive losses. GOP lawmakers could be at war--hardline MAGA against those who want to win elections. Doodley Apr 3 #16
Maybe when they don't have a home to go back to. miyazaki Apr 3 #14
No chance, he's going the distance. BannonsLiver Apr 3 #15
It will be shortly after the GOP has implant surgery for their ever-shrinking Johnson condition. Uncle Joe Apr 3 #22
You are welcome. You think it possible? Doodley Apr 3 #32
I don't think that it's impossible. Uncle Joe Apr 4 #33
Will never happen. William769 Apr 3 #24
Never newdeal2 Apr 3 #25
The scale of this self-inflicted economic disaster does not compare to anything before. Never has the MAGA Doodley Apr 3 #30
They'll just say it's Biden's fault MrsCheaplaugh Saturday #67
Trump's approval at the end of his first term was 33 or 34%. He's going to get there again. You have to appreciate the Doodley Monday #73
Never VanceFan Apr 3 #26
The irony is if they all did it together he'd be gone and they'd be safe lindysalsagal Apr 3 #27
This is the thing. They will think about it a long time as conditions get worse Bernardo de La Paz Apr 4 #41
He needs to be removed, alright. But B.See Apr 3 #29
Never. They don't want to die. EllieBC Apr 3 #31
Exactly. Mariana Monday #74
This is not 1974, and there is no Barry Goldwater who will walk into the Oval Office and tell the president... LudwigPastorius Apr 4 #35
I would expect it would be more along the lines of a rebelion meaning no legislation could get through, a group of Doodley Apr 4 #40
So, you don't actually mean remove him from office? LudwigPastorius Apr 4 #44
Not necessarily. It could be, but I think the damage he has done is so great, he can't survive. Doodley Apr 4 #47
Not yet. The not 1974 means it will have to become many times worse than 1974 for it to happen. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 4 #42
Take in the scale of what Trump has done and the direct impact it will have on most Americans. This is unprecedented. Doodley Apr 4 #49
Correct. But the impact is only just putting a toe in the hard data Bernardo de La Paz Apr 4 #50
Yes, it will take time. This is the beginning, but it can only get worse from here as the impact of tariffs deepens. Doodley Apr 4 #58
ZERO chance!! InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 4 #36
Im guessig just a few days after... SSJVegeta Apr 4 #37
I would say it won't happen but still hope it will Meowmee Apr 4 #38
Also a convicted felon can't be an MP or PM in the UK. Shame we don't have any standards! Doodley Apr 4 #43
Yes, I have said that and more so many times... NO standards for who can run for office here Meowmee Apr 4 #46
I would rather he joined ivana. niyad Apr 4 #39
Forever and a day. BlueTsunami2018 Apr 4 #48
What he has done before hasn't changed that the MAGA base think he is the best man for the economy. He has now Doodley Apr 4 #51
I really don't know. BlueTsunami2018 Apr 4 #56
Epiphany when voters boot 1/2 of Republicans from office bucolic_frolic Apr 4 #52
Go buy a Megamillions ticket. Much better odds. Takket Apr 4 #53
Won't happen/ They are cowards. OLDMDDEM Apr 4 #54
They would be too embarrassed to remove him. Omnipresent Apr 4 #55
Absolutely never! Jrsygrl96 Apr 4 #57
About the time when ILikePie92 Apr 4 #59
Other than the public kacekwl Apr 4 #60
Not a chance in hell. They need him. Autumn Apr 4 #61
It'll take a lot, a lot of lost seats .. crashed economy... polling in the 20s - 30s uponit7771 Saturday #64
Never. They're part of the cult... worse than the voters. Oopsie Daisy Saturday #65
When the S&P drops another 40-50%. LuckyCharms Saturday #66
Never... the MAGAt take over over of the GOP is basically complete. Happy Hoosier Monday #75
They want power, they've got it. They will rid the country of democracy before they rid the country of Trump. dem4decades Monday #76
My guess is just over three and a half years. Torchlight Monday #77
4 weeks tops Blues Heron Monday #78
History will not repeat itself. There will not be another March 15th, 44 B.C. DFW Monday #79
Never. Aristus Monday #80
In about two or three weeks. When people are freaking out even more, their tax returns haven't come in ... mucholderthandirt Monday #81

Cosmocat

(15,129 posts)
72. Correct
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 08:51 AM
Monday

It would require them admitting they were wrong, and the evil liberals were right.

Never going to happen.

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
69. Agreed. 62% of Americams have stocks, so overwhelmingly most of those have already lost.
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 08:38 AM
Monday

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
20. GOP lawmakers care about being reelected. The base care about personal finances. Trump was expected to deliver on the
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 11:11 PM
Apr 3

economy.

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
23. "Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods."
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 11:26 PM
Apr 3

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
70. I don't think many voted for him to crash the stock market, cause a recession, and cause rumaway inflation.
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 08:42 AM
Monday

Eliot Rosewater

(32,825 posts)
82. Yes but don't you get it, it's not his fault it's Biden's fault
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 07:49 PM
15 hrs ago

You seethat’s how it’s played and of course, most of them will believe it.

Some will wake up, sure, but not most of them and none of this matters anymore. For another reason, is it called the save act is that the bill the Republicans will pass that will end voting by most Democrats because of how we vote and other reasons I haven’t read the whole thing and is that what it’s called?

BlueKota

(4,180 posts)
4. My gut says never,
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 10:09 PM
Apr 3

but if he goes off script in a way the right wing mega donors don't approve of, who knows? Sadly there would still be Vance and Johnson.

Mister Ed

(6,540 posts)
34. Alas, I think the poster meant a Trumpian two weeks.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 12:26 AM
Apr 4

In Trump's first term, he occasionally would promise that some great thing or another would be coming from his administration in two weeks. But "two weeks", like "tomorrow", never seemed to come.

patphil

(7,639 posts)
6. Not until their constituents are hurting so bad that they come after them with torches and pitchforks.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 10:10 PM
Apr 3

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
18. That may not take long. Trump's reputation as good for the economy (with MAGA) will be in tatters.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 11:05 PM
Apr 3

travelingthrulife

(2,003 posts)
62. I don't think these rich people have any clue how quick and easy it is to fall
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 10:03 AM
Apr 4

into poverty and homelessness in this country. Two months without an income can easily do that.

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
68. You are right. This will hit most Americans. 62% of all Americans have stock. Even the wealthy will be badly affected--
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 08:36 AM
Monday

wealthy Investors, business owners, retirees.

Bev54

(12,357 posts)
9. I have seen absolutely nothing that woul
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 10:13 PM
Apr 3

Make me believe these idiot republicans will do anything that is right for the country.

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
16. They could have massive losses. GOP lawmakers could be at war--hardline MAGA against those who want to win elections.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 11:00 PM
Apr 3

Uncle Joe

(61,339 posts)
22. It will be shortly after the GOP has implant surgery for their ever-shrinking Johnson condition.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 11:25 PM
Apr 3

Thanks for the thread Doodley

newdeal2

(2,266 posts)
25. Never
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 11:35 PM
Apr 3

Let’s not go down this fantasy again. He’s not going to jail, he’s not getting thrown out of the White House.

He said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave. Turned out to be true.

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
30. The scale of this self-inflicted economic disaster does not compare to anything before. Never has the MAGA
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 11:51 PM
Apr 3

population been so personally or financially affected as they will by these tariffs.

MrsCheaplaugh

(211 posts)
67. They'll just say it's Biden's fault
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 11:20 AM
Saturday

Or blame it on immigrants, liberals, or lippy women who talk back.

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
73. Trump's approval at the end of his first term was 33 or 34%. He's going to get there again. You have to appreciate the
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 08:58 AM
Monday

enormity of what he has done and how much everyone, including MAGA will suffer. Confidence in Trump among Independents must be heading for an all time low. Trump will be an electoral liability for the whole Republican Party.

lindysalsagal

(22,612 posts)
27. The irony is if they all did it together he'd be gone and they'd be safe
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 11:41 PM
Apr 3

Their districts are so gerrymandered they can never lose their seats.

Bernardo de La Paz

(54,445 posts)
41. This is the thing. They will think about it a long time as conditions get worse
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:14 AM
Apr 4

.... until it hits a tipping point and suddenly there is an avalanche of Rs ready to impeach him. It will probably have to reach some tipping point among maga before the Rs will feel emboldened.

B.See

(5,105 posts)
29. He needs to be removed, alright. But
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 11:49 PM
Apr 3

I wouldn't count on ANY of the MAGAS to have the guts to do so.

That'd involve FAR more courage, integrity, love and DUTY to one's own country than the whole stinking bunch of em could ever possess COLLECTIVELY.

EllieBC

(3,444 posts)
31. Never. They don't want to die.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 11:56 PM
Apr 3

MAGAts are armed and insane. They won’t do anything to put their own necks on the line.

Mariana

(15,489 posts)
74. Exactly.
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:10 AM
Monday

People keep forgetting that MAGAtry is a cult. Most people don’t abandon their religions when bad things happen to them. Very often their faith becomes even stronger.

LudwigPastorius

(12,130 posts)
35. This is not 1974, and there is no Barry Goldwater who will walk into the Oval Office and tell the president...
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 12:28 AM
Apr 4

to resign or face impeachment.

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
40. I would expect it would be more along the lines of a rebelion meaning no legislation could get through, a group of
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:10 AM
Apr 4

GOP lawmakers openly dissing Trump and calling for him to go, growing pressure with mounting tariff-induced inflation and unemployment, opinion polls showing Trump's reputation among MAGAs in tatters, mass protests around the nation, continual bad news for the nation's economy with no end in sight, GOP lawmakers see a devasting mid-term election. Rather than a strongman, Trump would look pathetic. He would be seen as incapable of governing.

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
47. Not necessarily. It could be, but I think the damage he has done is so great, he can't survive.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 09:17 AM
Apr 4

Bernardo de La Paz

(54,445 posts)
42. Not yet. The not 1974 means it will have to become many times worse than 1974 for it to happen. . . .nt
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:15 AM
Apr 4

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
49. Take in the scale of what Trump has done and the direct impact it will have on most Americans. This is unprecedented.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 09:20 AM
Apr 4

Bernardo de La Paz

(54,445 posts)
50. Correct. But the impact is only just putting a toe in the hard data
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 09:30 AM
Apr 4

My thought was that it will have to show up in the hard data in an obvious undeniable way at the same time as it shows up on main street and when people gather at the bowling alley and picking up kids at daycare. Like "I haven't seen Martha for a couple of weeks now, is she okay? Oh, she lost her job then."

Sentiment is way down as revealed by surveys and the stock market (a fast-reacting barometer of future expectations). But a tick up in unemployment from 4.1 to 4.2 might be noise or it might be the toe into the hard data.

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
58. Yes, it will take time. This is the beginning, but it can only get worse from here as the impact of tariffs deepens.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 09:58 AM
Apr 4

A rise in inflation will probably be noticed very quickly and it will get worse. Fear is driving the stock market, fear that we now face a downturn. People will be fearful, even MAGAs. I think the fear will be immediate, even for many MAGAs. MAGAs are immune to or favor a lot of Trump crap, like mass deportations and discrimination, but never has Trump or any president done something on this scale that will hit them where is hurts them personally. I believe that this is literally a lifetime event in terms of the impact on people's lives and finances and in how people the world over view a president. I don't see how Trump can survive this.

Meowmee

(8,471 posts)
38. I would say it won't happen but still hope it will
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:43 AM
Apr 4

The senate just voted to stop tariffs against Canada I think? But the house will block a vote on it is my guess. Why does the executive have this power? Tariffs should have to be voted on, not declared by the executive. Someone who crashed the stock market this many times already would be gone in other major western countries. UK prime minister Truss was gone after 49 days when this happened, the UK is a unitary parliamentary democracy.

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
43. Also a convicted felon can't be an MP or PM in the UK. Shame we don't have any standards!
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:16 AM
Apr 4

Meowmee

(8,471 posts)
46. Yes, I have said that and more so many times... NO standards for who can run for office here
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 04:57 AM
Apr 4

The highest office in the country with way too much power... and even before he was a convicted felon he was inciting violence in his first campaign and zero was done!

BlueTsunami2018

(4,285 posts)
48. Forever and a day.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 09:20 AM
Apr 4

I don’t know why we keep asking these kind of questions.

They’re NEVER going to remove him, censure him or attempt to stop him in any way. Not ever.

Unless…….the cult turns on him which is also never going to happen.

We’re stuck with this shitshow and everything that comes with it.

Doodley

(10,735 posts)
51. What he has done before hasn't changed that the MAGA base think he is the best man for the economy. He has now
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 09:31 AM
Apr 4

flicked a switch and destroyed that. The economy is going to meltdown. There is no good news that will come from this, This isn't a story that will last a week and we move on. Things can only get worse from here as the affect of tariffs and destroying international partnerships pile up. This is people's livelihoods, their savings, their jobs, their ability to feed their family. Trump will lose his authority because too many will realize he's fucked them. GOP will be decimated in the midterms unless Trump goes.

BlueTsunami2018

(4,285 posts)
56. I really don't know.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 09:50 AM
Apr 4

That cult is rock solid. I work with a bunch of Trumpers and they do not care about any of this. They just parrot the company line.

This is Biden’s fault.
A President’s policies don’t really take effect until two years in.
We were due for a correction.
Everything is going to be so much better than it was by December.
He inherited a disaster.

And blah, blah, blah.

They could be standing there wearing a barrel and still think it’s all good.

Omnipresent

(6,817 posts)
55. They would be too embarrassed to remove him.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 09:45 AM
Apr 4

Instead, they might assassinate him and blame Democrats for doing it.

kacekwl

(8,185 posts)
60. Other than the public
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 10:00 AM
Apr 4

dragging his ass out and hanging him in the street it's the only other way.

LuckyCharms

(19,914 posts)
66. When the S&P drops another 40-50%.
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 11:06 AM
Saturday

Which it quite possibly will.

There will be a few up days over the next weeks most likely, but that will just be a dead cat bounce.

The trend is down, and the downtrend will continue when Trump refuses to back off on this insane tariff plan.

Right now, the downturn is due to the sheer shock and uncertainty of his plan.

The decline will continue in the intermediate term due to the actual fallout of the tariffs.

I give Trump no longer than another year.

Happy Hoosier

(8,870 posts)
75. Never... the MAGAt take over over of the GOP is basically complete.
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:11 AM
Monday

WE must rely on their repudiation at the polls... and that our party's leadership recognizes that "normal" is gone for now.

dem4decades

(12,581 posts)
76. They want power, they've got it. They will rid the country of democracy before they rid the country of Trump.
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:17 AM
Monday

Torchlight

(4,507 posts)
77. My guess is just over three and a half years.
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:19 AM
Monday

But my guess won't change the taste of mustard.

Blues Heron

(6,730 posts)
78. 4 weeks tops
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:19 AM
Monday

this lunacy is not sustainable. Now that he is affecting white peoples money, he will be rapidly shown the door.

DFW

(57,702 posts)
79. History will not repeat itself. There will not be another March 15th, 44 B.C.
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:49 AM
Monday

Fox noise will spin it into pretzels and the Trumpanzees will just recite the Republican Golden Rule: If you’re rich, you deserve it. If you’re poor, you deserve it.

The closest the public will ever hear of a serious Republican effort to remove him will be like what happened to Scalia. Trump will be invited to some Republican retreat where no one gets in without thorough vetting, and he experiences a medical emergency which he doesn’t survive. He gets a hero’s funeral while the Congressional Republicans breathe a collective sigh of relief. Vance gets told to play along, or risk early detection of heretofore undetected serious arteriosclerosis.

Aristus

(69,601 posts)
80. Never.
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:54 AM
Monday

If Republicans were capable of admitting they were wrong, we wouldn't have seen their Presidential candidates, since the resignation of the odious Richard Nixon, slide inexorably downward ever since. In 1980, for example, they might have supported John Anderson instead of horoscope/senility boy Ronald Reagan. Bush Sr. at least seemed to know what he was doing, and had a notable record in public service before being tractor-beamed into Reagan's orbit. But even he couldn't overcome the damage done by Reagan's idiotic trickle-down barf-bag economic plan. George W. Bush is the most disastrous nepo baby story in the history of the Presidency. And the less said about Trump, the better.

The Republicans will never remove him from office. It may take a 2nd Amendment solution to do that.

mucholderthandirt

(1,430 posts)
81. In about two or three weeks. When people are freaking out even more, their tax returns haven't come in ...
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 06:33 PM
Monday

Or even been processed yet. Stocks need to drop some more, SS checks stop showing up. Maybe a war in Panama is threatened.

Then Trump will be gone, Vance will be in, and our lord and masters at Project 2025 will begin the real work of stealing America blind, it will just have a nicer, saner face to it.

Either that, or the military will step in, we'll have a nice coup with generals and crap telling us what to do, the militias will shoot their wad and in five or ten years, we might begin to earn back our place in the world.

Or the EU decides to just nuke us, and it's all over but the radioactive fire.

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