Trump 2024?

[ZiprHead]

The new center of Trump's political world: Palm Beach - POLITICO

n anticipation of Trump setting up permanent residence at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach after leaving the White House in January, Trump allies, conservative media firebrands and MAGA-boosting activist groups are setting up the next Trumpy hub of GOP power.

Some Trump supporters have settled in South Florida, drawn by Florida’s friendly tax climate and the state’s current GOP leadership. Other prominent MAGA groups, like the student organizing outfit Turning Point USA, are holding events in the area. And the next Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual gathering of the GOP’s most conservative factions, will even be held a couple hours drive north, in Orlando.

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Taken together, the moves will inevitably make the Palm Beach area and Florida ground zero for the MAGA movement, giving Trump convenient access to potential donors and some of his most devoted allies as he plots a potential 2024 comeback bid. Unlike previous presidents, like Barack Obama and George W. Bush, who quietly entered their post-presidency and spent time working on their books or picking up oil painting, Trump is expected to cannonball into his next chapter by keeping a hold on his political base with the help of his family, antagonizing the Biden administration on Twitter, and holding MAGA events. Supporters will continue to flock to Palm Beach, even as it grates on many long-time residents, who see their locale as a quiet enclave above politics and are fighting the president over a permanent move to Mar-a-Lago.

What kind of a career might he have? Would he become a talk-show host? I'm trying to think of something that would keep him visible.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

What kind of a career might he have? Would he become a talk-show host? I'm trying to think of something that would keep him visible.

What would he consider worthy of a president (or him)? Could there be anything?

Boy Orange could never become a conservative talk show host as he gets frustrated too easily simply because he isn't very smart and tends to shit his pants on command. He's an asset to progressive causes if we can just keep him flapping his mouth. It's no accident that conservatives lost the WH, didn't regain the House and may very well lose the Senate. We can thank Orange Mouth for this.

 

[Elixir]

What kind of a career might he have? Would he become a talk-show host? I'm trying to think of something that would keep him visible.

What would he consider worthy of a president (or him)? Could there be anything?

I'm thinking standing tall in his 3" lift shoes in front of a firing squad would be a classic "leader" pose... I'm sure a lot of people would watch. Best ratings EV-ERRRR.

 

[Keith&Co.]

What kind of a career might he have? Would he become a talk-show host? I'm trying to think of something that would keep him visible.

What would he consider worthy of a president (or him)? Could there be anything?

I'm thinking standing tall in his 3" lift shoes in front of a firing squad would be a classic "leader" pose... I'm sure a lot of people would watch. Best ratings EV-ERRRR.

Not a firing squad. Shooting gallery.
Pay $500 to shoot one BB at him as he stumbles down a ramp 30 feet from the gallery.
For $1000, you get two BBs to shoot at the shooters from 50 feet away, giving the idiot cover fire.
For $2000, you can run the supermagnet over him to pull out the BBs that hit.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Boy Orange could never become a conservative talk show host as he gets frustrated too easily simply because he isn't very smart and tends to shit his pants on command.

He'd have to have a critical but very short, non-interactive role. Someone else takes the guest thru their paces, then we cut to commentary by Trump. Like Statler and Waldorf, maybe?
Isolated, off to the side of events, but center-camera. Interchangeable commentary, they could film his reaction shots gor the week in one morning.

 

[fromderinside]

Orange crap.

 

[Elixir]

Orange crap.

You mean pimping Tang™ for the Space Force?

 

[Politesse]

What kind of a career might he have? Would he become a talk-show host? I'm trying to think of something that would keep him visible.

President-in-exile. He has never so much as suggested that he would consider stepping down from his current role. Which, of course, he barely performs. But he'll continue doing the same things: rallying, tweeting, giving people in the GOP vague and contradictory marching orders. He'll just be doing it without official power, and as now, only a fifth of the government will recognize his authority to give those orders.

 

[TomC]

FTFY

Could be both, but a fake political career can be paid with by campaign donations. If he did a media company... well... he can't he doesn't have the cash. He could appear on OANN, maybe get his name branded on the channel, but that'd be about it.

I remember when Trump was so rich he didn't need campaign donations.

Of course, I also remember when Trump had evidence that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.

Tom

 

[southernhybrid]

I don't think Trump will be in any condition to run in 2024, but I did see my first "Trump 2024" sign today. Sheesh. Some people really don't want to leave the cult.

I'm wondering if the rest of the Trump signs will come down after Biden is inaugurated on the 20th. There was a sign about a mile from my house that read: "Never Hillary" that was only taken down after Biden won the primaries. I live near a bunch of lunatics!

 

[lpetrich]

Without Donald Trump to kick around, 2021 just won’t be the same for the mainstream media | Mulshine - nj.com

Richard Nixon's "Last Press Conference" -- 55 Years Ago - after being defeated in his run for President, RN ran for Governor of California in 1962. He lost, and in his "last press conference", he announced that "you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore". Six years after that flounce, he ran for President again and won.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Is it safe for me to believe that the Orange Inciter in Chief's chances of being elected in 2024 are seriously impaired after today's events at the capitol?

 

[lpetrich]

Trump to flee Washington and seek rehabilitation in a MAGA oasis: Florida - The Washington Post

President Trump will leave Washington this week politically wounded, silenced on social media and essentially unwelcome in his lifelong hometown of New York.

By migrating instead to Palm Beach, Fla., Trump plans to inhabit an alternative reality of adoration and affirmation. The defeated president will take up residence at his gilded Mar-a-Lago Club, where dues-paying members applaud him whenever he eats meals or mingles on the deck. He is sure to take in the same celebratory fervor whenever he plays golf at one of the two Trump-branded courses nearby.

Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy and one of Trump's friends and a Mar-a-Lago member:

“We don’t know what legal issues are going to arise, but discounting those, I think he’s going to remain a global force,” Ruddy said. “I think he’s going to like being post-president more than he liked being president, because you have a lot of the perks without as many of the restrictions.”

Trump may have imagined a mischief-making, mega-rally farewell — complete with a tease about reclaiming the White House in 2024 — to draw attention from President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration and to remind fellow Republicans that he still rules the roost.

But there will be no such grand departure in the wake of the Capitol insurrection.

Has he recognized that he has thoroughly cooked his goose there?

Instead of stating his achievements in his final days,

Rather, Trump has been consumed with anger over his impeachment Wednesday by the House for inciting the Capitol riot, advisers said. He is also upset by the silence from many of his most vigorous defenders, and is nursing feelings of betrayal from Republican congressional leaders, they said.

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Some aides have tried to explain to Trump that these and many other members of Congress are angry about the attack and scared for their lives, but the president has often returned to his popularity among Republican voters in their districts and has shown no remorse for his role in the riot, two officials said.

He seems antisocial. Biographer Michael D'Antonio:

“This is the end that he would have scripted for himself, actually,” D’Antonio said. “He has always imagined himself as an embattled person. He’s talked about life itself being a constant struggle for survival and how he’s surrounded by enemies . . . that the world conspires against him and that he is a lonely hero who is underappreciated and besieged.”

Where is conservatives' outrage? They are always complaining about people calling themselves victims, but when it's Trump calling himself a victim, all they do is express their love for him.

 

[jab]

Trump to flee Washington and seek rehabilitation in a MAGA oasis: Florida - The Washington Post

Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy and one of Trump's friends and a Mar-a-Lago member:

Has he recognized that he has thoroughly cooked his goose there?

Instead of stating his achievements in his final days,

Rather, Trump has been consumed with anger over his impeachment Wednesday by the House for inciting the Capitol riot, advisers said. He is also upset by the silence from many of his most vigorous defenders, and is nursing feelings of betrayal from Republican congressional leaders, they said.

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Some aides have tried to explain to Trump that these and many other members of Congress are angry about the attack and scared for their lives, but the president has often returned to his popularity among Republican voters in their districts and has shown no remorse for his role in the riot, two officials said.

He seems antisocial. Biographer Michael D'Antonio:

“This is the end that he would have scripted for himself, actually,” D’Antonio said. “He has always imagined himself as an embattled person. He’s talked about life itself being a constant struggle for survival and how he’s surrounded by enemies . . . that the world conspires against him and that he is a lonely hero who is underappreciated and besieged.”

Where is conservatives' outrage? They are always complaining about people calling themselves victims, but when it's Trump calling himself a victim, all they do is express their love for him.

a lame duck cooking a goose, while performing a swan song and like an ostrich trying to hide his head in the sand.

 

[lpetrich]

Trump to leave Washington on morning of Biden's inauguration

Refusing to abide by tradition and participate in the ceremonial transfer of power, Trump will instead hold his own departure ceremony at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland before his final flight aboard Air Force One.

Officials are considering an elaborate send-off event reminiscent of the receptions he’s received during state visits abroad, complete with a red carpet, color guard, military band and even a 21-gun salute, according to a person familiar with the planning who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement.

Trump will become only the fourth president in history to boycott his successor’s inauguration. And while he has said he is now committed to a peaceful transition of power — after months of trying to delegitimize Biden’s victory with baseless allegations of mass voter fraud and spurring on his supporters who stormed the Capitol — he has made clear he has no interest in making a show of it.

So he is a sore loser who wants to hold on to the bitter end. As to that sendoff event, I'm sure that he'll enjoy that last bit of Presidential ceremony. Seems to me that Trump wants the position of the Presidency without being willing to do the work of the Presidency.


The Latest: Pence, in call to Harris, offers congratulations - seems like a much better loser.

 

[blastula]

Looks like Trump is the frontrunner right now for the GQP. Nikki Haley, who at first spoke against Trump after 1/6 is now back on board.

Is there anyone more pathetic than Nikki Haley? - Opinion by Max Boot - Wapo

She has a long history of flip flopping on Trump.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Looks like Trump is the frontrunner right now for the GQP. Nikki Haley, who at first spoke against Trump after 1/6 is now back on board.

Is there anyone more pathetic than Nikki Haley? - Opinion by Max Boot - Wapo

She has a long history of flip flopping on Trump.

Political whores survive elections. Haley wants to be elected.

 

[lpetrich]

Our Way-Too-Early 2024 Republican Presidential Primary Draft | FiveThirtyEight

The panelists and their candidates in order:

• Geoffrey Skelley -- Fmr Pres Donald Trump -- Fox cmtr Tucker Carlson -- fmr Secy State Mike Pompeo -- cmtr Candace Owens
• Nathaniel Rakich -- TX Sen Ted Cruz -- SC Sen Tim Scott -- TX Gov Greg Abbott -- FL Sen Rick Scott
• Alex Samuels -- FL Gov Ron DeSantis -- MO Sen Josh Hawley -- AR Sen Tom Cotton -- NY Rep Elise Stefanik
• Nate Silver -- Fmr UN Amb Nikki Haley -- SD Gov Kristi Noem -- Ivanka Trump -- AZ Gov Doug Ducey
• Sarah Frostenson -- Fmr VP Mike Pence -- Donald Trump Jr -- FL Sen Marco Rubio -- GA Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene

Here are the results of a poll of attendees of the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Percent who prefer each candidate:

• Donald Trump: 55
• Ron DeSantis: 21
• Kristi Noem 4
• Nikki Haley 3
• Mike Pompeo 2
• Ted Cruz 2
• Rand Paul 2
• Tucker Carlson 1
• Josh Hawley 1
• Mike Pence 1
• Tim Scott 1
• Ben Carson 1
• Marco Rubio 1
• Tom Cotton 0.4
• Mitt Romney 0.3
• Rick Scott 0.2
• John Kasich 0.1
• Larry Hogan 0.1
• Chris Christie 0
• Charlie Baker 0
• Greg Abbott 0
• Other 3
• Undecided 1

Ron DeSantis? Kristi Noem?

 

[Gospel]

Good luck winning under the republican ticket. The minority is in agreement with them and that's how it will be into the distant future. Not even gerrymandering will save their asses. They'll need to get back to Jesus & act like Reagan was the most recent republican president to change the tide rising against them. These morons have no idea, just the other day I asked my wife and her pastor (both hard core evangellicals) their thoughts on how their parties leadership is representing them and they both replied "Jesus represents me". lol, it used to be the republicans are the party of god.

 

[lpetrich]

Some related threads:

• 2024 Presidential Election Campaigns
• 2024 Republican Presidential Candidates

The second one contains this list of candidates, from Opinion | The 2024 race begins for Republicans on Nov. 4 - The Washington Post
Opinion | The 2024 race begins for Republicans on Nov. 4 - The Washington Post - speculated about nearly a month before that date by author Hugh Hewitt

I have merged that list and the recent 538 list:

• HH, 538:
  • Fmr Pres Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump
  • Fmr VP Mike Pence, Fmr Sec'y of State Mike Pompeo, Fmr UN Amb SC Gov Nikki Haley
  • AR Sen Tom Cotton, TX Sen Ted Cruz, MO Sen Josh Hawley, SC Sen Tim Scott, FL Sen Rick Scott, FL Sen Marco Rubio
  • TX Gov Greg Abbott, FL Gov Ron DeSantis, SD Gov Kristi Noem, AZ Gov Doug Ducey
• HH:
  • Fmr Dir Nat'l Intel Richard Grenell, WH Chf Stf NC Rep Mark Meadows, Nat'l Sec Adv Robert C. O'Brien
  • NE Sen Ben Sasse, PA Sen Patrick Toomey
  • TX Rep Dan Crenshaw
• 538:
  • NY Rep Elise Stefanik, GA Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene
  • Cmtr Tucker Carlson, Cmtr Candace Owens