What happens after Trump looses?

[marc]

I'm not talking about threats of 'millions of supporters' rioting in the streets if he is not nominated.

I'm talking about say a year or two later. After getting cozy with racists for so long, and offending just about every group he can find, what will that do to the Trump brand? I would think that any future reality shows featuring him would fail so badly that his TV career is done. And that businesses/buildings that use his name will look to how to get out of those contracts, and few new ones looking to take up his brand.

 

[Keith&Co.]

After getting cozy with racists for so long, and offending just about every group he can find, what will that do to the Trump brand?

I expect a lot of 'I never said that' to be broadcast.

And he'll spend the next three years positioning himself as 'the plain spoken guy getting vilified/crucified by the Democrats/libruls/eleet' so 'buy my stuff and vote for me' to show them what this country really wants.

He may be able to do more business as the 2nd place choice, for a lot longer than 2 terms.

 

[Derec]

Depends on what you think he will loose.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

After getting cozy with racists for so long, and offending just about every group he can find, what will that do to the Trump brand?

I expect a lot of 'I never said that' to be broadcast.

And he'll spend the next three years positioning himself as 'the plain spoken guy getting vilified/crucified by the Democrats/libruls/eleet' so 'buy my stuff and vote for me' to show them what this country really wants.

He may be able to do more business as the 2nd place choice, for a lot longer than 2 terms.

I don't know. The type of people who support him don't spend a whole lot of time golfing or staying in luxury hotels. The type of people who despise him, on both sides of the aisle, are his customer base. If I'm a sales guy who's meeting clients, meeting them in a Trump hotel adds an element of risk that they'll be turned off by the venue which doesn't exist at any other location. There are moves in at least a couple of cities I know of to try and get the Trump name removed from buildings there since they don't want the name of such an open racist displayed so prominently in their skyline and that kind of attitude existing puts a major obstacle in the way of his leasing his name for any future buildings.

Being a presidential contender for a couple of months last summer would have been very good for his brand. I don't see how his current run does anything but hurt him, though, unless the company changes direction and the Trump name becomes more associated with $20 knock-off items sold in gas stations or something.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

What will be interesting to see is how the current GOP "leaders" do faced with a Clinton White House. I suspect they GOP may also lose the Senate. There is going to be a rather loud outcry against the rank obstructionism of Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and the Freedom Caucus types. Sanders will be urging his followers to organize to battle the GOP at the state level. To retake the Democratic party in the name of Democratic Socialist principles. Trump may want to try to start a new movement to oust the do-nothing GOP leadership of current GOP party. The Tea party will also be active in picking up the pieces of the GOP. It would be a crazed next two years. Clinton will claim a mandate to move things along and will threaten the GOP with voter booth annihilation if they attempt rank obstructionism as usual. The problem with Trump is he is running a campaign of resentment and a personality cult. He has no overarching principles worth noting, so has nothing to add constructive to any of this. Sanders does, and may be able to lay foundations for a political movement based on the youth vote of today becoming a major political block of the near future.

We are about to embark on a Great Political Realignment, a redefinition of Democratic and Republican party policies and a major realignment of American politics. I really do not see any actual Trump policies that can play much of a part in this except for a distaste for present trade policy and cheap war mongering.
Look for Cruz to try to start a move to taking over the GOP in the name of Christian ultra-conservatism.

 

[dismal]

Depends on what you think he will loose.

When he looses his angry minions.

 

[funinspace]

Depends on what you think he will loose.

When he looses his angry minions.

Maybe he will be cast for the role in the Minions II sequel as the new villain?

Minions 2: In search of the lost Minions

 

[iolo]

To judge by the development of his like elsewhere, he will be trying to organise a military coup.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

To judge by the development of his like elsewhere, he will be trying to organise a military coup.

But what military leaders would follow him?

 

[dismal]

Minions 2: In search of the lost Minions

Not lost, loosed.

 

[iolo]

To judge by the development of his like elsewhere, he will be trying to organise a military coup.

But what military leaders would follow him?

You can usually find some high ranking officers who have missed promotion or whatever. The question is whether the troops have been affected enough to follow them

 

[funinspace]

Minions 2: In search of the lost Minions

Not lost, loosed.

The word play was not lost upon me...I just stuck with intent, as it is a short trip from a cute quip to a spelling/grammar Nazi.

 

[untermensche]

If Trump loses in four years he will still be a year younger than Bernie is now.

He will spend 4 years condemning every move Clinton makes and run again in 2020.

He will move part of his business to cater to his supporters, a non-stop speaking tour, and profit from them.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

 

[marc]

He will spend 4 years condemning every move Clinton makes and run again in 2020.

He will move part of his business to cater to his supporters, a non-stop speaking tour, and profit from them.

Sounds like copying the Sarah Palin path of political influence. Yea, I can see him making money from that for a few years, at the cost of his other scams ventures drying up.

 

[funinspace]

He will spend 4 years condemning every move Clinton makes and run again in 2020.

He will move part of his business to cater to his supporters, a non-stop speaking tour, and profit from them.

Sounds like copying the Sarah Palin path of political influence. Yea, I can see him making money from that for a few years, at the cost of his other scams ventures drying up.

Yep, and the Palin brand is getting close to stall speed.

I'm not sure if Trump thinks he can actually win the Presidency. I certainly didn't think he had a snowballs chance of even winning the Repug primary a few months ago, now the Repug machine barely has wiggle room left to still stop him. Maybe he's thinking of retirement, but his kind don't seem to get into that. Early last fall I wondered if he was doing this to purposely damage the Repugs bad enough help Hillary win. The notion fits well with what he has accomplished, but it seems much less plausible now. If he came out in late October, and said to his minions something like "WTF were you thinking listening to my tirades? I'm voting for Hillary next Tuesday", the Repugs would be thoroughly routed. He would be remembered for a long time in Politics. But sounds pretty unlikely.

If he is serious, then his brand won't recover from him being...well as the Chinese succinctly said recently:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/973564.shtml

At the beginning of the election, Trump, a rich, narcissist and inflammatory candidate, was only treated as an underdog. His job was basically to act as a clown to attract more voters' attention to the GOP. However, knocking down most other promising candidates, the clown is now the biggest dark horse.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Trying to predict Trump is meaningless. We have no idea what he'd do if he doesn't get the nomination. If he lost the General Election, big whoop. I did see an interesting article about how Trump may have trouble paying for a General Election.

 

[funinspace]

Trying to predict Trump is meaningless.

WTF is wrong with you? That is what we do here

 

[cycomiko]

I'm not talking about threats of 'millions of supporters' rioting in the streets if he is not nominated.

I'm talking about say a year or two later. After getting cozy with racists for so long, and offending just about every group he can find, what will that do to the Trump brand? I would think that any future reality shows featuring him would fail so badly that his TV career is done. And that businesses/buildings that use his name will look to how to get out of those contracts, and few new ones looking to take up his brand.

we live in a country where shows are created about rich rednecks who make duck calls, overly religious women who think it's their duty to have as many children as possible, and fat little kids named honey booboo. we create tv shows that are nothing more than a camera man following a celebrity family around and we call it entertainment. you go to the "science" or "history" channel and see shows about pawn shops and silly speculation about whether bigfoot or aliens exists.

i think trump has a bright future in television since the same idiots that are voting for him, are the people watching all these shows.

maybe some combination of the voice and the apprentice? or survivor where the people are being hunted by the donald?

 

[braces_for_impact]

His brand is already suffering. I predicted as much some time ago; and it will continue to suffer. There would be a special, glowing kind of schadenfreude if he became one of the poor people he seems to despise. I doubt he'd sink quite that low though. But, the man honestly doesn't have that great of a business sense, so one can always hope.