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MineralMan

(150,838 posts)
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 12:52 PM Dec 26

Trump Seems to Be Having a Bad End of the Year

Truly. He has resorted to machine-gunning posts on his social media laughing-stock site. He has attacked Nigerian people for a poorly-stated reason, putting our military to work doing his will.

His poll numbers are dropping like a stone. He is becoming more and more inarticulate in his speech. He is walking poorly and has to sit down to give speeches.

He's just flat not doing well.

Not too long ago, I made a prediction that he would resign before the end of the year. That led to a lot of laughter at my presumptuousness. I still see that as a possibility, although I think it may take a little longer for him to finally cave in and do it. but, I think he's still going to do exactly that soon, if he doesn't simply keel over one day soon.

My hopes continue to be strong about this.

Here's my original prediction:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20804424

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Trump Seems to Be Having a Bad End of the Year (Original Post) MineralMan Dec 26 OP
.... Tanuki Dec 26 #1
I sure hope so. cksmithy Dec 26 #2
I know! And ain't it grand! It's the Ghost of Christmas Future and it is on his tail! marble falls Dec 26 #3
"Bah," said Scrooge. "Humbug." MineralMan Dec 26 #5
... just before Marley showed up, followed by reality. marble falls Dec 26 #10
That Christmas Day Meltdown was one for the record books Coldwater Dec 26 #4
Bravo flashman13 Dec 26 #25
Not bad enough for my liking. GoCubsGo Dec 26 #6
Be careful what you wish for. MineralMan Dec 26 #8
That's why I qualified it with GoCubsGo Dec 26 #9
The problem is: Trump Don't Care. MineralMan Dec 26 #12
Maybe. Maybe not. It is alleged he had a toy button his last term. marble falls Dec 26 #11
But, he has a "Toy Soldier" as his Secretary of "War." MineralMan Dec 26 #14
No batteries, the Toy Soldier runs on alcohol and war reverie. marble falls Dec 26 #16
Bravo! MorbidButterflyTat Dec 26 #55
It needs to get worse. Here's hoping. Ocelot II Dec 26 #7
I really feel like he'll blurt out the n word before it's over. ms liberty Dec 26 #27
Needs to stay alive long enough to hear the clang of the prison door shut on him. nt Hotler Dec 26 #13
Frankly, That's the Least of My Concerns. MineralMan Dec 26 #15
The lid on a casket.... SergeStorms Dec 26 #22
The Antichrist will double down w/evil in order to obtain everlasting fame. He has no good in him. He's using AnotherMother4Peace Dec 26 #17
It couldn't happen to a less empathetic wanna be King or to a more despicable, soulless human being, surfered Dec 26 #18
There is a saying Keepthesoulalive Dec 26 #19
Not bad enough, I fear... hlthe2b Dec 26 #20
He's "wagging the dog" all over the place..... SergeStorms Dec 26 #21
He will not resign. He may flee. Wild blueberry Dec 26 #23
after what that monster has done to this world orleans Dec 26 #24
It's well deserved. greatauntoftriplets Dec 26 #26
A bad year???? bdamomma Dec 27 #58
He won't step aside voluntarily. cab67 Dec 26 #28
...simply KEELING over would be my choice for him. liberalla Dec 26 #29
He needs to go to prison cleaning black and brown mens toilets. The traitor needs to pay!!! tazcat Dec 26 #30
At the current rate of deterioration, I give him six months max. We could start a pool on the date he crashes out. flashman13 Dec 26 #31
You're observations are spot on BUT the marmalade shartcannon will NEVER willingly resign Brother Buzz Dec 26 #32
Perhaps, but there is a way for him to rationalize quitting. MineralMan Dec 26 #35
It would take some extraordinary fiction to explain a scorched earth departure Brother Buzz Dec 26 #47
You are correct. OldBaldy1701E Dec 26 #43
February 2nd, Groundhogs Day... MiHale Dec 26 #33
Theres a group of Tarot readers and astrologers who say no later the Feb 3. slightlv Dec 26 #40
Your OP title needs to be shortened by three words. /nt bucolic_frolic Dec 26 #34
My sister has a psychic friend who said he'll be gone.. ananda Dec 26 #36
That's Encouraging. MineralMan Dec 26 #37
Well, there's 5 days left. ananda Dec 26 #48
I hope he doesn't resign.. Permanut Dec 26 #38
LOL! That's the ticket, right there. MineralMan Dec 26 #41
Come on now ABC123Easy Dec 26 #39
Oh, OK. Never mind... MineralMan Dec 26 #42
Polls dropping like a stone ? Tetrachloride Dec 26 #44
I doubt he will resign . . . AverageOldGuy Dec 26 #45
One doctor said at the rate Dump is declining from dementia, he gave him 5 months LymphocyteLover Dec 26 #46
End of the year might be a little soon, but I doubt he finishes his term. D23MIURG23 Dec 26 #49
hemorrhoidectomy Dave in VA Dec 26 #50
Kave or Keel? 🤔 sprinkleeninow Dec 26 #51
that narcissistic POS would NEVER resign Skittles Dec 26 #52
Unless he can make it his choice MineralMan Dec 26 #53
Well, i just have to disagree here. I'm thinking i have a maybe 50% chance of being right, and you also have a 50% bluestarone Dec 26 #54
Like bdamomma Dec 26 #56
Yeah, I've noticed those daily posts. MineralMan Dec 27 #57

ms liberty

(11,063 posts)
27. I really feel like he'll blurt out the n word before it's over.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 02:19 PM
Dec 26

Probably to a reporter who is female.

MineralMan

(150,838 posts)
15. Frankly, That's the Least of My Concerns.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 01:23 PM
Dec 26

First and foremost is: Get him out of the White House!

SergeStorms

(20,200 posts)
22. The lid on a casket....
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 02:03 PM
Dec 26

never opens again. I'd rather hear that than a cell door clanging shut. There are too many bought-and-paid-for judges who can open that cell door for him. Not so with the coffin lid. 😁
Just my opinion, of course.

AnotherMother4Peace

(5,067 posts)
17. The Antichrist will double down w/evil in order to obtain everlasting fame. He has no good in him. He's using
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 01:34 PM
Dec 26

this Holy Season to double down on his evil actions. He's becoming demented and will increasingly lean on the evil people in his command.

surfered

(12,310 posts)
18. It couldn't happen to a less empathetic wanna be King or to a more despicable, soulless human being,
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 01:44 PM
Dec 26

But don’t get me started.

Keepthesoulalive

(2,175 posts)
19. There is a saying
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 01:45 PM
Dec 26

We will not know the day nor the time. But when the inevitable happens this old lady is going to hurt herself busting a move.

hlthe2b

(113,168 posts)
20. Not bad enough, I fear...
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 01:54 PM
Dec 26

If there is anything short of an acute, devastating health event, I firmly believe he will stop at NOTHING to exact revenge on whomever he perceives is causing him distress--even if it hurts his family and even HIMSELF in the aftermath. I don't think he can move past the perceived "release" from DOING the act, no matter how harmful, and that might well include devastating incitements of war. Pulling the US from NATO? Tactical nukes against his latest country target? Who knows, but I certainly don't think he would stop at the warnings from whoever is left around him.

Honestly, if he had any true patriots around him who remain so, I'd hope they would step in. Maybe if he NEEDS medication (dementia symptom reduction, for example-consensus of his physicians) that he refuses, there would be some means to get him to take it. No. I certainly am not even remotely suggesting someone harm him medically...But, he might well refuse medication that maintains his "sanity," and emotional "controls"--whatever is left

But I fear anything short of a devastating personal health event that precludes his acting in retaliation puts us all at immense risk in the coming days, weeks, and months.

SergeStorms

(20,200 posts)
21. He's "wagging the dog" all over the place.....
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 01:58 PM
Dec 26

trying to get the Epstein heat off himself. It isn't going to work, Krasnov. Might as well die soon. Very soon!

orleans

(36,732 posts)
24. after what that monster has done to this world
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 02:11 PM
Dec 26

i hope he has a horrible time for the rest of his ugly, deranged, murderous, perverted life

and for everyone's sake i hope it doesn't drag on much longer

cab67

(3,664 posts)
28. He won't step aside voluntarily.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 02:23 PM
Dec 26

He would see that as an acknowledgment of weakness and loss of power. He cannot tolerate that.

The only way to get him out of office while he's alive is to 25th him, and I can't see the current cabinet doing that.

Impeachment is highly unlikely; even if Democrats take the Senate next year, their majority won't be big enough

liberalla

(10,920 posts)
29. ...simply KEELING over would be my choice for him.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 02:24 PM
Dec 26

Preferably on camera!

It might be the first honest, honorable and dignified thing he's done in his life.
Let's just end this chapter and get on with repairing and healing America.

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We'll still have the trump STAIN for centuries!

flashman13

(2,211 posts)
31. At the current rate of deterioration, I give him six months max. We could start a pool on the date he crashes out.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 02:34 PM
Dec 26

Brother Buzz

(39,693 posts)
32. You're observations are spot on BUT the marmalade shartcannon will NEVER willingly resign
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 02:36 PM
Dec 26

Resigning would be admitting failure, and the ass is hardwired to NEVER admit a single mistake.

That being said, the men behind the curtain may have other plans.

MineralMan

(150,838 posts)
35. Perhaps, but there is a way for him to rationalize quitting.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 02:43 PM
Dec 26

How that works is that you believe that you are "owning the people" by removing yourself. Since you are the only hope, you think, that will be a hard blow for people to take, you think.

Sort of the "I'm taking my ball and going home, you losers. You'll be sorry!" We've all seen people do that.

Brother Buzz

(39,693 posts)
47. It would take some extraordinary fiction to explain a scorched earth departure
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 03:36 PM
Dec 26

But if it parks the ass in the weeds, barking through that dying truth social thingy, I’m OK with it

OldBaldy1701E

(10,623 posts)
43. You are correct.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 03:30 PM
Dec 26

He won't and they do.

That is what worries me the most. Their 'second act' plans.

MiHale

(12,748 posts)
33. February 2nd, Groundhogs Day...
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 02:38 PM
Dec 26

Got that date in a dead pool. Can’t go through this again.

ananda

(34,586 posts)
36. My sister has a psychic friend who said he'll be gone..
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 02:51 PM
Dec 26

by the end of the year.

My sister thought she was being optimistic,
but you never know.

Here's hoping!

MineralMan

(150,838 posts)
37. That's Encouraging.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 02:58 PM
Dec 26

I'm far from being a psychic, but Trump is definitely a psychopath. If he gets it into his head that he can say, "That'll show them!," it might just work to get him the hell out of the White House. Maybe. I hope.

ABC123Easy

(134 posts)
39. Come on now
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 03:10 PM
Dec 26

The prerequisites to incite him to resign are either 1- a conscious (ability to feel shame) or 2- some kind of criminal charges agreed to disappear with his resignation. 1 is laughable, not gonna happen, 2 would require an independent DOJ....again laughable.

AverageOldGuy

(3,545 posts)
45. I doubt he will resign . . .
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 03:31 PM
Dec 26

. . . unless absolutely forced out by the 25th Amendment and/or with his dementia becoming too much for even the MAGAts.

I'm hoping he just croaks and the sooner the better. I know, that will give us JD but he has nowhere near the following as Trump.

LymphocyteLover

(9,546 posts)
46. One doctor said at the rate Dump is declining from dementia, he gave him 5 months
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 03:34 PM
Dec 26

until he passes and that was about a month ago... FWIW

D23MIURG23

(3,138 posts)
49. End of the year might be a little soon, but I doubt he finishes his term.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 04:35 PM
Dec 26

Between losing popularity, losing his stranglehold on the GOP, and losing his health, the knives are going to come out for him eventually. The same people who wouldn't dare say a word in opposition to him will try to hang the policies they greenlit around his neck like a millstone, and send him to the bottom of the ocean.

MineralMan

(150,838 posts)
53. Unless he can make it his choice
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 05:28 PM
Dec 26

And go out like he won. Narcissists have to feel like they won, whether they did or not. It's all what he believes. They can rationalize almost anything.

bluestarone

(21,621 posts)
54. Well, i just have to disagree here. I'm thinking i have a maybe 50% chance of being right, and you also have a 50%
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 05:28 PM
Dec 26

chance of being right. So only thing i can do is disagree. Guess we'll see who is right. BTW, the only reason i disagree is this MONSTER doesn't give a dam about anybody else period. Maybe health wise, but i think he will last most of the NEXT year at the earliest.

MineralMan

(150,838 posts)
57. Yeah, I've noticed those daily posts.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 10:04 AM
Dec 27

I don't participate in them, though. I think that's a bad idea.

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