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By Walt Zlotow
Karma is coming for President Trump. June 16 marks 10 years since he descended the Trump Tower escalator and defiled the American presidency by running on a platform to rid America of imaginary rapists and murderers invading America.
Trump’s pathology and delusion, never before seen on the American presidential stage, resonated with enough disaffected voters to achieve the presidency. It was on display throughout his term. Two stark examples:
Both put his pathology and delusion were on irrefutable display for all to see and comprehend.
Yet his diabolical charismatic genius for not only holding his cult together, but widely expanding it, enabled him to avoid prison for a multitude of crimes, and win an even larger reelection victory.
But eight years after first taking office, Trump’s mental decline has accelerated noticeably. His pronouncements and actions are causing chaos on every aspect of American governance including the economy, law enforcement, adherence to the Constitution, immigration, administering the commons, foreign policy to name six.
There are two likely scenarios for Trump to be out of office by the end of his first year, January 20, 2026. Neither involves his passing or physical incapacity.
The first involves his removal as acting president under the 25th Amendment.
It is foreseeable that Vice President Vance and a majority of the cabinet will seek to remove Trump as president under that Amendment due to his deteriorated mental condition making him unfit to serve. If so, this will mark the first time this drastic measure to save America from presidential governing collapse would be invoked since its passage in 1967.
There is one other scenario that could occur before the end of year one: Trump himself could comprehend he is so mentally debilitated that he will resign the presidency. This could be facilitated by a family intervention. He would have nothing to lose as he’s virtually immune from ever facing indictment, prosecution imprisonment for any crimes past, present or future. With Vance in the presidency possessing pardoning power, Trump will never will get the justice he deserves.
If either scenario comes to pass as predicted, January 20, 2026, will dawn with the most dangerous man of the 46 who have served the presidency, thankfully and finally off the public stage he has defiled every day of his five years in office.
Walt Zlotow
Glen Ellyn IL
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Will Vance be any better?
A third scenario: America houses hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of individuals who own enough weapons to open their own gun shops. Many of these individuals sit within the semi-lunatic fringes of that semi-lunatic society. It's an attested fact that many Americans are characterised by their paranoia, hatreds, anger and suspicions. It's not inconceivable that history might repeat itself and one of these deranged citizens might take it upon himself, either solo or goaded by a disgruntled & unemployed former security person - ex CIA or FBI - who's been sacked by Trump/Musk, to take the final option of removing Trump from the land of the living.
Vance will be worse in many respects. The only positive thing you can say is that he would at least be intelligible when speaking.
Apricot Anusmouth won't voluntarily step down; his ego is too big to do that. I can see him being quietly retired when his mental decline becomes so great that even the cult members notice. But they'll create a nice little conspiracy theory to blame the Democrats and "the libs" for it.
The puppeteers won't let him step aside, or be taken down. They'll be contsantly refining the scripts for him, whilst taking his shifting personna into account. America is in dire straights financially and morally because the puppeteers have been brainwashing and propagandizing the vulnerable (patriotic) American public for a century or more.
The vast wealth of the puppeteers will not see them held back. To them, they'd prefer idiosyncratic America does not continue to crumble, but in the long run, they can shift their wealth at a moment's notice. So for the time being they're not likely to stop pressing America, China, and the rest of the world in a bid to bolster their coffers.
Trump may be weird, but for delinquent America he's only a new phenomena on the surface.
Such wishful thinking!! My wishful thinking is that he will complete his full term and thoroughly trash the USA in the process. The trashing will involve the damage to the scientific and intellectual strength of the nation, and hence to its "defence" capability. This last is most important. It is through this that the USA has continued to bully and cow the rest of the world, so that it can pillage their resources. At times this has involved the direct instigation of coups to encourage "regime change" in the interests of the US oligarchs (e.g. Chile, Iraq etc.). If the US "defence" capability is sufficiently eroded, the rest of the world will get on with their lives without US interference.
Too much to hope for I know, but we can all wish!