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Bobstandard

(1,775 posts)
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 07:47 PM Sep 2024

What if dementia is Trumps's exit strategy?

Trump knows he’s done for in the courts if loses the election. He’ll have to sit through endless proceedings or be jailed outright. No kind of life for Trump.

Trump is no fool (oh stop it).He’s thinking about alternate endings. Maybe he figures an acceptable outcome is the quiet life of a mental patient in home care at Mar a Lago. Maybe he’s playing his own version of multi level chess and is simultaneously trying to steal the election, AND developing an insanity or diminished capacity defense .

His base doesn’t care that he appears to be declining, that he’s displaying signs of incipient dementia. They see it as schtick. He knows this.

Normals see that schtick as classic symptoms of a number of disorders, including dementia. Dementia is a disease. We treat people with mental disorders differently, with compassion.

What if Trump is banking on that compassion to result in sentencing that takes his ‘condition’ into account and remands him to some kind of mental disorder treatment facility. And eventually to in-home care with only the best therapists, doctors, and nurses, at some nice, secure facility appropriate for the compassionate confinement of an ex President. You know, someplace like Mar a Lago. Doctor Ronnie Jackson in attendance.

What if Donald Trump’s recent ramping up the crazy is all part of a nefarious back up plan. It’s brilliant really. Ramping up the crazy works for his base. It also works to establish a dementia defense.

At this point we know anything is possible. We know that Trump is a wily bastard. It makes sense for us to suppose that he’s got an exit strategy. This one is at least as plausible as escape to a glamorous penthouse in Abu Dhabi, or somewhat less grand accommodations in Venezuela.

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What if dementia is Trumps's exit strategy? (Original Post) Bobstandard Sep 2024 OP
Okay PJMcK Sep 2024 #1
Agree. He's not crafty. Wily, though... Bobstandard Sep 2024 #3
Interesting theory. Irish_Dem Sep 2024 #2
LOL. You'd change your mind if... Bobstandard Sep 2024 #4
Well of course facts would cause me to re-examine my hypothesis. Irish_Dem Sep 2024 #5
Exit? Mz Pip Sep 2024 #6
Mafia Don Vince "the Chin" Gigante C0RI0LANUS Sep 2024 #7
Why would he do that????? LeftInTX Sep 2024 #10
Beat me to it. That's who came up for me, too. Stinky The Clown Sep 2024 #14
You'll get me next time! C0RI0LANUS Sep 2024 #15
All he wants to do is win. After that he isn't going to care Klarkashton Sep 2024 #8
There have been 1,000,000,000 Trump exit strategies posted. LeftInTX Sep 2024 #9
Hopefully rigorous testing would be applied to him by top doctors. chowder66 Sep 2024 #11
He doesn't need an "exit" strategy. onenote Sep 2024 #12
Your scenario is why more likely Bobstandard Sep 2024 #13
His ego would never allow it JoseBalow Sep 2024 #16
This. Plus his father had dementia and he's probably been afraid it would happen to him as well. scipan Sep 2024 #17

PJMcK

(23,229 posts)
1. Okay
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 07:51 PM
Sep 2024

Good plan.

Do you think Trump is really that crafty? I don’t.

He has repeatedly confessed to his various crimes on tv!

He’s an idiot. He can’t plan his lunch menu.

Bobstandard

(1,775 posts)
3. Agree. He's not crafty. Wily, though...
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 08:24 PM
Sep 2024

He’s slipped through so many cracks in the system for so long that we’re forced to admit, he’s pretty good at what he does. I think he goes into projects and situations thinking, of course, about ‘what’s in it for me?’. At the same time, I think, he’s considering how he’ll shirk responsibility if this or that goes wrong.

So not crafty. Maybe not wily. But thinking about an exit strategy? I’m pretty sure yes.

It’s fun to speculate what it or they might be. As in a Tom Clancy or Lee Childs thriller.

Irish_Dem

(61,976 posts)
2. Interesting theory.
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 07:52 PM
Sep 2024

He is a narcissistic sociopath.

Pulling this kind of con would be typical of a sociopath.

But narcissists hate to do anything deliberately that will make them look bad or cause humiliation.

I also don't think he is that good of an actor.
And he is lazy.

So I think not.
But anything is possible with Trump and his staff.

Bobstandard

(1,775 posts)
4. LOL. You'd change your mind if...
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 08:35 PM
Sep 2024

You’d change your mind if it turned out that ‘the dementia defense’ turned out to be the plan! Right? I know. The notion is so absurd it made me laugh.

Your arguments are persuasive.

Irish_Dem

(61,976 posts)
5. Well of course facts would cause me to re-examine my hypothesis.
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 08:44 PM
Sep 2024

This is how science works.

As you get more data, you change, modify, or even discard your theory.

Right now I am speculating in an educated way based upon clinical research
about how the personality disorders behave and interact with others. And a
psychological profile of Trump which includes his adult functional level and history.
And family reports.

C0RI0LANUS

(2,554 posts)
7. Mafia Don Vince "the Chin" Gigante
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 08:47 PM
Sep 2024

The mafia don would wander around aimlessly in Little Italy in a bathrobe and pajamas as an insanity defense.



Source:

https://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/04/07/gigante/

LeftInTX

(31,823 posts)
9. There have been 1,000,000,000 Trump exit strategies posted.
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 08:49 PM
Sep 2024

If you are correct, you will win $1billion USD

onenote

(44,907 posts)
12. He doesn't need an "exit" strategy.
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 09:19 PM
Sep 2024

Last edited Mon Sep 9, 2024, 10:29 PM - Edit history (1)

Assuming -- and let's all hope we're right -- he loses. And he fails to overturn the result. His trials move forward. They will take a long time--particularly with appeals. So before he faces any kind of justice it will be quite a while. And I'm sure he is convinced he will prevail in the long run because of the Supreme Court. In the meantime, he's out free except for on those days he has to be in a courtroom. When he's not in a courtroom, he's out holding rallies, soaking in the love of his maniacal fanatics, spewing his lies, playing the victim and, most importantly, scamming them out of money for nonsense merchandise and "legal fund" donations.

Bobstandard

(1,775 posts)
13. Your scenario is why more likely
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 10:26 PM
Sep 2024

He’ll be happy staying in the pubic eye so he can continue his pity party, and keep grifting off his followers.

JoseBalow

(6,180 posts)
16. His ego would never allow it
Tue Sep 10, 2024, 02:35 AM
Sep 2024

He has spent his entire life building up a delusional facade of what he believes is perfection. To deliberately try to tear that down goes against every fiber of his pathetic self-absorbed being.

Someone else, maybe. But drumpf? Impossible.

scipan

(2,701 posts)
17. This. Plus his father had dementia and he's probably been afraid it would happen to him as well.
Tue Sep 10, 2024, 02:46 AM
Sep 2024

Not just the humiliation but the loss of control when he gets put in a "memory center". I can't imagine him doing it.

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