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applegrove

(130,334 posts) Mon Nov 3, 2025, 09:54 PM Nov 3

How Trump will fall into the dictator's trap:

President Donald Trump will fall into a trap that a great many strongman leaders eventually do, former White House ethics expert Norm Eisen told the panel for MSNBC's "The Weeknight" on Monday: he will take things too far and enrage the public.
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2025-11-04T02:30:25.656Z

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How Trump will fall into the dictator's trap: (Original Post) applegrove Nov 3 OP

He won't fall dweller Nov 3 #1

He'll cankle-roll into it like the goose step... ananda Nov 3 #2

He's in cornered-rat territory now; his polls are terrible Ocelot II Nov 3 #3

I hope bdamomma Nov 4 #19

"The devil always overplays his hand" The Blue Flower Nov 3 #4

Tearing down rhe Whitehouse should do it. Emile Nov 3 #5

Jan 6 should have done it dweller Nov 3 #7

So many things should have done it. No single one has. It is the sum total that is enraging 63 pc of the public. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 3 #8

He already has, and the public is enraged, to the tune of about 63 percent. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 3 #6

He is putting 100% of his time and energy into the destruction of the USA. BigmanPigman Nov 3 #9

The top of the U.S. Military popsdenver Nov 4 #11

Hear, hear! BigmanPigman Nov 4 #14

And protector of rich pedophiles: Mike Johnson. nt Justice matters. Nov 4 #16

And, popsdenver Nov 4 #18

Oh yes, bdamomma Nov 4 #20

Maybe he'll just fucking die already. Orrex Nov 4 #10

Or some hero will ---- Jack Valentino Nov 4 #13

I've wondered about that... (n/t) PJMcK Nov 4 #17

or maybe bdamomma Nov 4 #21

He's living proof that only the good die young. thought crime Nov 4 #22

He didn't 'fall', he JUMPED HEAD FIRST into it--- and TOLD US HE WOULD Jack Valentino Nov 4 #12

Its a catch 22 SSJVegeta Nov 4 #15

dweller

(27,858 posts)

1. He won't fall

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 09:57 PM

Nov 3

He’ll goose-step into it

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ananda

(34,453 posts)

2. He'll cankle-roll into it like the goose step...

Reply to dweller (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 10:01 PM

Nov 3

of a waddling duck.

Ocelot II

(129,139 posts)

3. He's in cornered-rat territory now; his polls are terrible

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 10:10 PM

Nov 3

and he's starting to realize it's all going to shit. He's panicking and he will inevitably overreact.

bdamomma

(69,176 posts)

19. I hope

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #3)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 11:52 AM

Nov 4

that 34 count criminal felon will go down. Bring out those Epstein files for all to see, we all know his name is all over it. Sex assaulter that he is.

The Blue Flower

(6,356 posts)

4. "The devil always overplays his hand"

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 10:15 PM

Nov 3

According to an old friend.

Emile

(40,668 posts)

5. Tearing down rhe Whitehouse should do it.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 10:21 PM

Nov 3

dweller

(27,858 posts)

7. Jan 6 should have done it

Reply to Emile (Reply #5)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 10:41 PM

Nov 3

yet here we are

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Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)

8. So many things should have done it. No single one has. It is the sum total that is enraging 63 pc of the public. . nt

Reply to Emile (Reply #5)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 10:42 PM

Nov 3

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)

6. He already has, and the public is enraged, to the tune of about 63 percent. . . . . nt

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 10:41 PM

Nov 3

BigmanPigman

(54,593 posts)

9. He is putting 100% of his time and energy into the destruction of the USA.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 10:52 PM

Nov 3

I watched James Carville about one month ago and I agree with his prediction since it is realistic.

He said that when tRump personally acknowledges he is very sick, won't get better and can't hide it from the public he will destroy the USA any way he can.

Carville also said that when his poll numbers tank and he sees that the support from his constituents' is falling he will take revenge and he will take the country down with him.

He is vengeful, sadistic, psychopath who hates America. He will take us down since he feels we betrayed him (nothing is ever HIS fault).

He IS destroying us right now. This is not the "future" this is current and will get much, much worse.

popsdenver

(1,569 posts)

11. The top of the U.S. Military

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #9)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:23 AM

Nov 4

hopefully will intervene should he try to use the "football". It would be just like him to go out with a bang, saying: " I'll show all of you"......

AND, in all reality, it isn't Trump per se........It is the Corporations, the RED States, the Uber Wealthy Republicans, the Republican House and Senate, the U.S. Republican owned/operated Media, the Un-educated Trumphumping voters, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He wouldn't have lasted the first day, in his first term, if it wasn't for all of them......and the person who engineered it all........Putin

BigmanPigman

(54,593 posts)

14. Hear, hear!

Reply to popsdenver (Reply #11)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:33 AM

Nov 4

Justice matters.

(9,413 posts)

16. And protector of rich pedophiles: Mike Johnson. nt

Reply to popsdenver (Reply #11)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 01:03 AM

Nov 4

popsdenver

(1,569 posts)

18. And,

Reply to Justice matters. (Reply #16)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 11:44 AM

Nov 4

along with all mentioned, we should scoop up them, along with anyone wearing a red MAGA hat, and deport them all to a third world banana dictator run country.........
Or better yet parachute them over Russia......

bdamomma

(69,176 posts)

20. Oh yes,

Reply to popsdenver (Reply #11)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 11:57 AM

Nov 4

this is Putin's dream to have an unstable mentally deranged man/child to neuter us all and our country.

We should never ever do this

Orrex

(66,691 posts)

10. Maybe he'll just fucking die already.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:22 AM

Nov 4

Jack Valentino

(4,381 posts)

13. Or some hero will ----

Reply to Orrex (Reply #10)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:31 AM

Nov 4

oops, I cannot complete that thought and remain in compliance with site rules!!!

PJMcK

(24,756 posts)

17. I've wondered about that... (n/t)

Reply to Jack Valentino (Reply #13)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 03:09 AM

Nov 4

bdamomma

(69,176 posts)

21. or maybe

Reply to Orrex (Reply #10)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 11:59 AM

Nov 4

a brain aneurysm.

thought crime

(1,229 posts)

22. He's living proof that only the good die young.

Reply to Orrex (Reply #10)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:05 PM

Nov 4

Jack Valentino

(4,381 posts)

12. He didn't 'fall', he JUMPED HEAD FIRST into it--- and TOLD US HE WOULD

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:29 AM

Nov 4

BEFORE the 2024 Election....

'I will be a Dictator on Day One'!

(although he couldn't 'lower prices on day one' which he also promised to do,
never-mind, look at the ugly shiny object 'over THERE!!!!'[ )

SSJVegeta

(2,342 posts)

15. Its a catch 22

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:57 AM

Nov 4

If he does too much he pisses off the public and gets thrown out on his ass or worse.

If he does too little he enrages the public and gets thrown out on his ass. Or worse.

Whoever thunk being a dictator is such a narrow fabric to thread?

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