This trend toward pundits saying Trump will bail after the midterms is becoming really tiresome

[Miles Archer]

People who are saying things like:

"If you lose big time at the midterms and then just come up with some health excuse or other excuse to go home early"

...don't really understand Trump at all.

IF HE IS WITHIN A FEW MONTHS OF HIS DIRT NAP, MAYBE.

But Trump's ego won't let him walk away for ANY reason. He'll keep blaming Obama and Biden. He's not going to "come up with a health excuse" and step away from the obscene financial enrichment he's cultivated in the first 15 months of his "presidency."

I wish the pundits would give this a rest, because it creates false expectations at a time when we need our feet on the ground, not our heads in the clouds.

[RockRaven]

1. He thinks/knows he committed many federal felonies and being POTUS is the only

thing keeping him from prosecution. He does not trust ANYONE, least of all JD Vance who he has ritually humiliated time and again. He will never resign.

Frankly, that line of talk could be useful... if people would only use it to identify who to never listen to again.

[Miles Archer]

3. Exactly. That's why I posted the link, but no additional content or the source of the remarks

Maybe...MAYBE, in the realm of "conventional wisdom," another politician would feel the heat and take a hike.

Maybe people think that what happened with Nixon...Goldwater telling him "you're going down"...would work with Trump. It wouldn't.

He's not building a bunker under his ballroom just for the hell of it.

[EdmondDantes_]

4. I agree Trump won't resign

But if Trump did resign, Vance would be pathetic enough to grovel for Trump's endorsement for the 2028 election that he would pardon Trump as a just in case Trump likely giving himself a pardon is deemed unconstitutional. Pretty much the only time Republicans openly cross Trump is when they aren't running again.

[Johonny]

2. All evidence is he's never leaving that house

Alive. He thinks he's our king.

He is fucking nuts. I mean, completely fucking nuts. And the people around him only feed his mental delusions.

[SheilaAnn]

5. My fantasy is the Marshals will handcuff him immediately after the new Democratic President is sworn in. This would be a

surprise for him, not hearing a peep ahead of time. I love to daydream.