Donald Trump Is Going Down—and He Knows It

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-is-going-downand-he-knows-it/

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  1. He will surely go down this time. yeah he didn’t go down all the other times. But this time it will stick. Read the article to find out how.

  2. In other news, Donald Trump is a child rapist and a child sex trafficker.

  3. The thing is, Donald Trump always knows he’s going down. He always *believes* he’s going down, and he’s been that way for most of his life. He doesn’t know why he succeeds; hiis inexplicable twists of fortune are as much a mystery to him as they are to everyone else.

    He’s literally the evil, Bizzaro-world version of Forrest Gump: a low-IQ individual simply stumblingunwittingly through all the many major geopolitical events of his time. He makes terrible decisions and continues to strikes outrageous fortune, over and over and over again, without ever actually understanding why.

    Bullets whiz by him, career-ending scandals ding off him daily. But what I want to really reiterate is that he is *always scared shitless*. Despite appearing invulnerable to us, he always acts like a desperate, scared-shitless man.

    When he does consciously attempt to take action, it’s always the stupidest possible move he could choose to make, which he makes BECAUSE he’s the stupidest possible person in the public stage, and it simply works, not for any reason he or any of us understand, but because he’s just this dim-witted, savage, evil human being surfing on the far tail-end of some universal bell curve of outrageous luck, unaware how he got there, or why he’s there, and perpetually terrified it will suddenly crash and throw him off.

    Just look at him bribing Stormy Daniels in 2010s. This is a perfect example of him doing a really fucking dumb thing because he categorically misunderstands the people who support him and the forces buoying him, and doing the worst possible thing in the stupidest possible way, and getting away with it for no other reason than extraordinary luck.

    People seem to think that Trump is aware of, and luxuriates in, his apparently invincibility. But it’s the exact opposite. He lives in perpetual fear and paranoia.

    If he truly grasped and embraced his apparent invulnerability, he wouldn’t have tried to cover up the Stormy Daniels affair. After all, as is very clear, the knowledge of that affair would probably have INCREASED his standing with his MAGA base, or at the very least, they would have been indifferent to it.

    Instead, he spent six figures and exposed himself to criminal liability to try and “kill’ the story.

    Everything he does, everything he has done for a decade and longer, is the actions of a man far out of his depths, scared and floundering as he’s surrounded by dangers he doesn’t comprehend, and often spared from said dangers by twists of luck and fortune that he clearly doesn’t understand and never believes will save him, yet always does.

    Like, if you really, truly go back and just look at his improbable life, it’s honestly a little hard to even condemn him for being the way he is.

    He may be one of the luckiest human beings on the planet. He has spoiled or ruined so many fortunes, only to simply be handed another one by outrageous, insane amounts of luck.

    Everything he consciously does is the worst thing anyone could do in that situation, and it just simply keeps working. In ways no one can predict, for reasons literally no one understands, least of all him, because he’s a moron.

  4. We’re in season 10 of the Trump Reality Show and scandal after scandal, no accountability. He was even voted in a second time! I have no doubt that he’ll find a way to get out of this mess too. 

  5. He is not going down.

    He is immune from any political consequences.

    Yes, he is a sick man, but his stone heart will beat on for another decade.

  6. When the sun goes down, so does donald trump. Unfortunately, it’s not the downfall the country needs

  7. Nah. He’s like my uncle. The nastiest soul-less person you will ever meet who outlives everyone nice and will never pay for the damage he’s done and will never die.

    Instead of waiting for his demise, a better use of our energy is to prepare to fight when he tries to cancel elections.

  8. Soon 6 foot under…but he better be incinerated so he doesn’t rise from the dead 3 days after

  9. > Michael Ian Black

    As in Michael Ian Black Michael Ian Black?

  10. These Daily Beast articles are nothing but clickbait and yet they reach the front page all the time. Please stop giving this site clicks. We need to ban it from this sub.

  11. The only line crossed that has ever gotten anyone in power taken down is fucking with wealthy people’s money.

  12. I wish it were true, but there’s not a honest republican in office right now. I like the optimism though.

  13. Muller Report, Steele Dossier, Ukraine Quid Pro Quo, J6, 34 felony counts.

    Nothing will happen to this man. Sorry Reddit but that’s the reality of the situation.

  14. He’s not -but even if- just off of the stage there are worse ones waiting to walk out in to the spotlight.

    We passed the tipping point a while back. The old structure has been damaged very heavily and the new one is building with no breaks, checks, or balances.

    Very honestly, it doesn’t matter who sits in the Oval Office now as long as they promise to meet or exceed Payless Putin.

  15. He will go down, as in his health will accelerate in a downward spiral it will happen quickly, and he will die. He will beat everything but physics, and physics is knocking at that old asshole’s door.

  16. He got 34 felonies and magically became more untouchable. Dude for sure sold his soul to satan.

  17. The reason everyone was popping off over the prospect that he might have died a couple days ago is because no one is of the view that anything but his own body failing, the crude hard facts of biological breakdown, is going to take him down. The rule of law sure as hell hasn’t.

    We’re where we are because everyone who was ever in a position of power to do the right thing didn’t because they were concerned it would look political or be bad optics. Every judge, every attorney general, every former US president that could have said “enough is enough” and lock him up didn’t and now we’re here.

  18. He doesn’t know it. He’s a narcissist. He always thinks he’s winning. The flyover during the Epstein victims conference was his way of saying he “won”. When he loses, he will realize it only at the very end. When he simply can no longer deny it.

  19. Oh will he? This time, for real? I’ve just accepted he ain’t going away until he dies. Who comes next is what scares me…

  20. The faster the better, I’m actually hoping for a nice Thanksgiving and Christmas. Halloween too

  21. “It’s the beginning of the end”

    “The walls are closing in”

    “The final days of the Trump presidency”

    Getting creative now aren’t we?

  22. Quality reporting from the daily beast. Keep up the good work.

  23. Been hearing this for about 10 years and still nothing happened. I expect nothing less from the dailybeast.

    Can we ban Newsweek, DailyBeast and other opinion pieces?

  24. Wouldn’t this all be wild if the climax of this whole character arc is him standing in the middle of 5th Avenue shooting someone, and then…

  25. Im just trying to not die from something stupid before i get to wake up to the news hes dead.

  26. He is not going down soon enough. He destroys more and more every day

  27. I upvote things like this for the same reason some people pray. Just in case it works.

  28. People have been saying this for 10 years, so I’ll believe it when I see it.

  29. Should have gone down right after Jan. 6 and yet here we are…

  30. I want him to go to prison. I want the country and the world to know that the United States is a country of laws. If Trump dies before that, I want him tried anyways. A message needs to be sent to any future dictators that America doesn’t put up with that shit.

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