2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSerious question: Might Trump end his life rather than face humiliation?
He thinks he's the most tremendous man ever. Only he can fix everything he sees is wrong to make America Great again. His vanity knows no boundaries, but he is heading towards the biggest humiliation of his life.
Will he become suicidal?
Will he have a mental breakdown?
How will he handle his defeat?
woodsprite
(11,924 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)Awful, and beneath this website.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Sad
Kennah
(14,315 posts)It's pretty obvious what he would do if he loses. He will claim it was rigged.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)It's so amazingly personal. I truly hope he would get proper help if he started having suicidal thoughts.
womanofthehills
(8,761 posts)No, he will just hate and hate and blame everyone - he thinks too highly of himself. You know this is very bad for his business - Yea!
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)And it goes directly to the ego aspect. He doesn't lose in his own mind.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)(the media, the GOP, Hillary, Obama, the Trilateral Commission, aliens) in order to avoid having to acknowledge he was a total flop as a candidate.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)agreed. I think he'll take that to his grave.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)That was my first thought, too.
Doodley
(9,124 posts)he has experienced before. How can any human being, even Trump, withstand that level of apparent persecution?
subterranean
(3,427 posts)Every time something doesn't go the way he wants, he says it was rigged against him. I have no doubt he'll do the same with this election.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)he'll go to his grave claiming and believing it was rigged against him - Crooked Hillary, the RNC, the media (including Fox), etc, etc.
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)karynnj
(59,504 posts)He will STILL think he is best, but the world was flawed and rejected him.
randome
(34,845 posts)He will die in his 90s cursing the wind. And his deplorable family will not give him the help he needs.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A 90% chance of rain means the same as a 10% chance:
It might rain and it might not.[/center][/font][hr]
HipChick
(25,485 posts)could.not.care.less
grubbs
(356 posts)Doodley
(9,124 posts)I do agree that he will absolutely believe he should have won, but the system was rigged. But for a man who takes every criticism so personally, how will he take a situation in which most of the country seem to be criticizing him? His refusal to say he would respect the election result is going to destroy him, as more Republicans will turn against him.
truthisfreedom
(23,155 posts)profiting from the small minds of those who believe his "system is rigged" bullshit.
Yes, donald, the system is rigged, but it's not rigged to assist someone who's completely unpredictable and has zero discipline and thinks that bragging about sexual assault to underlings makes his imaginary dick look sexier.
BlueStateLib
(937 posts)nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)He has narcissistic personality disorder (big league) - narcissists see the world in a very altered lens. If you read through his entire history, he has never once - ever - taken responsibility for being wrong, for making a mistake etc. It is ALWAYS someone else's fault and he is always the victim.
Suicide would be an admission of a personal failure - and he can't do that.
You can't have a mental breakdown when you live in such a deluded reality.
I am not saying this facetiously - my mom has NPD, there are so many times I thought ok she will have a breakdown from this - there is no way she can spin this into a positive. And I was wrong - she still could. She still comes out the victim and everyone else is the problem. It is the craziest thing.
He can never be "defeated" - he just changes the rules.
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...And now it's his mission to make everyone realize that, get Hillary thrown into jail where she belongs and get the media to apologize to him and congress to hand him the presidency. Or at least a television show where he can spout all this stuff to his heart's content. He'll play the martyr, be St. Donald, telling it "like it is" to his followers who will send him money to help him take down crooked Hillary...
Suicide? We should be so lucky.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)As for a mental breakdown, I think that train has already left the station.
avebury
(10,952 posts)and then claim he didn't.
still_one
(92,395 posts)Mz Pip
(27,453 posts)He'll do his media empire thing. It will fail. There are already plenty of RWNJs out there.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)This is unintentionally hurtful to many here and I am certain that is not your intention. Please consider removing this post.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)I started attending Doral as a young kid in 1968. Gardner Dickinson edged Tom Weiskopf by 1 shot when both of them double bogeyed the famed 18th hole.
Doral began in 1960 and was played annually through 2016. I've attended more than 25 years including the past 8 in a row. Now it's gone, outsourced to Mexico thanks to Donald Trump after he turned off so many sponsors via incendiary remarks.
It's particularly bad timing for South Florida since golf is struggling nationwide but especially here since Hispanics aren't inclined to play or watch golf to begin with. We really needed that PGA event to give youngsters a footing.