Will Trump Last The 4 Year Term?

Trump’s latest photo shows all the benefits of good lighting and much photoshopping. He is appallingly vain.

Allira

Homestead62

I saw a photo of President-elect Trump with Prime Minister Netanyahu the other night. I didn't think President- elect Trump looked awfully well, but perhaps he was just tired.
In my opinion he probably will last the term, he's a very determined person and I could see him living to a very old age, however, none of us have a crystal ball.

Genetics play a part too, as well as diet and lifestyle and I know nonagenarians and centenarians who didn't eat a good diet - and smoked although they did give up in their 70s I think.

Trump's mother lived to 88 and his father to 93.

I’m guessing they didn’t live on McDonalds though. Useless fact - Trump drinks 12 cans of Diet Coke a day, and is such an advert for the company that they have made him special commemorative inaugural bottle of it.

It certainly looked like her to me both in Paris and at the funeral.. I've assumed that they live apart but that she accompanies him to events..

there is something not quite right at all

She looks older and more natural.
It is Melania.

I'm sure Putin does.

Allira

Claremont

Honestly, I don't think it is her at all- but a lookalike.

Do you need to go to Specsavers? 🤔

Not at all - lok closely. Her hair is very sparse, and there is something not quite right at all.

Putin and others do have lookalike + plastic surgery/make up.

Homestead62

I saw a photo of President-elect Trump with Prime Minister Netanyahu the other night. I didn't think President- elect Trump looked awfully well, but perhaps he was just tired.
In my opinion he probably will last the term, he's a very determined person and I could see him living to a very old age, however, none of us have a crystal ball.

Genetics play a part too, as well as diet and lifestyle and I know nonagenarians and centenarians who didn't eat a good diet - and smoked although they did give up in their 70s I think.

Trump's mother lived to 88 and his father to 93.

Homestead62

I saw a photo of President-elect Trump with Prime Minister Netanyahu the other night. I didn't think President- elect Trump looked awfully well, but perhaps he was just tired.
In my opinion he probably will last the term, he's a very determined person and I could see him living to a very old age, however, none of us have a crystal ball.

His alleged diet is pretty awful, consisting of mostly (or, if MM is to be believed, totally) fast-food from the American 'chains'. Plus well-grilled steak.

He apparently likes the consistent quality of the food - which I can understand.

But the high cholesterol, high sugar / salt content of this type of food cannot, surely, be good? If it's true what is said, he's been eating this way for years.

He also - again allegedly - regularly fasts for 14 or so hours, after which he ends his fast with a fulfilling fast-food spread.

... the very antithesis of a healthy diet.

We've all heard stories of old people who've lived to a ripe old age who drink, smoke, and - so they say - 'eat what they like'. But they are rare - and I don't believe we get the full story.

My great grandmother lived well into her early 90s (even remarried at 86), drank port every day, smoked regularly (but not heavily), and ate "what she liked" - but 'what she liked' was in fact good, nutritious, food - she loved root vegetables "with a bit of meat", ate celery and tomatoes almost every day at tea-time (because she liked them, and grew her own tomatoes) and, when she could get hold of it - fresh fruit. And made her own bread. If you see what I mean...

If Trump's diet is as reported, it will - in simple terms - affect his overall health, I don't think there's any getting away from that. In fact, I think it's already affecting him. He's running on an adrenalin high ATM, but nutritionally - on empty. And I think it will, ultimately, show.

I saw a photo of President-elect Trump with Prime Minister Netanyahu the other night. I didn't think President- elect Trump looked awfully well, but perhaps he was just tired.
In my opinion he probably will last the term, he's a very determined person and I could see him living to a very old age, however, none of us have a crystal ball.

Ps I hope your DB will be fine.

David49

We should have regard for our own mortality, my brother 4 yrs younger, had a mini stroke at Christmas.
He’s more or less OK, a bit too close to home for comfort

Well, that's cheerful!!

My father lived to be 92 and died after a short illness. He was still active and on the committee of three local organisations, and during his final illness were issuing bulletins, as if he was royalty, because so many people were enquiring after his health, probably because once he died they were going to have find someone else to do all the organising he did.

So at 78 Trump will not inevitably be senile and unable to do the job of President at 82, or even have any signs of mental decline. It just that from 75 onwards, the probability of death, serious illness, or mental decline rises rapidly.

Lets face it Rupert Murdoch is 93, 15 years older than Trump. In those 15 years he has ruled News Corp and his family with a rod of iron, and , I think, worked he way through several wives as well.

My DH is the same age as Trump. He says he is going to keep going for 4 years as he wants to see what happens next, is Trump going to just stay on so noone needs to vote again?

We should have regard for our own mortality, my brother 4 yrs younger, had a mini stroke at Christmas.
He’s more or less OK, a bit too close to home for comfort

David49

We should not wish for Trumps demise, it would mean Vance takes over, what I’ve heard about Vance does not make me optimistic.

Some sayings come to mind!

The lesser of two evils

And

always keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse.

What david49 said - exactly!

The issue is not if Trump will last 4 years - what is going to happen with this new radical way of thinking?

Trump only opened the door - many held it open for him

We should not wish for Trumps demise, it would mean Vance takes over, what I’ve heard about Vance does not make me optimistic.

May be he will gain sympathy by rubbing tomato ketchup in the other ear.

My suspicion at this point is that Trump will last the four years, but at the end of the day, who knows? Nobody’s got a crystal ball have they? So we’ll just have to wait and see.

imaround

Yes it is very easy to make an assumption based on a single photograph and then pass that assumption on as fact in a forum. I just wish that more people realized that not everything you see online or hear in the media is true.

Oh at last! A kindred spirit!

Trump won because in American politics money talks. Musk got him there and was the reason he has become President.

Musk will just take his money elsewhere because that's what he does, and the administration will flounder like it did before, with swapping and changing whoever is Trump's favourite at the time. They are all the make for themselves and don't care about the deluded people who voted for them.

I don't know how long he will last but I have a shred of confidence in the democratic system. Trump knows he's on a shorter thread following his indictments and what happened following the storming of the capitol.

Trump is a media man- a lot of what he says he knows is nonsense but he says it anyway because he knows it sells news.This is what he understands and it plays into people's fears. When you make people afraid you can use that fear and he sure knows how to do this.

I don't know if he'll stay in power or not. There's something in me that hopes he will, because if he dies we will only have more and more of the conspiracy theories that his voters love. Rather he sits out the term and the people of the US may or may not realise what they created has ultimately destroyed them. Let's wait and see...

It wouldn't surprise me to find he had a pesonality disorder, but I see no reason to think he might have dementia.

Unfortunately, I do not think any country, and certainly not the USA has ever legistrated for the contingency that a president might become mentally unfit for the job.

So whether or not Trump is fit for it, unless he dies in office the world will probably have to put up with him for the next four years.

No, I don't think he's dementing. He did win comfortably and like him or loathe him he seems to have a lot of energy for a 77 year old.
He is definitely his own persona and doesn't rely on scripts when talking at length.
He is indeed a showman and unless he's assassinated think he'll last a while yet.

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The USA have made several attempts "buy" it in the past, this article explains it quite well

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