re: If POSSIBLE a discussion about Trump.

If Congress wont pay for Mexican wall, he will go sulk in his tower.

I am assuming that the ages of most posters are in their 20's and 30's. You will realize, as you get older, that not working, and retirement, is highly over-rated, especially if you enjoy your work.

If you own your own business (like Trump) and you become financially comfortable, working is actually playing.

I think he probably has regrets. Everyone in the private sector, and especially in real estate ownership and development has been trained to hate government. It has to be an incredibly difficult transition to deal with the slow moving bureaucracy. When he wants to go hang out at one of his favorite restaurants and get a prime piece of meat well done, and douse it with ketchup, he can't do it without constantly being monitored and criticized.

He did it becuase he has ego. That is true of almost everyone who runs for elective office. I think he also did it becuase he thought he could make a difference.

But yes, back to one of your points. I don't think it is unlikely that he doesn't look back and think, screw this, Atlas shrugged.

Think about Kobe Bryant. Part of the juice is being on the court, getting attention, having the power, having the stage. Once you retire, the spotlight moves on without you and you're history.


I just believe an egomaniac like trump likes the attention too much to retire to enjoy the fruits of his labors, like he doesn't do that already.....

go somewhere else you attention whore

(regardless of the talk of prosecutions - and finger pointings)

I believe he's found out being President is far different than CEO or reality TV host. For a really long time he's not had people talk back, really never had to worry about the level of scrutiny he's now under. As a boss he could always say you're fired and there was simply no more check, on TV it was a game and everyone knew the rules gong in. Even a General turned President had someone he ultimately reported to before taking the job.

Not saying he's going to cut and run, change who he is, or become cuddly. Only that he's not in his element, and there's going to be changes. Some you may like and some you won't, no matter your perversion. If he's near as smart as he claims, I'm guessing he'll soon learn to attack differently, if nothing else to avoid the audit trail of hard copy. Politician have for always lied in spoken word, it's rather new to see so much typed and personally submitted, without as much as an aide to fall on the sword. Words can always be skewed, to later fit the circumstance, not so sure how easy with the tweets. ETA: He'll still tweet - just more about how grand he is and the glorious state of the union.

And likely he'll have a deeper vetting for those really close, some of his ills have been inflicted by liking the way a guy talks, and not knowing to who all he's talked.

ETA: removed how civil it had been - (last 2-3 f'd that up.))