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Will Donald Trump give a concession speech?

Will Donald Trump give a concession speech?

  • No

    Votes: 25 39.7%

  • Yes

    Votes: 16 25.4%

  • No, because he will win

    Votes: 11 17.5%

  • On Planet X, he will be the true winner, but the election was rigged against him

    Votes: 11 17.5%
  • Total voters
    63

Tony Stark

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By this I mean he acknowledges that he lost fair and square. I say almost certainly not.
 
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I'll be astonished if he does. But I really hope he does simply because it might discourage any of his less stable followers from doing something stupid and tragic.
 
In the event that Donald Trump does not win then no doubt there will be some kind of speech. IMO that speech will contain:

  • Allegations of widespread vote rigging and election fraud - these will be tacitly supported by the GOP in general. They won't come out in support of these comments but they will not disown them either.
  • Claims that Trump will successfully challenge the result in several states, some of which Hillary won handsomely - most or all of these will come to nothing, it's empty bluster
  • Suggestions that "Some people are saying, I don't know" that people should take up arms to stop the election being stolen from them. This will be carefully worded to stop well short of sedition. The GOP will not support these calls but they will only condemn them in the most mealy-mouthed way
  • Calls for impeachment proceedings to begin against Hillary - these calls will be echoed by several senior GOP personalities
  • Further wild allegations concerning Hillary's "Crookedness" all couched in "a lot of people are saying" type language

Trump will go to his deathbed convinced that he really did win the election and that it was stolen from him. The GOP will use his comments to undermine the legitimacy of Hillary's Presidency. They will also use it as a means to enact a broad range of voter suppression legislation aimed at excluding minority voters.

All of this will happen because numbers of GOP supporters, and Trump in particular are ******** :mad:
 
I think The Don is spot-on.

Trump will vow to bring down Clinton, promise use his wealth to hire investigators to send her to prison but actually do nothing except to chime in every time impeachment is discussed.
 
Is it too much to hope for that he completely snaps, declares himself the winner and then refuses to acknowledge otherwise? He can lock himself in Trump Tower and broadcast on his Facebook station as to what's really going on with the country and what he and his cabinet (all curiously named Trump) have done that day.

In short - he crosses over to Time Cube territory.
 
Smart money is on spontaneous human combustion triggered by a burst of petulance so intense astronomers detect it as a new radio galaxy.
 
This is hardly original with me, but I'm going to vote "yes": Trump can't stand being a loser, so when he is beaten badly - I predict the first large network will call the election by 8:45 Eatern tonight - he will flip into "safe mode" and basically pretend the whole thing was no big deal; and he'll make what for him is a gracious concession, with only a hunt of the rigged-conspiracy talk (that he'll return to within a week). It will be his ego's way of protecting itself.
 
Donald will complain that the election was rigged, which will cause his most fervent supporters to spill blood.
 
thaiboxerken said:
Donald will complain that the election was rigged, which will cause his most fervent supporters to spill blood.
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I think he gives a nonspecific "call to arms" to take the country back. He'll stop just short of calling for armed insurrection but his cult will follow the dog whistle.
 
Craig4 said:
I think he gives a nonspecific "call to arms" to take the country back. He'll stop just short of calling for armed insurrection but his cult will follow the dog whistle.
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I agree. He knows his supporters are deplorable enough to be violent.
 
A wild-eyed Trump supporter was interviewed for Sky (I think) this morning. She said that if Trump loses, well-armed people would gather and 'move on' the White House. In the silence that followed this announcement the skin of her face tightened and her pupils dilated with a worrying darkness.
 
My guess is that he will politely concede. I say this because he seems to have a tendency to fake in one direction and then move in the opposite direction.

Feel free to mock me yet again if I'm wrong on this.
 
He will give a concession speech of sorts. He'll admit he lost the rigged election, but go on to claim overall victory because he won the hearts and minds of white uneducated America.

He'll make a "major" announcement of what comes next. Trump TV, lawsuits aplenty, that sort of stuff. Very little will be about Clinton and none of it will be about healing America from what he's done to it.
 
sts60 said:
This is hardly original with me, but I'm going to vote "yes": Trump can't stand being a loser, so when he is beaten badly - I predict the first large network will call the election by 8:45 Eatern tonight - he will flip into "safe mode" and basically pretend the whole thing was no big deal; and he'll make what for him is a gracious concession, with only a hunt of the rigged-conspiracy talk (that he'll return to within a week). It will be his ego's way of protecting itself.
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You think they'll call the election hours before the polls close on the West Coast? I hope not.
 
sts60 said:
This is hardly original with me, but I'm going to vote "yes": Trump can't stand being a loser, so when he is beaten badly - I predict the first large network will call the election by 8:45 Eatern tonight - he will flip into "safe mode" and basically pretend the whole thing was no big deal; and he'll make what for him is a gracious concession, with only a hunt of the rigged-conspiracy talk (that he'll return to within a week). It will be his ego's way of protecting itself.
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Something like that, yeah. He'll make the concession speech about himself (he's "going back to a nice life, a very nice life") and throw in some hook about an impending announcement of something huge. That will eventually turn out to be TrumpTV, where he can go full retard.
 
My answer (arrived at immediately upon seeing the thread title) is yes, if it's clearly a loss, he will offer a fairly muted concession. He's got some grace to call on in there somewhere.
 
Foolmewunz said:
Is it too much to hope for that he completely snaps, declares himself the winner and then refuses to acknowledge otherwise? He can lock himself in Trump Tower and broadcast on his Facebook station as to what's really going on with the country and what he and his cabinet (all curiously named Trump) have done that day.

In short - he crosses over to Time Cube territory.
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At least one will be named John Miller...
 
I voted No but I think he might give a weak, mealy mouthed concession speech at first but then when in the comfort of his gilded rooms he'll start tweeting about Rigged! and Robbed! He's a standard middle school bully who caves in the face of actual opposition but puffs himself up later to his toadies.
 
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