{"id":27749,"date":"2018-01-29T22:07:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T22:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27749"},"modified":"2018-01-29T22:07:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T22:07:59","slug":"might-potus-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27749","title":{"rendered":"How might POTUS exit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Forgive me for getting ahead of myself, but my mind sometimes wanders far a good bit into the future at times.<\/p>\n<p>My mind is teasing me at the moment with this question: How is Donald John Trump going to exit the presidency of the United States?<\/p>\n<p>I keep wondering if he is capable of going out with grace, keeping the tradition long established by a &#8220;peaceful&#8221; and &#8220;seamless&#8221; transition of power from one president to the next one.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t predict when that transition will occur. I guess it&#8217;s OK to mention five options that await the president:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He could get re-elected in 2020 and serve the remainder of his presidency until he <em>must<\/em> exit, according to the U.S. Constitution.<\/li>\n<li>He could be defeated for re-election in 2020.<\/li>\n<li>He might decide against seeking a second term.<\/li>\n<li>He could be impeached by the House of Representatives and then convicted in the Senate after Democrats re-take control of both congressional chambers in the 2018 mid-term election.<\/li>\n<li>He could quit before being impeached.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I won&#8217;t predict which of those events will occur. In a strange way, though, it seems quite likely to my own mind that no matter how this man exits the presidency, he isn&#8217;t going to go away quietly.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump just ain&#8217;t wired to behave the way those who occupy this exalted office usually do.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all prepare for continued turbulence.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me for getting ahead of myself, but my mind sometimes wanders far a good bit into the future at times. My mind is teasing me at the moment with this question: How is Donald John Trump going to exit the presidency of the United States? I keep wondering if he is capable of going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27749\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How might POTUS exit?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,3688,5043],"class_list":["post-27749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-potus","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27750,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions\/27750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}