What would you expect out of a second Trump term? (2025-)

[Woody]

Title. GOP wins the Senate & House by decent margins in 2024.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Hopefully tens of thousands of bureaucrats are fired starting with the Pentagon.

[Fight for Trump]

Finishing the wall, more peace throughout the world.

[certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

Inshallah, the further demise of the Great Shaytan, America

[LostInOhio]

Not much. He accomplished nothing of note aside from a standard Republican tax cut. The best thing he’d do is ensure a landslide Democratic victory against VP Marjorie Taylor-Greene that makes 2008 look like a close shave.

[Catholics vs. Convicts]

Dismantling of the democratic process.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Chaos.

[Torie]

The sun, disconsolate beyond any therapy known in the universe, goes into super nova mode, and incinerates the solar system. 

This is one of those "what if's" as to which any other response is a fools errand.

[rhg2052]

• Appointment of a Staff and Cabinet made up only of True Believers and those who pander to them, no establishment “adults in the room” this time. Even more blatant corruption and nepotism.
• Overturning anything of note that the Biden admin accomplishes
• purging government agencies of perceived disloyalty
• Continued focus on election fraud conspiracies - major moves to dismantle voting rights laws, give legislatures control of the electoral process
• Attempted withdrawal from NATO, international trade orgs

[ProudModerate2]

This ... (which is just a continuation of what we saw the first four years.)

[Pericles]

• Overturning anything of note that the Biden admin accomplishes

The BIF isn't getting repealed, and much of the money would have been spent already. The gun bill is pretty limited but also won't be repealed. If the full reconciliation deal passes, much of the climate money would have been spent too but it would be possible, although unpopular, to cut the rest. It would be politically suicidal to take away Medicare's ability to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies once already implemented. The 15% minimum tax would be unpopular to repeal but Republicans could just go ahead and do it anyway.

[Bootes Void]

• Overturning anything of note that the Biden admin accomplishes

The BIF isn't getting repealed, and much of the money would have been spent already. The gun bill is pretty limited but also won't be repealed. If the full reconciliation deal passes, much of the climate money would have been spent too but it would be possible, although unpopular, to cut the rest. It would be politically suicidal to take away Medicare's ability to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies once already implemented. The 15% minimum tax would be unpopular to repeal but Republicans could just go ahead and do it anyway.

Most of Trumps accomplishments besides tax cuts and bipartisan legislation has basically been undone or become unnecessary at this point(ex: tariffs)

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

There will be no second Trump term

[First1There]

Trump saying something like, "I had my true second term stolen from me, so that allows me to have a third term in 2028." With him purposely ignoring the term limit amendment.

The argument is stupid, but I think it would convince a significant amount of his supporters.

[LostInOhio]

Trump saying something like, "I had my true second term stolen from me, so that allows me to have a third term in 2028." With him purposely ignoring the term limit amendment.

The argument is stupid, but I think it would convince a significant amount of his supporters.

This would be fairly open and shut for even a conservative SCOTUS. He’d be disqualified, officially receive zero electoral votes and thereby lose. 538-0.

I actually do think he’d just have his VP run in ‘28. He’d be 81 and even he would probably just want to retire as “I can’t run anymore” would be a perfect excuse to step down.

[PSOL]

War with Iran or Venezuela.

[longtimelurker]

Trump saying something like, "I had my true second term stolen from me, so that allows me to have a third term in 2028." With him purposely ignoring the term limit amendment.

The argument is stupid, but I think it would convince a significant amount of his supporters.

This would be fairly open and shut for even a conservative SCOTUS. He’d be disqualified, officially receive zero electoral votes and thereby lose. 538-0.

I actually do think he’d just have his VP run in ‘28. He’d be 81 and even he would probably just want to retire as “I can’t run anymore” would be a perfect excuse to step down.

Sort of when Putin took a sabbatical and Medvedev assumed the role temporarily.  Like a Broadway show when a note is stuck in the Playbill that the role of XXXX will be played by YYYY for today's matinee.

[longtimelurker]

Elimination of the EPA.  DDT un-banned.  Endangered Species Act eliminated.  Bye Bye Birdies.
Funding for National Parks, forests, and monuments gutted.
NOAA and NSF gutted; nearly eliminated.
NASA climate research terminated.

Ukraine and Zelenskyy have a figurative lead hammer come down on them (depends what happens between now and 2025, obviously). 

50/50 chance Trump goes to North Korea and tries to normalize relations.  Because he "loves" Kim because he's a "tough guy" who pummels treasonous dissenters.  Insists that North Korea is not communist; it's the Democrats who are the "real" communists because they make him flush the toilet 15 times.

50/50 chance he dies in office.

[It’s so Joever]

Well…at least politics would be…less polarized and I bet the crime rate would drop a lot!
Also very telling how you didn’t put an end year. Not that I disagree.

[Fight for Trump]

Ukraine and Zelenskyy have a figurative lead hammer come down on them (depends what happens between now and 2025, obviously).

Even the Biden administration, led by a man whose family's main source of wealth is Ukrainian corruption, has concerns about Zelenskyy, lol.

[wesmoorenerd]

Hopefully tens of thousands of bureaucrats are fired starting with the Pentagon.

I guarantee you have absolutely no idea what that would entail.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

A repeat of his first term, but messier and with fewer Supreme Court Appointments. Republicans might feel emboldened in a way they weren't during the First Act, but Trump himself is incapable of learning.

There'll be petty revenge against certain Republicans who betrayed him, but he's not going to execute any kind of grand plan because he can't and is likely to physically deteriorate over the course of his second and final term. I'd need a lot of convincing to be persuaded that anything like "the storm" could become a real thing given its failure to manifest so far.

Maybe he'll end with a dramatic self-pardon for general purposes, but there's not much he deliberately held back in the first term that he'd be prepared to attempt in the second.

There is the potential for me to be terribly wrong in this prediction, and I think that potential is greatest where Trump's first term was on the brink of causing momentous changes but didn't quite manage that due to unpredictable circumstances. PSOL's prediction of war with Iran is not something I'd bet on, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened given how close America was to ending up in one last time. An international crisis like that might shape his second term into something significantly different from his first.

[Ferguson97]

Destroying our institutions, embarrassing us abroad, and generally making life worse for everyone but rich white men.

[MillennialModerate]

Genuine hell.

Unfortunately I think the timing works so inflation and the economy will rebound around the time he takes office so he will get credit for it and the Dems won’t see much of a benefit in the ‘26 midterms

[Inmate Trump]

He would continue to attempt an override of democracy and America would be further down the road toward authoritarianism.