You ever met a narcissist? They have machinations while pursuing power, but rarely when weilding it
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Perhaps power itself is his endgame. Like Putin who he envies. Everything Trump does is to maintain and grow his power. This video was enlightening on the subject: https://youtu.be/1iZcXn8uDis
Orwell is quoted in the comments and is prophetical:
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
George Orwell, 1984
Nah.
He desperately wanted to be POTUS again so he didnt go to jail.
Since then hes really just enriching himself generally.
I presume he would like to ensure he doesn't go to jail in the future somehow, but IDK if thats a specific end game or a general goal.
I bet hes asked doctors whether its possible to transplant him into Barron's body.
Trump, personally?
He has never been loved. He desperately wants to be loved. But he has absolutely no idea what that means, and so nothing he does is working or can ever work. He thinks adulation from adoring fans is love. He thinks money is love. He thinks being powerful means people will love him, and that hurting other people makes him powerful. The "there are only winners and losers in life and to be a winner you need to make other people losers" thing he learned from his terrible father.
But since none of that is true he's got a gaping black hole inside him that never gets filled no matter how much he tries to cram these things into it.
If he were younger I'd have some vague slight hope that he might someday be able to recover from this. But it's far too late now, he's a broken husk of a human being that does nothing but hurt everyone around him. I hope he dies immediately, if not sooner.
Project 2025.
Exactly. HE doesn't have a plan, but his handlers sure do.
Yeah, he's just a vessel for the oligarchs to steer. He'll scrape money from any step he can and they'll gladly let him as he is getting them what they want. He said in the early 90s he wanted to make the presidency profitable for himself, and anyone around him knows he is easily bought
Make the rich richer. Easy.
Pump and dump, baby. It is what he does.
Other than that he's got no plan, he's too stupid. To find the plan you'd have to look at who is influencing Captain 73.
His endgame is to feed his ego. Anything else is just an accessory to that.
He wants to keep making illegal moves and having his appointed judges sign off on them until he has absolute uncontested power, and part of that includes creating civil unrest and war so that he can use martial law and wartime powers to impose his will.
His endgame is to just stay in office until the day he dies.
I might be very okay with that last part, conditional on timing.
Nah, fuck that, I want him removed tomorrow and sent to prison within the year.
I want that too, but I'll gladly accept a toilet aneurysm today.
Just as a friend said about him: "Möge ihn der Blitz beim Scheissen treffen!", literally "May lightning hit him while he is shitting!".
I’ll put it simply: he envies Putin
Money, fame, access to higher, more depraved kind of pleasures... what do you think was and still is the endgame of aristocrats? These people don't care about their own children, why would you think they care about anyone besides themselves, in the basest way possible too? Have some discernment and remember everything that comes out of their mouth is spin. 👍
Both, and there's more than one end game because there's multiple factions behind Trump who have slightly different end games in mind. There is a shared purpose and common cause built up around Trump but also some fundamental tensions within the party about what the post-Constitutional order will look like once they've fully consolidated power.
He is chaotically making it up along the way. When he's polarizing even his voterbase at times, it is a clear sign that this guy is nothing but destruction unchecked.
The Republicans now, can only wish they'd have someone like George W Bush in office again because at least that's someone who they know can dupe easily into supporting every crooked idea they have in mind.
With Trump, only Project 2025, the establishment of DOGE, letting ICE run around recklessly and force-pressuring Democrats to play ball is all that's in the playbook. Anything else, it is just carnage.
End game not so much, rather a tendency where the world around him reflects his inflated ego by leaving some sort of legacy bearing his name: a nobel price or resolving a major conflict or annexing some other nation.
In addition to what's been mentioned, he has certain protections as long as he's President.
Trump can't do anything. He's been stripped of power by the International Common Law Court of Justice, of which trumps (pun intended) both cannon and legal law.
Proof is here: https://murderbydecree.com/2025/10/06/__trashed/
Some other notable peeps are Rutte, Prevost (Pope Leo XIV), and the Windors. Common Law applies to everyone, including these punks who think they're above the law.