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People would pretend to mind to push their own agendas, but no not really

As long as someone lives, there's always a chance they'll come to a realization and change their ways. If they're killed, that chance is gone. I don't have any hope that Trump will ever change his ways for the better. In fact, the longer he lives the more people he harms, so his death would be something to celebrate for that alone. But I would be celebrating the end of his evils, not the means by which the evils were ended or the person who carried it out.

In other words: "Oh no! Anyway...."

JD Vance will be very happy, so he’ll mind

The vast majority of people would be very happy. Literally cheering in the streets. That small minority that's not would be super dangerous, though.

Not an American, but my fear about Trump being assassinated is that he’ll become a martyr in the minds of the MAGA cult. They will see this as evidence that ”the liberal left is trying to silence them”.

Ideally, he would be impeached, prosecuted, sent to prison, and/or face the death penalty for treason and sedition against the United States.

Assassination is much more chaotic and I'd be worried about the next steps in that chaos. Overall, I'd celebrate, but there are worse people around him who are actually competent, so that would scare me.

Ideally, he would be impeached, prosecuted, sent to prison, and/or face the death penalty for treason and sedition against the United States.

Assassination is much more chaotic and I'd be worried about the next steps in that chaos. Overall, I'd celebrate, but there are worse people around him who are actually competent, so that would scare me.

Idk "The king is dead, long live the king!". Better educate the people

I think that it would be terrible, mostly due to the fact that A- you have power hungry people near Ronald McTrump, B- we know that MAGA can make a riotous mob without a good reason (January 6).

I think someone like JD would use Trump dying as an excuse to impose martial law and properly try to shut America as a democracy, and a great fraction of so called MAGA would follow in supporting that

My biggest objection would be that he’d become a martyr, and MAGA would gain adherents. I’d much rather he have a very public massive coronary, preferably as soon as possible. That, I would celebrate with no guilt whatsoever.

The people crushed in the martial-law crackdown that would opportunistically follow would probably mind

He's already staged two assassination attempts. If they say the third one for him, I'm going to assume he's living lavishly in Israel alongside Epstein & Charlie Kirk.

I would immediately hit the bottle....

...that I prepared earlier, and celebrate that the world has been spared the existence of this individual.

That bottle is just one of a few I have dedicated in my collection:

https://lemmy.zip/post/49216843

But then JD Vance. He knew what he was doing.

There will be parties like when Thatcher died.

My main emotion would be relief on hearing

Unless the assassin wipes out everyone associated with Project 2025, I think only hitting Trump would just rally support behind whoever gets propped up in his place.

I mean, I wouldn't even mind on 'principal'. He's an enemy to the American people. He is the biggest threat to all of us. The people that kill him will be heroes

It is never good to have a situation where the president can be assassinated or is not in charge of his faculties. He needs to be removed from office legitimately for the good of the country, to avoid fracturing it further.

I think this is likely given that he is such a colossal asshole, simply no one can form a real relationship with him (working or otherwise) because no one stand to be around him for very long. He is only capable of abusive relationships in which both parties use each other.

However, normally narcissists burn through and eventually run out of relationships to use for narcissistic supply. Unfortunately, because we have “elected” this extreme malignant narcissist as president of the most powerful nation on earth (for now at least), he has the entire world to abuse and churn through.

To answer your question, a great many people would mind. Although I think the event would just be used like every other event his rampaging ego has caused - taken advantage of by snakes and opportunists for their own gain and then discarded like so much political baggage. It would also become a springboard for JD Vance and every other fascist that has been flourishing under his administration.

I'm not convinced a president Vance would be any better.

You'd need a Case orange level event to get someone not terrible.

There are more probabilites that Trump dies of disease or old age than that he is assassinated.

Most people wouldn't mind until they realize that Couchfucker Vance is next in line.

Unless, y'know, someone were to take out all of Trump's predecessors and leave Trump to die of natural causes.

He has a devoted fan base which serves as his political base. They would be upset. Furthermore, look at the assassination of Charlie Kirk as an example. Right wing influencers would use his death to further their own goals and for self promotion. He would become a martyr.

For the record I hate the guy and he took my job.

Yes

As a Naturalized American, that would be really bad since... its probably martial law

I know someone is gonna say "but they're gonna do martial law anyways"

Well let's see the facts: we're 1 year in and no martial law yet... my internet is working fine and afiak uncensored... I can visit Chinese websites without a VPN here from the US

And the FBI is probably watching this forum btw....

I all I can say is: jailing someone is seen as more legitimate than an assassination, we have enough shit here, no need for a new martyr and a new, more intense cult rising out of it.

I wouldn't celebrate it, but I wouldn't shred a tear either. I would feel frightened... since white nationalists are gonna go even more crazy and gonna start killing minorities.

I would mostly be worried that we get a smarter and more capable fascist at the helm.

I wouldn't be ok that any human was killed before their time. Doesn't mean that I wouldn't be absolutely relieved he was gone.

Someone would, I would laugh.

Iran might be pissed but that is because killing political leaders is a completely dumb idea and a war crime. Which is why JD Vance is setting up to take out Trump for his own political purposes.

I honestly think he is suffering from severe dementia, so yeah I'd kind of feel bad. Yes, he's a horrible man, but no more so than any current member of Congress or tech billionaire encouraging him.