Can we send Trump into exile? It worked (sort of) with Napoleon

[marmar]

Can we send Trump into exile? It worked (sort of) with Napoleon
Tolstoy describes sending a defeated leader with no "human dignity" far, far away — and it sounds like a great idea

By KIRK SWEARINGEN
Contributing Writer
PUBLISHED JANUARY 28, 2024 6:00AM (EST)


(Salon) Judges overseeing the various criminal trials of Donald John Trump, our only ex-president with a mug shot, have repeatedly warned him that they'll have him removed from the courtroom if he cannot contain himself.

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For the sake of the rational citizens of the United States — still the great majority of us — not to mention the rest of the civilized world, don’t you think he needs to be removed a bit farther from view?

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There’s a class-inferiority complex, a hypersensitivity to criticism, a lack of concern for others and a demand for absolute power (and immunity) — to name merely a few personality quirks shared by Le Petit Caporal and the man we might call Les Petit Mains. As innumerable clinical psychologists have pointed out, both share megalomania and unbridled malignant narcissism.

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At what point will we realize that it will never be enough for juries to convict and sentence or fine Trump, or for the voters to reject him, since he will never accept either outcome? It's time to send him away to an island? We'll give him a golf course, so that “Pelé” Trump (as some caddies reportedly called him) can kick his balls back into the fairway, cheating at the very game that most relies on players' sense of honor. Even at 77, he is no more than an obstreperous child, and an unhinged and dangerous one at that. His endless claims to know more than anyone else on every imaginable topic stand as peerless examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect, and his mental faculties have clearly continued to erode. ............................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/01/28/can-we-send-into-exile-it-worked-sort-of-with-napoleon/

[mopinko]

1. will he exile himself?

the more he melts down, the more i think he’ll pull a runner. i think dubai wd b attractive to him. iirc, no extradition. or bunk up w his bonesaw buddies.
i cant say as i’d b mad about it.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. The refusal to restrain him gives me hope

Authorities are saying he can never complain he was silenced. Judgment Day is coming.

[viva la]

3. Has to be St. Helena.

Deep down the South Atlantic.

Napoleon escaped from the first nearby exile.

[coprolite]

4. Send him deep to lie beside

Bin Laden?

[viva la]

6. Oh, I wouldn't mind sending him just like Napoleon to that rocky outcrop--

in the frigid waters near the Antarctic. He can harangue and rant to the penguins.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Only if *rump is exiled to Gaza

Thanks for the thread marmar