{"id":35219,"date":"2026-11-05T12:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/?p=35219"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:45:14","slug":"what-deranged-dictator-trump-might-do-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/what-deranged-dictator-trump-might-do-next\/","title":{"rendered":"What Deranged Dictator Trump Might Do Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_35219\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"35219\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.0\" viewBox=\"0 0 502 315\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\"><g transform=\"translate(0,332) scale(0.1,-0.1)\" fill=\"\" stroke=\"none\"><path d=\"M2394 3279 l-29 -30 -3 -207 c-2 -182 0 -211 15 -242 39 -76 157 -76 196 0 15 31 17 60 15 243 l-3 209 -33 29 c-26 23 -41 29 -80 29 -41 0 -53 -5 -78 -31z\"\/><path d=\"M3085 3251 c-45 -19 -58 -50 -96 -229 -47 -217 -49 -260 -13 -295 52 -53 146 -42 177 20 16 31 87 366 87 410 0 70 -86 122 -155 94z\"\/><path d=\"M1751 3234 c-13 -9 -29 -31 -37 -50 -12 -29 -10 -49 21 -204 19 -94 39 -189 45 -210 14 -50 54 -80 110 -80 34 0 48 6 76 34 21 21 34 44 34 59 0 14 -18 113 -40 219 -37 178 -43 195 -70 221 -36 32 -101 37 -139 11z\"\/><path d=\"M1163 3073 c-36 -7 -73 -59 -73 -102 0 -56 133 -378 171 -413 34 -32 83 -37 129 -13 70 36 67 87 -16 290 -86 209 -89 214 -129 231 -35 14 -42 15 -82 7z\"\/><path d=\"M3689 3066 c-15 -9 -33 -30 -42 -48 -48 -103 -147 -355 -147 -375 0 -98 131 -148 192 -74 13 15 57 108 97 206 80 196 84 226 37 273 -30 30 -99 39 -137 18z\"\/><path d=\"M583 2784 c-38 -19 -67 -74 -58 -113 9 -42 211 -354 242 -373 16 -10 45 -18 66 -18 51 0 107 52 107 100 0 39 -1 41 -124 234 -80 126 -108 162 -133 173 -41 17 -61 16 -100 -3z\"\/><path d=\"M4250 2784 c-14 -9 -74 -91 -133 -183 -95 -150 -107 -173 -107 -213 0 -55 33 -94 87 -104 67 -13 90 8 211 198 130 202 137 225 78 284 -27 27 -42 34 -72 34 -22 0 -50 -8 -64 -16z\"\/><path d=\"M2275 2693 c-553 -48 -1095 -270 -1585 -649 -135 -104 -459 -423 -483 -476 -23 -49 -22 -139 2 -186 73 -142 361 -457 571 -626 285 -228 642 -407 990 -497 242 -63 336 -73 660 -74 310 0 370 5 595 52 535 111 1045 392 1455 803 122 121 250 273 275 326 19 41 19 137 0 174 -41 79 -309 363 -465 492 -447 370 -946 591 -1479 653 -113 14 -422 18 -536 8z m395 -428 c171 -34 330 -124 456 -258 112 -119 167 -219 211 -378 27 -96 24 -300 -5 -401 -72 -255 -236 -447 -474 -557 -132 -62 -201 -76 -368 -76 -167 0 -236 14 -368 76 -213 98 -373 271 -451 485 -162 444 86 934 547 1084 153 49 292 57 452 25z m909 -232 c222 -123 408 -262 593 -441 76 -74 138 -139 138 -144 0 -16 -233 -242 -330 -319 -155 -123 -309 -223 -461 -299 l-81 -41 32 46 c18 26 49 83 70 128 143 306 141 649 -6 957 -25 52 -61 116 -79 142 l-34 47 45 -20 c26 -10 76 -36 113 -56z m-2057 25 c-40 -58 -105 -190 -130 -263 -110 -324 -59 -707 132 -981 25 -35 42 -64 37 -64 -19 0 -241 119 -326 174 -188 122 -406 314 -532 468 l-58 71 108 103 c185 178 428 349 672 473 66 33 121 60 123 61 2 0 -10 -19 -26 -42z\"\/><path d=\"M2375 1950 c-198 -44 -350 -190 -395 -379 -18 -76 -8 -221 19 -290 114 -284 457 -406 731 -260 98 52 188 154 231 260 27 69 37 214 19 290 -38 163 -166 304 -326 360 -67 23 -215 33 -279 19z\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/comic-riffs\/wp\/2018\/07\/12\/how-cartoons-are-skewering-trumps-tactics-with-nato-and-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/comic-riffs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/NATO-matson-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"Trump to leave NATO?\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><span class=\"dropcap\">N<\/span><strong>ow we&#8217;ve all had our little victory dances around the kitchen thanks to the USian voters&#8217; rejection of MAGA and the Deranged Dictator Trump in the midterms \u2014 <em>mostly<\/em> rejected, although not entirely<\/strong>: Repugnicans still won too many seats \u2014 we can settle down and start wondering what happens between now and the swearing-in of the new politicians in January. Trump and his cabinet full of sycophantic enablers, his pet Supreme Court justices, as well as the Senate and Congress MAGA still controls, have several weeks in which to wreak havoc and continue their destruction of USian democracy and its institutions. I expect they will take every advantage of that time to continue their work.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Trump really only has these few weeks to cement his legacy. After January, he will find resistance and legal challenges for almost everything he does. Not to mention the threat of being impeached again.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few possibilities to consider that Trump might act on before the New Year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nuke Iran.<\/strong>\u00a0Just before the midterms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-iran-hammer-carlson-nuclear-plot-12650264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump threatened to &#8220;hammer&#8221; Iran again,<\/a> without specifying when or how. But Putin&#8217;s puppet, the low-IQ, former MAGA sycophant, Tucker Carlson, posted that Trump was &#8220;within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran.&#8221; Trump has no effective way to exit from the war even he claims cost MAGA the midterms, and no plan how to carry it forward, either. The dictator is deranged enough to use nukes, despite the damage it would do to the USA&#8217;s reputation and alliances. Or the illegality of it. Of course, Carlson offered no proof, and might just have been making it up to gain views outside his diminishing cult audience. At the very least, we can expect Trump to escalate his attacks on Iran.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legally challenge selected results.<\/strong> Widespread speculation before the election suggested the Dictator Trump would use his pet DOJ to launch legal challenges against any results he didn&#8217;t like. While he has since said he accepted the results (this from a man with a world-record history of lying&#8230;), the DOJ remains his weapon of choice against anyone whom he believes slighted or annoyed him. Don&#8217;t rule out him using it in tight races like Alaska and Mississippi if Dems win there. And against any winning Democrat Muslim, woman, or person of colour. He is, after all, a racist and misogynist.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pre-emptively pardon everyone in the White House and Cabinet.<\/strong> With the very real threat of impeachment and legal action against his puppets and enablers, Trump could issue blanket presidential pardons for any- and everything they&#8217;ve done in his name. He might even offer a blanket pardon for the SpaceNazi Musk, whose behaviour, bribes, and companies will likely be investigated by Dems.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pre-emptively pardon members of his crime family.<\/strong> His kids and their spouses will get pardons for their egregious corruption, insider dealing, and grifting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meidasplus.com\/p\/melanias-art-of-the-grift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melania will probably get one,<\/a> too, although it&#8217;s possible Trump will, instead, punish her for not being the subservient, ever-present trophy wife and leave her off the list of pardons.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Get his &#8220;Triumphal&#8221; arch approved.<\/strong> Trump will never, ever let go of a vanity project, regardless of how tacky or narcissistic it appears (and <em>all<\/em> of his vanity projects do). He wants his legacy to be remembered visibly, even though he has nothing to celebrate and no triumphs anyone will ever recognize once he leaves office, outside of a few die-hard MAGA cultists.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cut off Ukraine.<\/strong> In an effort to appease his puppet master, Putin, Trump will do everything he can to destabilize, cut off, alienate, and harm Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leave NATO.<\/strong> Dictator Trump hates NATO because his puppet master, Putin, hates NATO. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/01\/trump-nato-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threatened to leave NATO<\/a> already this year. Back in 2017, he dismissed NATO as \u201cobsolete.\u201d He accused other NATO members of \u201cripping off\u201d the US because they weren&#8217;t spending enough on defence. In 2024, he said he would tell Putin and Russia to do \u201cwhatever the hell they want\u201d to any European country. This would open the door for Russia to invade the Baltic states and Poland, as a start to Putin&#8217;s goal of restoring the old USSR empire. Trump&#8217;s withdrawal from NATO would help him do it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expand the DOJ&#8217;s attacks on his perceived enemies.<\/strong> In the final few weeks, I expect Trump to demand the DOJ investigate and charge more of his opponents or critics. Even if they fail to gain convictions (as they have so far), they can tie up the agency and its resources, as well as their victims, for months, if not Trump&#8217;s remaining years in office.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expand the FCC&#8217;s attack on free speech.<\/strong> Trump has already used the FCC to punish and then get Stephen Colbert fired. He still wants Jimmy Kimmel off air, and will likely turn his ire to Kimmel, Jon Stewart, and other late-night hosts who have mocked or criticized him. Trump, as he has shown both terms, despises free speech.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Withdraw from the United Nations completely<\/strong>. Trump has already withdrawn the US from and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/02\/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-and-ending-funding-to-certain-united-nations-organizations-and-reviewing-united-states-support-to-all-international-organizations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ended funding for 31 UN agencies and organizations<\/a>, including \u00a0UNHRC; the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), saying these agencies have acted &#8220;contrary to the interests of the United States.&#8221;\u00a0 The US also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/1\/8\/trump-to-withdraw-us-from-dozens-of-un-international-organisations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withdrew from more than 30 forums for cooperation on climate change, peace and democracy<\/a>. Again, this would benefit Putin, Xi, and other autocrats.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cut foreign aid even more.<\/strong> Trump already let the SpaceNazi Elon Musk and his DOGE terrorists cut funding that USAID and other agencies used to help developing nations. Children died from these cuts. This allowed his boss, Putin, and his much-admired friend, Xi, to offer aid to those nations \u2014 at the cost of one-sided contracts to extract resources and crippling debt servicing. And it greatly lowered the USA&#8217;s reputation in the eyes of those nations and the world. Expect him to cut any remaining aid entirely.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Have the remaining Epstein files destroyed by the DOJ.<\/strong> Next year, all those nasty files will be made public; his dirty secrets and his pedophilia will be exposed even more, unless Trump can have the files destroyed before the Dems get ahold of them. The DOJ will try to cover up their action, of course, but it will be leaked. Maybe the files will be leaked before the DOJ can destroy them. What they reveal will be horrific.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Litigate more.<\/strong> Trump has a history of suing people, media outlets, and organizations which he says have slighted or hurt him. It&#8217;s often just a performance, intended to distract media and public attention from his role in the Epstein files. But until those remaining files are destroyed, he needs to keep up the distractions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lie about why MAGA lost the midterms.<\/strong> He&#8217;s already been doing this. He has blamed his anointed candidates, the war he started, his favourite propaganda outlet Fox Newz, and not being on the ballot (even though he was on it, in proxy). He will <em>never<\/em> take responsibility for the loss, <em>never<\/em> admit his own actions, policies, or statements were even a part of the problem. He will find others to blame in the next weeks, likely taking shots at Vance, DeSantis, Cruz, and other former MAGA loyalists who have since blamed or criticized him. Some of those he blames will be turfed out of office or jobs. Vance won&#8217;t get his endorsement to run in 2028.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Destroy the remaining national parks.<\/strong> Trump already started to destroy publicly owned national parks by opening them up for resource extraction and development. He will expedite that by doing his utmost to have them all turned into places for corporations to exploit. Probably for a tidy cash purchase of his crypto coin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are more things the Dictator will do to the detriment of the USian democracy and economy, but which will benefit himself and his crime family. I will not be surprised by violence he or his followers instigate, since that&#8217;s in the DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Words: <span class=\"sbs-number-words\">1,330<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_35219\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"35219\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.0\" viewBox=\"0 0 502 315\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\"><g transform=\"translate(0,332) scale(0.1,-0.1)\" fill=\"\" stroke=\"none\"><path d=\"M2394 3279 l-29 -30 -3 -207 c-2 -182 0 -211 15 -242 39 -76 157 -76 196 0 15 31 17 60 15 243 l-3 209 -33 29 c-26 23 -41 29 -80 29 -41 0 -53 -5 -78 -31z\"\/><path d=\"M3085 3251 c-45 -19 -58 -50 -96 -229 -47 -217 -49 -260 -13 -295 52 -53 146 -42 177 20 16 31 87 366 87 410 0 70 -86 122 -155 94z\"\/><path d=\"M1751 3234 c-13 -9 -29 -31 -37 -50 -12 -29 -10 -49 21 -204 19 -94 39 -189 45 -210 14 -50 54 -80 110 -80 34 0 48 6 76 34 21 21 34 44 34 59 0 14 -18 113 -40 219 -37 178 -43 195 -70 221 -36 32 -101 37 -139 11z\"\/><path d=\"M1163 3073 c-36 -7 -73 -59 -73 -102 0 -56 133 -378 171 -413 34 -32 83 -37 129 -13 70 36 67 87 -16 290 -86 209 -89 214 -129 231 -35 14 -42 15 -82 7z\"\/><path d=\"M3689 3066 c-15 -9 -33 -30 -42 -48 -48 -103 -147 -355 -147 -375 0 -98 131 -148 192 -74 13 15 57 108 97 206 80 196 84 226 37 273 -30 30 -99 39 -137 18z\"\/><path d=\"M583 2784 c-38 -19 -67 -74 -58 -113 9 -42 211 -354 242 -373 16 -10 45 -18 66 -18 51 0 107 52 107 100 0 39 -1 41 -124 234 -80 126 -108 162 -133 173 -41 17 -61 16 -100 -3z\"\/><path d=\"M4250 2784 c-14 -9 -74 -91 -133 -183 -95 -150 -107 -173 -107 -213 0 -55 33 -94 87 -104 67 -13 90 8 211 198 130 202 137 225 78 284 -27 27 -42 34 -72 34 -22 0 -50 -8 -64 -16z\"\/><path d=\"M2275 2693 c-553 -48 -1095 -270 -1585 -649 -135 -104 -459 -423 -483 -476 -23 -49 -22 -139 2 -186 73 -142 361 -457 571 -626 285 -228 642 -407 990 -497 242 -63 336 -73 660 -74 310 0 370 5 595 52 535 111 1045 392 1455 803 122 121 250 273 275 326 19 41 19 137 0 174 -41 79 -309 363 -465 492 -447 370 -946 591 -1479 653 -113 14 -422 18 -536 8z m395 -428 c171 -34 330 -124 456 -258 112 -119 167 -219 211 -378 27 -96 24 -300 -5 -401 -72 -255 -236 -447 -474 -557 -132 -62 -201 -76 -368 -76 -167 0 -236 14 -368 76 -213 98 -373 271 -451 485 -162 444 86 934 547 1084 153 49 292 57 452 25z m909 -232 c222 -123 408 -262 593 -441 76 -74 138 -139 138 -144 0 -16 -233 -242 -330 -319 -155 -123 -309 -223 -461 -299 l-81 -41 32 46 c18 26 49 83 70 128 143 306 141 649 -6 957 -25 52 -61 116 -79 142 l-34 47 45 -20 c26 -10 76 -36 113 -56z m-2057 25 c-40 -58 -105 -190 -130 -263 -110 -324 -59 -707 132 -981 25 -35 42 -64 37 -64 -19 0 -241 119 -326 174 -188 122 -406 314 -532 468 l-58 71 108 103 c185 178 428 349 672 473 66 33 121 60 123 61 2 0 -10 -19 -26 -42z\"\/><path d=\"M2375 1950 c-198 -44 -350 -190 -395 -379 -18 -76 -8 -221 19 -290 114 -284 457 -406 731 -260 98 52 188 154 231 260 27 69 37 214 19 290 -38 163 -166 304 -326 360 -67 23 -215 33 -279 19z\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Now we&#8217;ve all had our little victory dances around the kitchen thanks to the USian voters&#8217; rejection of MAGA and the Deranged Dictator Trump in the midterms \u2014 mostly rejected, although not entirely: Repugnicans still won too many seats \u2014 we can settle down and start wondering what happens between now and the swearing-in of the new politicians in January. Trump and his cabinet full of sycophantic enablers, his pet Supreme Court justices, as well as the Senate and Congress MAGA still controls, have several weeks in which to wreak havoc and continue their destruction of USian democracy and its \u2026&#8230;&#8230; click below for more \u2193<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,1760,2000,219],"tags":[2133,2134,2135],"class_list":["post-35219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-politics","category-rightwing-claptrap","category-trump-fascism","category-us-international-politics","tag-midterms","tag-nato","tag-trumps-legacy"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":25,"today_views":4},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35219"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35233,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219\/revisions\/35233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}