But let's just say for a moment that Trump tries it. Refuses to pack up and leave as is tradition on inauguration day and says publicly or even privately that he isn't going to budge. He would be removed, forcibly if necessary by the Secret Service.

The minute the new President says "So Help Me God" The Secret Service would grab him by the elbows and walk him to the front gate.

Of this I have absolutely no doubt.

The government of this country, meaning those people the asshole right likes to call "The Deep State" is populated by career professionals and patriots who just wouldn't stand still for that kind of bullshit.

That includes the Secret Service

Why we have to act like GOPers with this kind of stuff, is beyond me.

He won’t sit through his successor’s inaugural. Even if he somehow managed to stand for re-election, won, and lived through two entire terms, he wouldn’t do it. Unless it was Ivanka.

Let's say a democrat is elected in 2020 and Trump refuses to leave. Would federal troops go to the WH to evict or to protect Trump? I could see Ryan and McConnell either dragging their feet to recognize a democrat being duly elected. They'd want congressional investigations for a rigged election and until that time, leave Trump in the WH to run the country.

(Before 2016, with McConnell refusing to process Obama's nomination for the USSC, I would have thought the above proposition to be ridiculous. IMO, he would do it again, but this time to extend the constitutional tenure of Trump.)


OTOH, if another republican either won the republican primary and the general election in 2020 or2024, there may not be so much support to keep Trump. I think a military escort out of the WH would be expected.

The Secret Service is duty bound to the OFFICE, not the man.

As I said above, they would pick him up and deposit him on Pennsylvania Avenue, rather unceremoniously.

If you search YouTube, you will find numerous videos about Air Force One, it's operations, pilots and and it's caretakers.

The 89th Airlift Wing in its operation of the aircraft the President flies in, serves the office of the President, not an individual. Again, those people are career professionals who respect the Constitution. They would no sooner respect Trump insisting he was still president after he lost an election than they would respond to a request by you or I to fly them somewhere.

Maybe he'll be the first POTUS taken out strapped to a hand cart. One way or another he's going.

He definitely won’t attend the inauguration.

Should they still control the house and senate. I can see them THEN insisting that irregularities in the election mean that the electoral college votes can’t be certified and they have to choose.

They might pick a different republican though, depending on the degree of kompromat and what Putin wants then.

All the more reason to vote in 2018.