Tuesday, January 06, 2026

'Dictator' Trump Threatens to 'cancel the election'

Donald Trump ... accused "the fake news" of calling him a dictator after saying "they should cancel the election".

Posted by qcp at 09:30 PM | 19 COMMENTS | permalink

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Trump complained about even having to run against Democrats before floating the idea.

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-- The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) Jan 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM

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I listened to Trump's yap to the House GOPers. The whole thing, a stream of consciousness performance that anyone with a reasonable claim to being considered normal cannot help but find deeply disturbing.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-01-06 01:45 PM

"they should cancel the election".

POSTED BY QCP

This is Donald Trump the Dictator telling you what he's going to do.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-06 03:00 PM

Cancel Trump.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-06 09:24 PM

"Trump Threatens to 'cancel the election'"

Why not? It's not like anyone is going to stop him.

Jill Stein 2028!

#4 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-06 09:39 PM

@#4 ... Why not? It's not like anyone is going to stop him. ...

First, he has to invoke the Insurrection Act.

It looks like he has been trying to provoke cities to give him a reason to invoke that Act.

But, so far, it looks like the cities have not responded in the manner he had hoped.


What might his next tactics be to the end of invoking the Insurrection Act?

Or might he just invoke it just before the election, regardless of the legality of doing so.

Knowing that legal challenges will take time, but the elections would have been cancelled?


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-06 09:47 PM

#5 | Posted by LampLighter

I've heard that said before about the insurrection act and I don't understand where people get the idea that law would allow a president to cancel elections when Congress controls election dates. Even if the presidential election was cancelled, the Constitution explicitly states the term of the president and vp ends at noon on Jan 20. There's no provision that would allow Trump to remain President beyond that time.

Please explain where this idea about the insurrection comes from?

#6 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-01-07 02:08 AM

@#6 ... Please explain where this idea about the insurrection comes from? ...

Explainer: Why the "casual invocation" of the Insurrection Act by President Trump is so unusual
www.hks.harvard.edu

... HKS Senior Lecturer Juliette Kayyem explains what the act is and why Trump is suggesting using it. ...

And I want to clear about this: the military is totally integrated in supporting communities when they need them. Whether it was Hurricane Katrina or during an Olympics, they are there.

The idea that their vast resources aren't used is a misunderstanding of how the local, state, and federal capacity is aligned.

What we saw with the National Guard in D.C. illustrated this.

An insurrection means state government can't work; that's the way it is defined in the Insurrection Act. And yet federal troops were deployed, and what did they do?

They picked up trash. It is so expensive to deploy the military in this way.

There is now a sense that this expansive definition of an insurrection could extend to the mid-term elections, where this administration can deploy the military to cities simply to intimidate voting. ...


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-07 03:04 AM

If there's a way, Trump will find it. He and Putin are in too deep now to let a little thing like an election stop them.

There are several ways Trump can win back the hearts and minds of voters ~~ the most obvious, of course, would be the economy, i.e. a drastic drop in prices that hit the family budget the hardest ~ groceries, Gasoline, energy, etc. a month or two right before the General in 2028.

It would be a trick, of course, but remember, it was a trick about the price of groceries that got him elected in the first place. Lesson being: There's no accounting for the stupidity of voters. Give them some extra money and they're as happy as a pig in a mud puddle.

It would be very hard for a Democrat to win the presidency with that kind of headwind.

#8 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-01-07 03:21 AM

@#8 ... If there's a way, Trump will find it. ...

Even if there is not a current way, Pres Trump may create one.

And the ~in his pocket SCOTUS~ will give him a pass to do so.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-07 03:51 AM

LAMP

Rather than the "strong man" image and violence, Trump has to find a way to trick the voters into trusting the Republican Party again.

Extra money in the pocket of the gullible usually does the trick.

I can almost hear the rollout of the new Republican candidate now. Someone with the name of Trump or Kushner, just to keep it in the family.

Of course, if Trump is a full-blown dictator by then, he'll just name his successor or maybe have a mock election like in Russia.

#10 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-01-07 04:19 AM

If it were me, I would be finagling behind the scenes to have Vance agree to the following plan: Once I, the President, resign, for health reasons, he automatically rises to President, at which point he pardons me, my family, my entire massive gang of grifters and insurrectionist, and then Vance agrees not to run again for President and the Republican Party has a full primary season and somehow find a non-Trump rational person to run for office.
It is what Nixon did though they first had to fire their sitting VP, Agnew, and have the party hack, Gerald Ford, become VP and then President.

#11 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-01-07 06:58 AM

"the Republican Party has a full primary season and somehow find a non-Trump rational person to run for office."

Difficult among national Republicans these days. And what if most of the remaining Republican voters still want Trumpism, regardless of the name? Seems like they do. What are the Republican Party's ideas?

#12 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-01-07 07:31 AM

Most likely, once the insurrection is claimed, martial law follows.

I don't think that will end well with Americans.

#13 | Posted by BBQ at 2026-01-07 02:10 PM

If needed ok, but if this is another "it makes me feel good" Trumpism, I think it would get 350 million people's critical attention.

#14 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-07 04:59 PM

Folks announcing that an election is going to be canceled, and actually believing that, should be put in a mental health facility until they regain contact with reality. It's never happened and never will.

#15 | Posted by TheMajorKong at 2026-01-07 06:23 PM

"Most likely, once the insurrection is claimed, martial law follows."

And after that Civil War follows.

No worries.

America is gonna cancel Trumpy in two years. Or even sooner if Democrats regain power in the mid terms.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-07 07:08 PM

It's never happened and never will.

#15 | POSTED BY THEMAJORKONG

And.. If you haven't learned the lesson yet..

In Trumplandia just because something has never happened before doesn't really mean anything anymore.

Everything this administration does is unprecedented.

Like Trumpy's THIRD impeachment will be.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-07 07:13 PM

The insurrection act is a predecessor to invoking restrictions on the press and potentially martial law. Given Trump's desire to become King (read dictator) any step toward suppressing dissent can morph into shutting down any media he declares seditious and to invoking the need to suspend elections.

#18 | Posted by Augustine at 2026-01-07 11:45 PM

States run their Federal elections. If red states want to cancel their elections and leave their seats unfilled in congress, have at it. Blue states could use the boost.

#19 | Posted by dibblda at 2026-01-08 12:51 AM

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