‘I can’t wait until this guy dies’: Tired of Trump, party members allegedly await his death

“Press them hard enough, and most Republican officials—even the ones with MAGA hats in their closets and Mar-a-Lago selfies in their Twitter avatar—will privately admit that Donald Trump has become a problem,” Coppins wrote, noting the decline in Republican wins since Trump was elected in 2016.

“Are they just hoping he gets indicted, and that just magically makes him disappear?” CNN host Erin Burnett asked Coppins during the interview.

He replied: “Well, literally, yes. That was one of the scenarios that I heard repeatedly. It was striking how consistently I heard, ‘The party needs to move on from Trump. We need to find a way to get rid of Trump.’”

Coppins noted that while surprised by how often he heard it, it wasn’t the first time he heard that GOP members wanted Trump just to disappear or “die.”

“I was taken aback by how often I heard this,” he said. “I thought it was kind of a morbid, dark joke at first. But I heard it so often that it started to become clear that this was actually what a lot of Republicans believe, and it just speaks to the desperation in the party.”

He added that the issue is most people don’t want to challenge Trump—so instead, they just hope something happens.

“There’s just this fear that if they go after him or if they try to rally around somebody else, they’ll spark a backlash from his base,” he said. “And so everybody is kind of waiting on the sidelines just hoping something will change.”

He continued on to talk about how many even hoped that Trump’s weight and age would eventually take a toll on him. In his piece, he even quoted former Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer as one of the GOP officials verifying that party members felt this way.

“You have a lot of folks who are just wishing for [Trump’s] mortal demise,” former Rep. Peter Meijer told Coppins, according to the article. “I want to be clear: I’m not in that camp. But I’ve heard from a lot of people who will go onstage and put on the red hat, and then give me a call the next day and say, ‘I can’t wait until this guy dies.’”

People across the country seem to be increasingly becoming fed up with Trump. Between his ignorant and ill-informed social media posts to threatening people, he should remain allies with Trump just keeps digging himself into a deeper hole.

Not to mention Coppins’ article follows Trump’s repeated claims that he trusts Russia’s president over his own director of national intelligence. According to The Independent, Trump not only denounced Democrats but also took a shot at Republicans in a recent post, claiming neither could be trusted.

How he expects to have the support of a party he continuously likes to defame is beyond me. Most recently, in a post on Truth Social, he described members of the intelligence community as “lowlifes.”

“Remember in Helsinki when a 3rd rate reporter asked me, essentially, who I trusted more, President Putin of Russia, or our ‘Intelligence’ lowlifes,” Trump wrote Monday.

He continued: “My instinct at the time was that we had really bad people in the form of James Comey, McCabe (whose wife was being helped out by Crooked Hillary while Crooked was under investigation!), Brennan, Peter Strzok (whose wife is at the SEC) & his lover, Lisa Page. Now add McGonigal & another slime to the list. Who would you choose, Putin or these Misfits?”

The language used is no surprise, but given his rocky reputation and plan to run for the 2024 GOP nomination, this is a bad move—even compared to Trump’s other bad moves. It’ll be no surprise when everyone—even those allegedly excited to run as his VP pick in 2024—inevitably drop him.