When Trump dies I will get to the local supermarket and Make sure I have enough supplies to last me 10 days. Then I will lock my doors and lay low, because things will be crazy.

Trump’s supporters worship him. They will go nuts when their God dies. Right wing bloggers and podcasts will spread all kinds of insane lies and conspiracies. Trump’s supporters will believe them. They will go crazy and few of us will be safe.

I will be relieved that he’s gone, but, in many ways Trump will be more dangerous dead than alive.

As things stand now, if Trump were to keel over tomorrow, which is not unlikely at 79 years old, here’s what will most surely happen:

• First, a five-day period where we will be treated to Trump’s private doctor announcing he is resting and still the healthiest President the Milky Way has ever seen. Eventually, the truth will be leaked out to the base by a Fox News host who will be promptly fired.
• There will be no celebrations of Trump’s death anywhere. Except plastered all over pro-Trump networks like Fox and OANN. Truth Social will also be chock-full of memes about celebrations. Some of these memes will use very wrong footage where MAGA hats can be seen, but no-one will care. There will be many violent ideas about how to stop these celebrations.
• The base will be energized to seek immediate revenge upon anyone who is not contrite and perfectly convincing in telling people that Trump was a living saint. No amount of mourning will be found to be enough. They will be livid at any quoting of Trump’s actual words, many of which are replete with lack of empathy, unspeakable cruelty, and total disrespect for people both living and dead.
• Pro-Trump entertainment networks posing as news outlets will happily give forum to anyone with a conspiracy theory about how Trump actually died, what was written on the bullet, who the killer was paid by (besides Soros) and who they dated (no cash reward for those of you who guessed a Trans athelete performing involuntary sex change operations in unisex bathrooms).
• Folks like JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and Greg Abbott will waste not a second in declaring themselves the only successor to the Trump political dynasty. Ted Cruz will do it gleefully, convincing no-one.
• The Supreme Court will immediately announce that their Presidential immunity rulings have mysteriously expired, or more precisely are now limited to only dead Presidents, and only some dead Presidents. How strange!
• The social networks will be flooded with very loud folks yelling the Civil War / Race War / Rapture / Apocalypse has finally begun. But only 3 Proud Boys will actually show up and get arrested (and later pardoned).

Of course, as others have pointed out, if DJT manages to live long enough to succeed in installing himself as a Putinesque dictator (his dream) then things will play out differently. For example:

• The period in which the public will not know about his death may extend to over a month, beating Stalin’s record by, like, a lot.
• JD Vance will be waving a birth certificate that proves he is DJT’s illegitimate son.
• (Not funny) The persecution of liberal thinkers will reach a new height of intensity. We may finally witness the first execution of someone for calling the regime Nazis.