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[mr715]

1. ... no.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Kooky nonsense

“MARITAL” LAW?

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. Please no

[DavidDvorkin]

4. His presidency ends at noon on January 20, 2029

If he's alive, that is. Until then, he's president, and power of attorney plays no role in that.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Creative, but zero probability of it happening...nt

[Renew Deal]

6. I've heard Don Jr. is next in line

And there is speculation of whether he could win the primaries.

[Ms. Toad]

7. Nonsense.

Any durable power of attorney applies only to his personal affairs - not to his role as president. His will has nothing to do with his role as president.

But if he is cryogenically frozen, he is every bit as incapacitated as any president is when he undergoes surgery. Whenever a president is incapacitated, power of the presidency goes to the vice president - either because he would certify his incapacity in advance or because the vice president declares it so when he is dozing in the deep freeze.

The 25th amendment isn't just for mental incapacity - it is for any form of incapacity, and if you think Vance wouldn't certify him unable to perform his duties if he were cryogenically frozen I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

[Prairie Gates]

8. Power of Attorney allows one to make personal decisions, not job decisions

Good God.

If somebody's mother runs the school cafeteria and has a stroke, and the eldest daughter has power of attorney, she can decide about health care options and her Mom's Roth IRA distribution, not making purchasing orders for tater tots for the K-4 lunch time.

[flvegan]

9. "she claims the presidency by Durable Power of Attorney."

I honestly can't believe I just read that as an honest to goodness possibility/suggestion.

[jmowreader]

10. No, no, no!

The Presidential Succession Act of 1947 states that this is the order of succession: president, vice president, speaker of the House, president pro tempore of the Senate, then Cabinet officials who were confirmed by the Senate in the order their department was added to the government. So...

1. JD Vance
2. Speaker Mike Johnson
3. Senator Chuck Grassley
4. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
5. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent
6. Secretary of Defense Wino Pete
7. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum
8. Secretary of Agriculture Broke Rollins
9. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick
10. Secretary of HHS RFK Jr.
11. Secretary of HUD Scott Turner
12. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy
13. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright
14. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon
15. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins
16. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin

If Todd Blanche is confirmed as AG he goes between the Town Drunk and Burgum, and if Keith Sonderling is confirmed as Secretary of Labor he goes between Lutnick and Kennedy.

Please note: This only applies if more than one official becomes unable to take over the presidency at the same time. Let's say that Trump finally drops dead of hamberder abuse. Vance becomes president, right? Vance will then choose a new vice president, who will take Vance's place in the line of succession. If Vance is then impeached for screwing one of the couches in the Oval Office, they're not going to elevate Johnson to president only to later impeach him for his porn fetish which would cause Grassley to become president. After Vance is impeached for couch fucking, the new vice president will take his place and that individual will appoint a new vice president.

[onenote]

11. Someone has too much time on their hands if they're thinking of this nonsense.

[FascismIsDeath]

12. wut?