So, if the president dies, the procedure is that the vice president would then become president for the remainder of the term.
But what would happen if some extremist group somehow kidnapped the president (any sitting president, so this isn’t targeted towards trump specifically, although I guess for the next 4 years it would be).
Like, lets say every Monday at noon, this extremist group did a live stream somehow, showing that the president is still alive, still coherent, but ballgagged so they can’t just blurt out where they are.
And lets say that nobody is able to figure out where they’re broadcasting from. For years.
Would that president remain president? Or would they treat them as dead, even though they’re shown to be alive, and vice president becomes president for the remainder of the term?
If the president was kidnapped by ninjas, we will send two dudes to rescue him and hope those dudes are bad enough to succeed.
Truly, if someone were to rescue this president, I think many would consider him to be a bad dude.
The same thing as if he were sick or otherwise “incapacitated.” Being locked up by kidnappers incapacitates you. The VP would step up. However impractical terms the VP would absolutely downplay this, always trying to give the impression that the president will be rescued any minute now and everything will go back to normal.
They would send some Bad Dudes to save him.
Totally not fbi, but will he be in that live stream this monday?
Are you planing to do it?
We don’t negotiate with terrorists/kidnappers. VP stays. VP motivated to organize this, maybe.
President of what?
I think it’s some kind of fan club???
Given Trump mention, presumably the US.
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I believe that if the president is incapacitated in any way the Vice President becomes Acting President. I guess they could stay in that role until the end of the term but if expect they’d use their new power in some fashion to make it more permanent.
Olympus Has Fallen was kind of about this in a way.
They would temporarily swear in the next in chain of command because the president is unable to perform duties. That’d be VP and then I think Speaker of the House.
put him in a gimp suit and cuff him to a lamp pole outside a Log Cabin Republican meeting. Just to see what happens.
Seriously, though, I suspect our would-be-kidnappers would be dead before they ever reached the prez. but the VP becomes the acting president whenever the president is incapacitated or otherwise unable to fulfill his duties, so it really doesn’t matter. The VP steps up, and takes over until the president comes back. this includes for things like surgeries and such, too.
You get a sick Metal Gear game
They would have an “acting” president to make decisions but if the hostage pres was freed they would be put back in charge
And welcome to the watchlist btw
I had no idea Andre the Giant played the violin! Wow! Princess Brides actor, pro-wrestler, astronaut, man who drank 96 beers a night. Slept with 20 women a night, and now violin player! What an interesting guy.
Snake Plissken gets called into action.
And a busty sidekick
