IMO, In 2020 we will be facing 40% unemployed and Ivanka Trump.

[CK_John]

Last run before the census reorders the Districts.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Even during the Great Depression the highest unemployment rate was about 25%.

So, no. And Ivanka won't run for dogcatcher because her old man will have been, if not actually impeached, thoroughly discredited. She'll be selling her cheap-shit handbags and knockoff costume jewelry through K-Mart if she's lucky.

Is this more performance art?

[CK_John]

2. K-Mart will disappear in about 6 weeks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. No, but they are closing a bunch of stores.

So she might have to sell her stuff through Dollar Tree stores, or maybe on those street corners where they sell black velvet paintings of Elvis and clowns.

[Doodley]

3. God, I hope so. Give me 40% unemployment and a depression if it means getting rid of bad rubbish

[Warpy]

5. Oh, the unemployment might be true

but Ivanka will be pushing 40 in 2020, past her "use by" date and no amount of starvation and Botox will convince voters otherwise. Jared might run on the strength of his brilliant performance as a globe trotting fix it man, but I wouldn't bet on it. Both will most likely prefer to retreat into their previous lives as rich kids.

For one thing, I doubt Dolt45 is going to last four years. Whatever replaces him will be nearly as bad but without the temper tantrums, so the economy will be borked. Ageain.

However, I doubt his family will be anything but disgraced and unable to run.

[snooper2]

6. Just go all the way LOL- unemployment will be 93% and Barron will be Resident!

Drumpf will just have congress amend the Constitution for age!

[CK_John]

7. Trump45 will be in a care facility and Ivanka will run the government for the

next 3+ years.

[JoeStuckInOH]

8. I believe we're headed for 20-30% unemployment in the next decade - UNRELATED to Trump.

Can't stop Automation. Americans demand higher wages and the cost of effective automation drops year-by-year. Eventually, the cost savings of automation can't be ignored by businesses.

I'll bet over 75% of professional drivers (cabs, escorts, trucking, transit, delivery, etc...) are out of a job in the next 10-15 years. Professional drivers employ the largest single "group" of employees in the US.

We're already watching retail stores, large and small, go out of business everywhere. Even in affluent communities. Internet shopping and the low overhead of drop-shipped imported goods directly to consumers is making brick and mortar retail stores an unsustainable business model. (ie: Amazon)

I also believe fast food workers will take a huge hit as well. In western europe, many of the fast food chain places already have ordering kiosks and you swipe your card after picking your items on the touch screen. It's only a matter of time before the food cooking is (even more) automated and it only takes 2 people to "run" a McDonalds.

I think cashiers will also all-but disappear... even in retail. There's stores out there where you scan the barcode with your smartphone as you put the item in your basket and that it... paid for. just leave when your done making selections and no lines to wait in for checkout.

[CK_John]

9. I agree.