Sounds like he's contemplating suicide. We'll need to provide him lots of support when the hard times come.
My first thought is, "Do you promise, Donnie?" He's not exactly deincentivizing impeachment. But like a crack head who says that this will be his last crack rock and he's never going to smoke crack again after this one last hit, it'll never happen. Maybe he even believes it right now, but just no. He won't be able to follow through. Sounds like a 12 year old girl who gets grounded screaming, "You'll all be sorry when I'm dead" as she slams her bedroom door shut, to me.
New Gallup poll says support for Trump is holding steady, impeachment proceedings having as yet no discernible impact on his approval numbers: https://news.gallup.com/poll/268493/trump-approval-holds-steady-face-impeachment-probe.aspx
Turley comments: A new Gallup poll shows that, despite damaging testimony on the Ukrainian controversy, President Donald Trump’s popularity has not fallen and his support among Republicans remains extraordinarily high. The President has held steady at 43 percent popularity overall and an astronomical 90 percent among Republicans. In addition, a Marquette Poll in the critical state of Wisconsin shows support for impeachment falling, not rising among voters. Indeed, Trump is now beating potential Democratic rivals. I have written that the effort to reframe the impeachment as a bribery case may reflect the failure of the abuse of power theory to generate much support. The needle is simply not moving. The danger is that the hearings are playing mainly to an audience that is already firm in their views and not penetrating with most voters. It is not that the hearing are playing to an empty house as much as the hearings are playing to an audience that only hears the lines that they came to hear. This would be the narrowest impeachment in history. Many voters are likely skeptical about removing a president on a controversy over aid that was ultimately paid to Ukraine. More importantly, the Democrats are insisting on a vote by the end of December. That means this will be the thinnest evidentiary record in history. A successful impeachment requires a degree of maturation and saturation to allow the public opinion to move. That will not happen in the rush to a vote in the House on this very narrow ground for impeachment.
I don't think anyone did believe or does believe that Trump's base core support will change much at all no matter what.
hard to see how impeachment is helping the Dems' chances https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-election-leads-democratic-rivals/2663659001/ WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump, the first modern president to face impeachment during his first term in the White House, now leads his top Democratic rivals in his bid for a second, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds. The national survey, taken as the House of Representatives planned an impeachment vote and the Senate a trial, showed Trump defeating former Vice President Joe Biden by 3 percentage points, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by 5 points, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren by 8 points. In hypothetical head-to-head contests, Trump also led South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg by 10 points and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg by 9. Polls taken nearly a year before an election are hardly a reliable indicator about what the eventual outcome will be, especially when the other nominee hasn't been chosen. But the findings do indicate that impeachment hearings detailing what critics see as Trump's violations of the Constitution and his oath of office haven't undermined his core political support.