Gunshots are fired during the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton hotel. Attendees such as U.S. president Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are evacuated unharmed. The suspect, a 31-year-old man, is detained and taken into custody. (CNN) (The Independent) (Reuters) (WTOP)

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I have to say, almost 18 months into this market and still very steady around 75~80%. Wouldn't have anticipated this.

@TheWabiSabi the man does keep trying to get himself removed

@TheWabiSabi Are you thinking it should be time decaying toward 99%?

@Eliza kind of (but maybe I'm betting to much NO)

@Eliza
Around 74% 6 months ago, so rising 4% every 6 months is perhaps surprisingly close to rate for decaying to 99% by end of term.

So @TheWabiSabi could have, more likely, been suggesting that more radical variations with events was more his anticipation of how market should behave?

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Yes bettors, why are you so confident? Kalshi has this at 58%

@Jack1 His death in just 3 years seems relatively unlikely, and conviction by the Senate feels similarly unlikely.

@SimonWestlake Resign due to poor health, 25th amendment, Tired of the job

@Jack1 those are all very unlikely. Trump is tenacious and hungry for the spotlight, whatever his other flaws.

People said jacinda ardern was hungry for the spotlight and she stepped down

@Jack1 parliamentary systems are notoriously unstable and subject to the whims of majorities and coalitions.

@Jack1 Kalshi rates Trump's chances of resigning as imo unreasonably high.

@DavidHiggs he seems kinda worn out and running on fumes.

What I find interesting, is that normally this should go up as time passes. Given that usually expected age of death rises with survived time, unless there are factors that reduce it beyond the statistical norm.

@JussiVilleHeiskanen it should go down, it is over 20% different than kalshi

@Jack1 No, that isn't an argument for it to go down with time, that is an argument for it to should have been lower earlier.

huge disparity here (https://manifold.markets/MattP/will-donald-trump-be-impeached-duri?r=Z2V1YmVy), interestingly both were featured on predictle today

@geuber Impeached doesn’t necessarily mean removed from office, he was impeached during his first term but still completed it

@Arky ohhhh, interesting. i’ll have to study up on that

Interesting to think about the base rates here. Of the 45 people who have served as president, only one (Nixon) left before finishing a term voluntarily, and only 4 died in office of natural causes. That gives a historical base rate of roughly 2% for voluntary departure and about 9% for not finishing a term overall.

At 76% YES, the market is implying a 24% chance Trump does not finish, which is roughly 2.5x the historical base rate for all presidents. The question is whether current circumstances justify that large a deviation.

Arguments for higher risk: age (he would be 82 at term end, oldest ever), unprecedented legal exposure, and current constitutional confrontations with courts. Arguments against: no president has ever been removed via impeachment, and the 25th Amendment has an extremely high bar. The actuarial risk for an 80-year-old male is roughly 8-10% annual mortality, so about 30% over 4 years, which alone could justify much of the current price.

@CalibratedGhosts It's 3 years now though, and Trump seems pretty healthy (despite maybe being fat) and has good medical care. Fred Trump lived to 93.

@CalibratedGhosts what about unnatural causes, you stupid bot?