The 80-year-old was met with a smattering of applause, but even he did not seem excited by the moment.

Donald Trump has announced he will run for president in 2028 during a rambling speech to the Washington press corps.

Trump was speaking at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner when he appeared to make the announcement.

I won three times, now I’m gonna do it again,” he said, while putting on a cap that read “Trump 2028″.

“I’m gonna do it again. It should be easy.”

He went on to add that he won in 2020 but the election was rigged.

The 80-year-old was met with a smattering of applause, but even he did not seem excited by the moment.

Over the dead body of every patriot that stands for the Constitution, which reads in pertinent part:

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

-22nd Amendment

*Edit: Here’s the video of his announcement:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xyzWui2OX2I&t=2s&pp=2AECkAIB

He seem like he’s just joking to you?

  • flandish@lemmy.world
    6·
    51 minutes ago

    it’s a stark reminder that the constitution is not immutable. amendments are changes, and they may seem “hard to do” but with this regime and supreme court, they won’t stop until they pretend they did this legally. remember: nazis were legal.

  • flandish@lemmy.world
    2·
    45 minutes ago

    they’re gonna claim “term” means something longer than 4 years; biden got in illegally; therefore trump would still be in his first term.

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    3 hours ago

    If I could trust the system to actually enforce the Constitution, I’d say bring it on. The 22nd amendment never prohibits running when you’re ineligible to be elected. I’d actually love to see him run, “win”, and then have to watch his opponent get sworn in because he’s not eligible.

    IF I could actually trust that the Constitution would be enforced.

  • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    6 hours ago

    Good Lord. If trump looked any more like roadkill, he’d have to fight to keep RFK Jr from trying to eat him. He looks like absolute dogshit. I didn’t think it was possible for somebody to look worse than Steve Bannon, and to be fair it’s really fucking close, but trump does manage to look like a slightly worse, bloated corpse here.

    But he’s also a shitty president and a shitty person. Fuck trump. I can’t wait to open my bottle of bourbon when it happens.

  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world
    115·
    8 hours ago

    Why is this site acting like the joke he made at the correspondents dinner that happened months ago was a real announcement?

    Also why are so many users pushing this narrative that he’s just testing the waters now? Where were you right after he made that announcement back then?

    This seems more like a ragebait and distraction from the real political headlines and recent news.

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    14 hours ago

    2016, Obama was president: Trump thinks that there were no problems with the elections.

    2018, Trump was president: Trump doubts the legitimacy of the midterm elections

    2020, Trump was president: Trump thinks that the elections were rigged.

    2022, Biden was president: Trump has no complaints about the elections and calls it a “great night”.

    2024, Biden was president: Trump does not doubt the legitimacy of the elections.

    2026, Trump is president: Trump thinks that the midterm elections are going to be rigged.

    I think that I am starting to see a pattern forming.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
      1·
      60 minutes ago

      It is a common issue. The person who is loudly making the accusations is the often responsible for the crime. I have seen this several times at restaurants and in retail. The person pointing fingers is often the culprit.

    • nexguy@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Trump absolutely thinks there were over 3 million illegal votes in 2016 and the reason he didn’t win the popular vote. While president he didn’t demand or even mention having an investigation into what would have been the largest democratic voting fraud case in world history. There should have been thousands of arrests to pull off 3+ million illegal votes.

      Only two outcomes.

      1. He made it up on the spot because he hates to lose anything.
      2. He was right but also extremely incompetent in not calling for an investigation and there were somehow no whistle blowers nor any evidence at all and he almost never talks about it later.
  • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
    234·
    14 hours ago

    Okay, in context this headline and, really, the entire article seem pretty batshit. Trump did not announce a re-election bid. He told a string of awful scripted jokes that concluded with his dumb hat.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump-washington

    The speech included a handful of scripted jokes, one at the expense of Robert F Kennedy Jr, his health secretary who he quipped had personally run over the cow that became the evening’s “very delicious beef tenderloin”. Kennedy has championed the health benefits of beef tallow and animal protein.

    Trump also mocked the weight of Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, and Jerry Nadler, the New York congressman, imagining the two wrestling over a piece of cheesecake. He ridiculed the appearance of his critics, including Bruce Springsteen who he said “looks like hell” and took aim at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who had been honored earlier for her White House coverage, saying she does not smile enough. Trump said he “hated” Adam Schiff, a Democratic California senator, and one of his most prominent congressional critics, while mocking the size of his head and neck.

    At one point, after a joke about term limits fell flat, Trump broke the fourth wall, asking the audience whether anyone understood “this whole freakin stupid speech that they wrote”.

    Trump ended his remarks with a joke that landed awkwardly, declaring that he planned to run and win a fourth election – a reference both to his false claim he won the 2020 election and to his repeated suggestion that he could seek a third term, despite the constitution’s two-term limit.

    • Sunflier@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      46·
      16 hours ago

      It’s always a “joke” until it isn’t. This is textbook gas lighting, and its a documented tactic from him and abusers like him.

      • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
        93·
        16 hours ago

        I think the reason no one’s reporting it is that it just isn’t a story. Trump makes comments like this all the time. There’s a difference between him making them and him actually announcing a re-election bid, which is the claim in the headline and article. Why would he even announce at the White House Correspondents Dinner while he’s bombing on stage? It just makes no sense. This reporting is bad.

          • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
            22·
            15 hours ago

            I don’t disagree with you.

            But that has no bearing on whether this story is true. The claim is that he has “announced a re-election bid.” He hasn’t. And you know this – your recent comments are about him cloaking his intent or desire in feigned humour. I don’t disagree that he’s doing that. But, he does not need to do that if he has actually announced a re-election bid.

    • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
      4·
      16 hours ago

      https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/us/politics/is-this-supposed-to-be-fun-trump-hurls-insults-at-correspondents-dinner.html

      There was little laughter in the room as the president’s speech took on a harder edge. Not many people chuckled when he compared the “really beat-up faces” of UFC fighters with those of Bette Midler, Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen.

      Mr. Trump seemed to realize he was losing the room. After a joke he told about the gerontocracy on Capitol Hill bombed, he said: “That was actually the only thing I thought was good in this whole fricking stupid speech. It was the only good one, and that went down with not exactly great laughter.”

      He threw his arms up in exasperation and people started to laugh again.

      As his speech reached its conclusion, he pulled out a hat and with a theatrical flourish plopped it on his head. It said, “Trump 2028.” Some clapped. Others laughed. Most of the reporters just stared straight ahead.

  • stretch2m@infosec.pub
    2·
    12 hours ago

    Of all the people not to be insulting others for their physical appearance. What an absolute pathetic loser. I can’t wait until I never have to see his disgusting face again.

    • Sunflier@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      14·
      16 hours ago

      Cause he just did it, and its like midnight in the USA. Also, there’s a distinct possibility that SOME news organizations are owned by the same people who support Project 2025 and/or were cheering when he said that.