Summary
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon revealed that MAGA operatives are “working on” securing Donald Trump a third presidential term in 2028, despite constitutional term limits.
In an interview with Chris Cuomo, Bannon said, “We’ll see what the definition of term limit is,” suggesting they’re exploring ways to circumvent the 22nd Amendment.
Recently released from prison after serving four months for contempt of Congress, Bannon placed second in a CPAC straw poll for 2028 GOP nominees behind JD Vance, while maintaining tensions with Trump adviser Elon Musk.
Bannon placed second in a CPAC strawpoll
My first thought: That’d be great, there’s no way he’d win
My second thought: Democrats would find a way.
My first thought: That’d be great, there’s no way he’d win
Remember, the overwhelming majority of the country thought the exact same thing about Trump in 2016.
as parent intimated: Democrats will find a way. :-(
I’ll show me!
Who do I think I am, anyway?
Democrats, the masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
i mean let’s give Putin some credit too, his disinformation campaigns and bot farms have been a master class in manipulating public perception. that’s to say nothing of the Twitter/X situation
Don’t forget Meta and other social media allowing (even encouraging in Twitter’s case) rampant misinformation to go unchecked, dismantling the very systems they built to combat it during Trump’s first term.
That, and their “1984 was a blueprint”-level invasive user tracking that allowed micro-targeting voters with propaganda to discourage Democratic turnout while inflaming Republican emotions. Russia might have written the articles, but Zuckerberg made sure they reached American eyes.
Read: They still don’t have a replacement for Trump.
Of course they do, but the issue is that too much of Trump’s control over their base is from his cult of personality (somehow), not the plan itself. They don’t know how to replace that. Yet.
Musk is hoping to be next. Yes, constitution doesn’t allow it, but they don’t intend to follow it anyway.
The constitution also doesn’t allow an insurrectionist to be president, but here we are.
That’s why they’re so interested in making Canada part of the US. His mom is Canadian. If Canada becomes part of the US he becomes a natural born US citizen and becomes eligible to run for president. And this is one of many reasons we cannot allow ourselves to become part of the US.
They’re putting a LOT of faith in those arteries holding up that long LMFAO
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We should go fund me a lifetime supply of hamburgers and fries.
Amphetamines.
During the last election he went on a big ramble about how Biden is probably on amphetamines for stamina. Sounded like he was telling on himself.
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You don’t think they’re covering that contingency?
They rules they have formulated and want to pass as law are that the first two terms must not be consecutive. This would preclude Obama from having a third term.
I remember reading they want to adjust it to “two consecutive terms”. Which would invalidate Obama through their mental gymnastics
I think that’s the rule Putin and Medvedev used. They alternated to get around the consecutive term rule.
That’s what I said above. First two terms can’t be consecutive. Ridiculous.
I don’t think they mean presidents (plural) could run for the third term.
There will also be a rule if one of the contestants is going for their third term it’s an automatic win & no opposing runners can join the game.
Just like Biden used the SCOTUS immunity ruling to legally assassinate trump?
Democrats will not ever break precedent.
Likely scenario:
They’ll first try to get two thirds of both the senate and the congress, and to a constitution overhaul in the style of Hungary. If that fails, there’s always the option for a martial-law, or just circumventing the whole of the constitution.
Maybe make him speaker of the house then have a stand in prez and vp step down?
I know a vp has to have presidential eligibility to be elected, which Trump wouldn’t have at the end of this term. But Im not aware of the same restriction on the speaker
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
That’s the wording. It looks pretty iron clad, if you care at all about the rule of law.
The problem is that word “elected.” It doesn’t specifically exclude someone assuming the role of president through the line of succession.
No, but the “acted as” should technically cover it. Again it’s meaningless if laws no longer apply lol.
That’s it. It’s just a pretty idea with no bearing on reality if not enforced.
The sad reality
That wording wouldn’t prevent Trump from becoming Speaker of the House, and then becoming President for a third term through the line of succession.
Shit, yeah re reading it it’s fucked. Unless there is something that the scotus ruled on as president that is not worded directly.
I don’t think it overly matters anyways, though; it’s not like Republicans would go “Oh darn, foiled” if Trump couldn’t be Speaker. Traitors gonna treason and coup, one way or another, and it’s going to be boots-on-the-ground organizing that stops them, if anything stops them.
100% correct, very unfortunately
Nope, that is a declaration of war
Since we can’t rely on the law, it’ll need to be the people’s veto.
We’ll see what the definition of term limit is
It’s right there in the amendment:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Donald Trump was elected twice. He is ineligible to be elected again.
Yeah. The constitution also says anyone who starts a fucking insurrection is also ineligible and yet here we are.
Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to agree that since the 22nd Amendment doesn’t specify who enforces that the president can’t be elected, that it means Congress has to actively pass a law saying he can’t run.
That’s what ultimately happened with the Colorado case.
If I had to put money on it, I’d guess they contest the legitimacy of the next election, and he just refuses to step down - can only be elected twice, but he’s just there as a care taker until a proper election can happen
Actually, reading the language again, I can absolutely see some shenanigans where he runs as VP for someone else who runs on a platform of “vote for me and I’ll immediately resign and put Trump in charge again”. It’d need the supreme court to decide if that “and” is exclusive or not, and given that half the court seems pretty happy to give up their principles of it suits their politics, I wouldn’t be surprised if that worked
This seems like the most straightforward scenario. Nothing prevents trump running, or being elected, as Vice President, on the understanding that the duely elected President will step down on day 1. When they wrote the constitution, they didn’t bank on a populist fascist, so the language assumes everyone plays fair.
Whether trump is in any state to do anything by then is a different question. If they find someone more useful they may simply shuffle him out of the game by declaring him mentally incompetant.
The absolute best case scenario is that they’re just saying this because they know it outrages non-magas, and they love doing that. I’ve not seen much to support that as the probable outcome though.
Time to 2A up to protect yourselves America. Only a copper jacketed hollow point between freedom and tyranny.
FYI I know nothing about ammo other than what I hear in movies or TV.
Hey yo, while we’re cutting jobs I heard the secret service costs the government billions and isn’t even secret, we best tell Musk on X and use a thinky emoji to show how smart that observation is.
Trump will be 79 in 2 months, at 83 he himself wont be around to run in 2028, but MAGA would still be there and that’s what we should be fighting. I mean sadly and similarly Bernie Sanders wouldnt be around to run in 2028, but his movement is what we should be carrying
A strategically deployed hamberder in the next 1000 days will ensure Trump is president for life.
Third term?
Again with the Russian model - why not be more imaginative and declare yourself some new made-up dictator name (& just be a dictator, no terms, no red & blue, only polished golden ass), like something Borat would come up with.His supreme big handedness of the Lord, the shitter of golden diarrhea, he who licks no domestic butts, the holy eternal MAGAer, the trumpest with the mostest absolute dumptruck ass, senior car salesmen.
Musk is already occupying that position.
Anyone surprised at this is unqualified for political office.
Fascist pricks are doing something fascistic, what?!
