Summary
Steve Bannon has suggested Donald Trump could run for president again in 2028, arguing the 22nd Amendment’s two-term limit might not apply since Trump’s terms weren’t consecutive.
Speaking at the New York Young Republican Club, Bannon dismissed legal barriers, echoing claims that Trump’s 2020 loss was illegitimate.
The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, explicitly prohibits anyone from being elected president more than twice, making such a scenario highly improbable without a constitutional amendment.
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney predicted Trump’s Vice President-elect JD Vance will likely be the GOP’s 2028 nominee.
People confuse “can” as in “no one can physically stop it” with “not legally able to”.
trump clearly isn’t playing by the rules, so we need to be on the right page for what “can” they use.
He legally can’t run in 2028, but laws haven’t stopped him before.
Can’t run for president, but can become VP as someone else’s running mate before they conveniently resign on day 1 and enable 4 more years of Trump.
The VP has to be a valid presidential candidate precisely for this loophole.
The bigger problem is that this last election Trump’s eligibility was challenged and the supreme court’s response was “Parties can pick whoever they like to be president, we’ll figure out if they are qualified later”. That means the republican party is free to nominate and run Trump for president in 2028. The supreme court would only get involved if he wins the election, in which case… yeah… we’ve already ran an election which is a huge cluster fuck.
I’d be more worried about this scenario if Trump was a healthy 60 year old man but he’s certainly not that. I’ll be surprised if he makes it through this term coherent enough to maintain power.
Implying that he is coherent now.
Spite and hatred seem to fuel a lot of old people for many years.
They’d just roll out a deep fake and cover it up.
Ahh yes, the Medvedev route.
He legally can’t run in 2028, but laws haven’t stopped him before.
I expect him to try again, and I expect Democrats to glumly be like “okay, I guess, but just because you’re a Republican and we can never say no to you.”
His brain will be complete mush by then. It’s already a tossed salad.
Bold of them to think we‘ll still have elections then.
we’ll have an election in 2028. the question is how fair those elections will be
One man, one vote. Trump’ll be the one.
So like how would this play out if he tries? Do the courts say no and tell the states to not put his name on the ballot? Do the states take it into their hands and not put his name off the ballot? What if enough states do put his name on the ballot to win, does the supreme court just say no if he wins?
He’ll just say he won, and everyone says “ok” just like they did last month.
This will be the line. And MAGA Republicans will fall in line.
Count on it.
Honestly I don’t think he could maintain his health for that much longer.
Mind is already gone, body will follow. Then JD Vance.
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
Run for what ? I thought that he was supposed to get rid of elections.
So sick of these scum already and donvict’s term hasn’t even started. Bannon can go fuck himself.
Oh, Mitt. There isn’t going to be a 2028 election, you beautiful, dumb Moron… Mormon.
Yup, breathing machines can keep old vegetables fresh longer. What was the question?!
Meh who cares. This country is beyond fucked. It was fucked 50 years ago. You’re all just slowly watching the wheels fall off the bus even tho the driver is already dead.
He could try. Some 2a people could potentially do something about that,I don’t know!
