I think there is one completely constitutional way Trump could serve more terms.
It’s not the Vice-President loophole, because that seems to be closed by the 22hd Amendment, which limits who can be elected, and the 12th Amendment, which implies that anybody ineligible to run for President is automatically ineligible to run for Vice-President.
However …
The 22nd Amendment only limits being elected President. One can become President without running for the office (or running for the Vice-Presidency as a President in waiting). In fact, one can become President without running for anything at all, not even Congress.
Here’s how:
If the President and Vice-President can’t continue for some reason, the Speaker of the House becomes President. But the Speaker is not constitutionally required to be a member of the House. Traditionally, the House has elected one of its own as Speaker, but in fact they can elect almost anyone. The Constitution does say there are requirements to serve in the House, and being Speaker would constitute service, so the Speaker would have to be at least 25 years old and a citizen for at least seven years. That’s the only limitation. The House may choose Britney Spears or Mark David Chapman – or Donald Trump.
That means if two loyal Trump lickspittles are elected President and Vice-President, let’s say Don Jr and Eric, with the slogan “a vote for me is a vote for dad,” and if Republicans can hold the House, then the House can choose Trump as Speaker, the kids can resign, and Trump would legally and constitutionally be President again.
If the House turns blue, then Don Jr. is President (cough, wink-wink) but we all know who’s really in charge.
John Mark Karr over Spears and Chapman, if they go with another deranged fuck to follow Trump. This guy decided he’s hopelessly in love with a dead girl, to the extent that he made a false confession to killing her. While in a car with news reporters, he suddenly jumped out of the car when they passed a school and ran off. He later decided to become a woman. Karr is a worthy followup to lead the country as long as we’re going with lying, confused psychopaths. Leatherface is dead, to my understanding, otherwise he’d outrank Karr.
“Britney Spears or Mark David Chapman”
Either would be preferable.
Agreed. Spears worships knives and animal feces, Chapman worships Catcher in the Rye, Trump worships himself. I’ll go with Chapman, since at least unlike the other two, he can read.
Does it really matter at this point? The majority of SCOTUS is going to interject their personal dogma into what they think the end result and rationalize the “legal opinion” backwards from there to make it fit. Thomas and Alito are especially corrupt brain rotten judges that are going to absolutely roll with an end goal and push out the most nonsensical opinions possible to make it fit.
You’ve really got this “originalism” thing figured out.
Look no farther than this ‘autopen’ thing with Biden that apparently the GOP is trying to invalidate any pardons under Biden because supposedly he really didn’t know what was going on due to cognitive decline, and really didn’t sign so they’re going to try to make them all null.
This is the same party under a cult for a guy who can’t speak a coherent sentence and defended him when he said declassification/executive orders happen when he ‘thinks it’.
It’s just the kind of bullshit that happens with all the double standards and the lack of moral fiber and ethics of MAGA/GOP. They’re going to use any nuance possible to find or invent a flaw in their end goal and amplify that to their own means. The law doesn’t matter when the judges are corrupt and can warp it to their own means, and the executive branch wields the sword of the state.
They also have their negative qualities.
Wait, what? Since when does Trump care about the constitution or laws? He’ doesn’t need to carefully mastermind a damn thing, he’s just as likely to say “No thanks” and that be that. Exactly who’s going to forcibly remove him when he’s surrounded by the January 6 crowd?
All of this needless conjecture is a moot point anyway – he barely left office the last time and he only had a fraction of the control he has now. Trump V2 ironed out the bugs of the first administration, and despite all of the very clear warnings and predictions that he’d do this EXACT thing, people still voted him in.
Here’s my prediction, enjoy your ‘rights’ while you can. 2028 is going to be one hell of a year.
I think you are right. The only way to get him out of office now will be with an armed escort. Otherwise, he ain’t leaving.
and that’s IF there is even a fair election, which I doubt. Sadly, every politician on both sides is bending the knee to him, which drives me insane. They are going to go down in history as the people that let democracy fall on their watch.
A bunch of cowards afraid of an insecure bully. Disgusting.
Sooner or later he’ll do something that gets him impeached. They need him on tape, like Nixon’s smoking gun, or some absolute, undeniable proof of high treason and/or obstruction. THEN the sycophants will all turn against him and try to get someone less insane in there, like Kid Rock or Andy Dick or Matt Lauer. He seems indestructible now, but so did Hitler, Pol Pot, Saddam, the whole lot of the evil dictators, who all went down eventually via their own sick hubris. When you start to see the Supremes ruling against him, the writing will be on the wall.
I think he’ll finally go down when he’s giving a golden shower to some young boy and Chris Hansen walks in with, “So what’s your plan for tonight, Donald?” Of course I mean go down as in, be kicked out of office.
It doesn’t matter what he does, as long as 34 members of the U.S. Senate will vote in his favor. If they wouldn’t do it after January 6th, I don’t know what would sway them.
Let’s imagine the craziest thing he could do. Here’s an example. Let’s say he blows up a Canadian warship and makes a speech saying it was necessary because the ship was carrying fentanyl. Would 67 Senators vote to remove him?
My guess is “no.”
Let’s say there’s a leaked memo telling Bondi to find some reason to prosecute Biden, Pelosi and Obama, and Bondi then fires everyone in the DoJ who fails to bring those charges, finally appointing some strip mall lawyer as a prosecutor because he’s willing to do it.
Would 67 Senators vote to convict him?
Again, my guess is “no.”
Suppose it comes out that he was having sex with porn stars on Epstein Island, some of whom may have been underage.
Would 67 Senators vote to convict him?
Again, my guess is “no.”
Suppose he orders the US Treasury to pay him twenty billion dollars for all the indignities he suffered between his terms.
Would 67 Senators vote to convict him?
Again, my guess is “no.”
Suppose he tears down the rest of the White House and moves the executive quarters to Mar-a-Lago while he builds a Presidential Palace where the White House used to be?
Would 67 Senators vote to convict him?
Again, my guess is “no.”
Suppose he dynamites Teddy’s face off Mt. Rushmore and has the construction crew start to add his own.
Would 67 Senators vote to convict him?
Again, my guess is “no.”
I think he has demonstrated that he is basically immune from conviction in the Senate.
He has no intention of trying to serve another term, you TDS infected simp. It is his troll game to get you hypnotized clowns to fly off the deep end. Again.
Stick to tits bro.
Right, right, and no intention to demolish part of the White House. Honestly, how many times is this guy going to kick you in the balls before you wake up? Trump’s legacy only exists with him in control. If the Democrat’s regain any sort of power, this all goes away in an instant.
Whether or not he means it or not doesn’t matter. The fact you have people suffering for no reason and the POTUS has a ‘troll game’ and is playing golf every weekend and worried about $300 mil ballrooms is a fucking joke.
The only hypnotized clowns are you fucking nuts. Wish you fucks would do the world a favor and go out like Heaven’s Gate.
TDS actually applies to morons who can watch and listen to Trump for as few as five minutes and read his posted media garbage and not come to the conclusion that he is a lying, sleazy, ignorant dimwit.
You made that up.
Please provide a link where Trump himself states he is trolling the media about running a third term.
Not talking about you Bill DeeCee. You are actually spot on.
I have no idea whether he wants to, and I don’t expect him to live through this term.
This post is just a theoretical scenario of how it could be done without violating the Constitution
Yes, and as a theoretical exercise, it’s wonderful. Of course, Trump does not care at all about the Constitution. If he runs, he will declare himself the winner, and the Supreme Court will rule that that is, in fact, the case, and that the 22nd Amendment is itself unconstitutional. Heck, they might go full Sovereign Citizen and find the whole Constitution unconstitutional and declare that the President represents the will of the people and has unrestricted power. Congress can just close up shop and go home.
Everything you idiots called TDS has become true. Just one year ago if we were saying Trump would send the National Guard into Democrat cities (because he said so himself) and I bet your ass was saying “he’s just joking you have TDS.”
Liberals are so caught up worrying about what Trump might or might not do three years from now, they can barely focus on all the good he’s doing to help the country right now. Deporting illegals. Cracking down on crime. Blowing up drug boats. DOGE-ing all the wasteful spending. Brokering peace deals. Trying to rebalance trade. Decreasing the size and scope of the bloated Federal government. These are all good things guys. I know your TDS-colored glasses don’t allow you to see it, but this is what we need. Don’t forget guys, he’s still your president for three more years! “There’s never going to be a fair election again!” Gimme a break.
You would probably suck Trump’s dick if he let you. The funny thing is, he wouldn’t. Because he looks down on people like you and you’re too simple to realize it.
No, the reason we cannot focus on the good Trump is doing to help the country now is because we do not possess either scanning electron microscopes or the inclination to believe everything Fox News and other Rupert Murdoch-owned media tells us without question. The good Trump is doing for himself, his family, and his billionaire buddies, on the other hand, can be seen from space.
BTW, you are the one deranged about Trump if you believe he has any concern about doing what is best for the USA.
Cracking down on crime by deploying national guard to garden, interrupting their lives and costing money. Deporting mostly peaceful people over administrative crimes and blowing up the national deficit in the process for this initiative. Fake peace deals between parties who aren’t involved in active combat, outside of Israel-Palestine.
The guy has speedrun the fastest $1 trillion in debt in history. All while cutting taxes for the rich and cutting jobs. Tell me what exactly he should get praise for, besides being an idiot and you being an even bigger idiot because you can’t think for yourself?
Trump ain’t doing a third term. He’s just yanking the left’s chain. Keeps the media in a frenzy, which is good for him because anyone with a working brain figured out the media is a complete joke a while ago.
To be fair, they sure do seem to LIKE having their chains yanked…
There’s no way to say whether he is interested or just trolling.
My post just hypothesizes that there is a way to do it without breaking any laws or violating the Constitution. The same scenario would apply to Clinton, Bush or Obama, all of whom are younger than Trump
Of course there’s a way. You don’t tear down the east wing for a “ballroom” (aka massively expanded underground bunker) that’ll be done a couple months before you leave if you plan on leaving.
I think he just wants grand memorials in his honor: the Trump Arch (aka Arc de Trumpf), the Trump Ballroom. That’s the equivalent of placing his own face on Mt. Rushmore.
The fact that people like David, Trutherbob and Maga2028 insist that Trump will not seek a third term is all the proof any sensible person needs to know that he is definitely going to.
PS – I forgot to put Angelo T in that list. Sorry. Discredit where discredit is due, after all.
You see this kind of cherry-picking thinking all over the place:
Trump says he is cracking down on illegals, Fan base likes it, therefore: Believe it.
Trump says he did this or that. Fan base likes it, therefore: Believe it.
Trump says he wants to run for a third term. His fan base doesn’t like it, therefore he is “trolling the press” or “only joking”.
As the most powerful man in the world, Trump’s words need to be taken at face value. One cannot assume he is trolling or joking when it doesn’t fit with your own beliefs.
It’s always a joke with him. Until it isn’t.
Then you lot still fall in line with whatever he tells you.
He’s always just joking until he’s not, we’ve seen this play out before.
Vance has to be out of the picture. If he gets in for a minute, he goes full barnacle.
Agreed. Vance has always followed the path of power when given the choice between doing the right thing or power.
If you want a revolution, that’s how you get a revolution.
when Trump is not president in 2028 I hope all the people who keep smearing this lie run to the tv or their little keyboards and say I WAS WRONG but I already know you gutless cowards will not
I think you mean 2029. That waste of skin will still be prez when Diddy gets out. If he leaves voluntarily I will admit I was wrong. You didn’t see Clinton or Harris whining about elections being stolen/rigged/a hoax. It’s you lot who live in a fantasy world where you pick the outcome you want, then dictate what the facts are to support it. That’s how J6 happened.
You must’ve missed the part where Hillary Clinton spent years calling Trump an “illegitimate” President.
Well true enough in the sense that, like Sonny Bush, he lost the popular vote. What she didn’t say: that she should be president instead based on the election results.
you must have also missed the part where Harris was bemoaning how strraight white men didn’t vote for her
???
What point are you making here? I don’t remember her saying that, but it’s certainly true. And why would she expect anything else? Even Obama, for all of his charisma, lost the 2008 white male vote in a 57-41 landslide, then lost the same group 62-35 in 2012. Harris actually fell in between those two at 60-38. American white males have not shown an inclination to vote for non-white candidates.
(I haven’t seen those numbers broken down by gay/straight.)
Again, a *complaint*. Not Al Pacino screaming “I’m out of order? You’re out of order! This whole *system’s* out of order!!!”
I tell you what. I will if you will. If he survives until then and tries to run, or if he follows scoopys plan, will you come back and admit you were wrong? I absolutely will if he willingly leaves.
He’s LITERALLY selling Trump 2028 merchandise.
But, Maya Buttreeks, that is an undeniable physical fact. You know MAGA regards those as meaningless. See RFK Jr. for examples. And Trump himself goes without speaking in that respect.
Trump’s current term runs until January 19, 2029 you fucking retard
We won’t need to say we were wrong. Trump will still be President in 2028, assuming he is still alive. He will even be President for a portion of 2029.
After that – who knows?
What’s more imminent is the effort to dominate the coming mid term election. The effort is steaming ahead to control who can vote and how, even how and who counts the ballots, the gerrymandering of the House districts, and the propaganda that the election is rigged if they lose. See the talk of revoking citizenship of Mamdini, and citizens caught up in the ICE raids. Watch out when Antifa is labelled a domestic terrorist organization because that’s opening the floodgates to a true despotic state
Have you seen Trump lately? He doesn’t look healthy. I don’t think there’s any way he even finishes his current term, let alone has a third one.
True. And as I always say: “Look around you. Do you see any 80-year-old fat guys?”
Winston Churchill? I mean, he’s not around now, but he made to [google] 90.
People said that all throughout his first time. I would not rely on that.
That’s right. Just like Putin being on his death bed for the last 5 years, evil seems to hang on. And I remember some people here, after Trump was convicted of a felony and facing other investigations, predicting he’d soon be behind bars. It was as if they hadn’t been paying attention to how the judicial systems works in this country. And now it’s even worse.
Yeah, but don’t forget, only the good die young. And with all of the evil shit he’s doing, he must have at least another 20 years in him by now.
My question is, why would Trump want to seek a third term? Dude should be spending the last decade or so of his life on a yacht somewhere. If I was a billionaire, I know I would.
Why did he run for President in the first place? To enrich himself, and to be the center of lots of attention. When he won, he was stunned, but he soon found that he loved the power, too. And this term he has been exercising it without restraint. Of course he wants a third term, and if all that stands in the way is the law, even if the law is in the form of the Constitution, he will do it.
All that will change, though, if his stupid and childish economic policies crash the economy and put the Democrats in power in Congress. Then being president will not be fun, and would be too much work and frustration. There are probably other things that would have the same effect. Basically, if he burns the house down, he will decide he doesn’t want to live there any more.
He’s also doing it to keep his ass out of prison.
Democrats in power? I think you’re presupposing that fair and free elections are guaranteed. How do you stop someone from rigging votes in favor of Republicans when the FBI and Department of Justice are controlled by the President – who is themselves a Republican and stands to directly benefit from said interference?
How do you stop a President from pardoning someone convicted of election fraud, especially when that President themselves has complete immunity from prosecution?
Seriously, I’d love to know. Because this all seems laughably lawless…
You have a point, but it’s more concerning what they’re doing with representative maps and gerrymandering more votes so the house doesn’t flip. If rural bumfuck nowherestown is going to be dictating the direction of the country and pissed someone is getting a ‘handout’ then they should be giving theirs back off what federal and state taxpayer money gives to their country and municipality to keep them afloat.
You must not remember this time last year when Republicans were asking a lot of these same questions. With all the illegals coming in and receiving IDs, all the questions around the 2020 and 2022 election voting irregularities, left-wing media bias and social media control, lawfare trying to keep Trump from running again, and with the perceived crookedness of the lifelong politicians pulling the strings for the Dems, there was little reason to believe we’d ever have fair elections again. Then, someone tried to shoot Trump, Sleepy Joe got replaced un-democratically by a dud candidate, and suddenly people realized voting R was the only way to save democracy!
You know, Trump never mentions being shot? That is very strange for him. And the applicable earlobe shows no damage at all, no scarring or malformation. I’d bet he was not hit by the bullet, but grazed by shrapnel of some kind.
Oh, BTW, all that stuff you talk about the Dems doing? A) No significant voter fraud has ever been shown in any of Trump’s three elections. The insignificant stuff has usually been Republicans trying to cast fake votes for Trump. B) The Republicans are just plain planning to END free and fair elections. They will be declared the winner of any election they care about, period. That’s much worse, in case you were wondering.
Oh, and “undemocratically replacing” Biden? Wow, you are really desperate for ANYTHING the throw, aren’t you?
Man Roger, you’ve completely lost the plot. “Trump wasn’t shot. He was probably just grazed by shrapnel from someone shooting at him. That’s different!” And, “everything you believe is a conspiracy theory, but also, Republicans are just going to END all elections!” Talk about desperately looking for anything to throw out there.
He didn’t say Trump wasn’t shot. That is a matter of fact. He just speculated that Trump wasn’t probably hit by the bullet itself.
Frankly, I don’t know whether that is likely or even possible, and I don’t see why there is any reason to distinguish between being hit directly by a bullet, or by a ricochet, or by shrapnel, or whatever. That seems like a “So what?” issue to me.
I don’t think Republicans plan to end elections. If they were, I don’t think they’d being going to such crazy extremes to gerrymander. I think they will just follow their current strategy of accepting the results when they win and denying them when they lose. There was even some crazy woman in Tennessee who claimed she won an election that she lost 80-20. That seems to be the current playbook.
Jaysus, Maga. OK, more or less in order: illegals came in; they did not vote, “all the questions around the 2020 and 2022 election voting irregularities” were the Fuckstain and his trumpettes being unable to take the L without moaning, “media bias and social media control” is what you call the whole world not putting its thumb on the scale for you, “lawfare” is what Rs used to be all for – people taking responsibility for the consequences of their actions, the rest of your 10:49 post is sub-AI slop-level drivel.
Then. In July ’24 *someone* told TPUSA that they’d never have to vote again if he was elected. Now, wasn’t that your Lord and Savior? I think it was, Reuters thinks it was. While it’s tempting to just toss this into the ‘shit Trump says’ drawer, only taking this shit seriously is going to get us out of the hole we’re in.
Left-wing media bias where? All the top streamers are right wing, including the ex-FOX guys like Tucker Carlson. Radio shows have been right wing with Rush Limbaugh for decades. FOX News gets the most ratings, and there’s several nuts offshoots of it with NewsMAX and OANN. CNN has been sanewashing Trump for years and it’s lead anchor wrote a book about how compromised Biden was and ignores the flat out crazy shit Trump does and says. Paramount/CBS is now run by Larry Ellison’s son who’s deployed his own ‘truth czar’ to run the thing through the Trump propaganda train.
Explain to me exactly what media is left-wing in your little persecution complex bubble? The conservative rich own EVERYTHING. Trump has given them huge corporate and individual tax breaks and pardoned dozens of white collar criminals and cut the IRS and FTC to let them make more.
I truly don’t understand how fucked up in the head people like you have to get to know you’re being manipulated. Like, do you think if you take it up the ass enough from Trump or Musk they’re going to give you a job or something? You’re the type of brainrotten cult being told by GOP Big Brother what to believe that was written about in ‘1984.’