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.
Time to really get to know our communities and our people in the military. The only justice imaginable coming from this is a coup in one form or another to oust them. Anyone in the military that is actually on board with this needs to be purged by the rank and file.
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.
Maga operatives? Does he mean Gavin Newsom?
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
Anyone surprised at this is unqualified for political office.
If Presidents can run for a third term, I want to watch Trump get destroyed by Obama, when he also runs for a third term.
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.
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.
A strategically deployed hamberder in the next 1000 days will ensure Trump is president for life.
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.
Nope, that is a declaration of war
Since we can’t rely on the law, it’ll need to be the people’s veto.
He wants to be just like putin. He should be in jail!
Meh…what else is new? Let’s just keep clogging the news with more shit. This is his tactic anyways.
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 and have a stand in prez and vp step down as well?
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.
Why else would the orange be challenging the constitution? His current play of changing birthright citizenship is a practice range so he knows how to aim at his real targets.
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.
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.
To be honest, the most likely scenario in my mind is some form of war declaration or emergency, suspending elections has precedent during wartime.
So ramp up tension with either Canada or Mexico; then manufacture some incident and invade to “protect democracy” or some shit…bada bing bada boom, a nice little war and the ability to declare martial law.
Is there precedence for that in the US? I can’t find an example of US elections being suspended during war time, even the 1964 election happened during a war period.
Let me guess, “Zelensky did it first”?
It’s not even that elections could be stopped it’s that war powers notably direct media manipulation make it much much easier to win an election or rig it.
A very handy use of the expansionalist dreams of GOP, but more likely is that Trump will just use the war on immigrants as an excuse to suspend elections.
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.
There is nothing to work on, unless you think 3/4rds of state legislatures will agree to amend the constitution so that Trump can have a third term. Not gonna happen. The only way they could attempt this would be to violate the constitution.
The more people say it’s impossible, the less.they consider the options that, though wayyy out there, are how they have found ways to do what they’ve already done.
There may not be a single obvious loophole, but a cascade of loops -a Möbius loophole -is how they approach things.
Do not forget his remarks recently about the big mid term surprise and blue states : “they may disappear off the map completely”
Not sure how you feel about that, but even in trump’s verbal diarrhoea, that seems a terrifyingly ominous statement.
The only way they could attempt this would be to violate the constitution.
I don’t think they’re gonna be too worried by that.
