Donald Trump quips he can't run in 2028 unless Republicans 'do something'
Donald Trump has made similar comments about serving more than two terms, going back at least to 2019.
This guy really thinks he's never gonna die. I'll be surprised if he survives this upcoming term, and not even from a Minecraft related cause, just poor health.
What is a "Minecraft related cause?"
When you're talking about actionable threats, I.E. real world violence, but want to appear only hypothetical, the meme is, "I'd kill X in Minecraft.".
Death by Ender Dragon.
A lot of dumb people thought they could talk about killing politicians on the Internet if they ended their message with "in Minecraft" so they could claim they were just taking about a game. At least one of them has already been arrested proving their plan doesn't actually provide any defense.
So a Minecraft cause would be someone plotting (and then presumably actually) killing them.
I'm sorry, a 'Minecraft related cause'?
You a fed or something?
He got the wrong ideas from all these god emporer memes back in the day.
Moneo! Bring another attorney general!
He'll spend 50% of his time golfing, the other 50% fucking up the country
“He jokes all the time,” said Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., who was in the room at the time. “I think it's one of the problems with politics is you can't even tell a joke without being excoriated.”
Definitely, that's the problem in politics. Ffs.
"excoriated"
That's certainly a $10 word for a Republican.
I think you should be able to DISTINGUISH it's a joke. Also, as anyone who does politics will tell you, ANYTHING that comes out of your mouth into any form of microphone can and should be expected to be used against you, and should be expected to be believed.
"Joking" in politics should've died with Reagan's press sec laughing about gay men dying of AIDS.
Any time he says anything that gets significant negative pushback, it is dismissed as a joke.
Same thing with the rest of them. It's always a joke unless you agree with them.
GOSH I was just JOKING, fucking WOKE CANCEL CULTURE won't even let me make a JOKE anymore, people are so SENSITIVE these days...
REEEE WHY IS THERE A BROWN PERSON IN MY GAME shitshitshit tell me there's a whitewashing mod for this, I'm having a panic attack... sees a playable female protagonist mod, instantly dies
Let's hope the next 4 years are tough on the felon, he may not even make it to 2028 🤞🏼
I'm not convinced Vance or Johnson is any better than the orange baffoon .
Yep. When a dictator dies, it doesn't necessarily lead to democracy and prosperity because the system is broken, and the next person simply assumes the absolute power.
Yeah but they probably wouldn't even get a second term lol
Beware what you wish for.
The 22nd amendment to the US Constitution bars Trump as a viable candidate for the Office of the President. It would require an additional amendment to be possible and there's no way that 3/4ths of all US states will agree to that shit.
The only potential loophole that I can discern is that there's no clear consensus on if Trump would be allowed to run as Vice-President on someone else's ticket. If he can, then, theoretically, he could run for VP and then have the elected President immediately resign, making him the President again.
...there's no way that 3/4ths of all US states will agree to that shit.
We've had an extraordinary number of "there's no way that..." moments in the past decade most of which have been connected to Trump, why tempt fate like that? The 2024 election map has more than the 38 red states needed to ratify a constitutional amendment.
So right at the end of the 12th amendment there's this line.
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
So as of his presidential win this election he's ineligible to be vice president.
The 22a says he can't be elected. But that doesn't make him ineligible to serve. The wording presents a loophole that our highly partisan Supreme Court could drive a truck through.
Or he's gonna wipe his ass with the Constitution in an X live stream and declare Jan 6 "National Patriots Day" while Fox commentators claim he's joking.
The 22nd amendment to the US Constitution bars Trump as a viable candidate for the Office of the President. It would require an additional amendment to be possible and there’s no way that 3/4ths of all US states will agree to that shit.
I no longer believe the process and laws of our government will apply to this administration. We'll see.
If they do it, it will be by suspending the constitution entirely. Don't need any states for that.
The Putin Ploy
The 14th amendment didn't stop him from running again, I fail to see what the 22nd amendment would do.
He absolutely could do that. The amendment specifically says elected to the office of the President, it does not prohibit attaining the office by any other means.
Would Trump even hold a candle to motherfucking Obama? 3rd candancy isn't just for Trump...
He is 78.
So overturn or amend? Like I’m kinda surprised he’s even taking the constitution into consideration. Like he’s weird, he doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge that once he’s done all he says he wants to do the United States of America will no longer exist. Caesar could not cross the rubicon and rule the republic, he could only control Rome. Nor could Napoleon take full control of the French Republic. Republics are finicky things like that, a dictator can only ever hold their land, not the thing itself.
I don't think his brain works like that.
I mean, we might as well just go all in. It seems like most everyone is running headlong into apocalypse anyway.
I just don't have the capacity for this. Ugh.
If you ask Trump, this IS his third term, so no, he's not joking.
Well, with having control of literally every aspect of the government they actually could change this country for the worse. However, it's theoretically possible that some of them grow a spine.
Fuck it, nothing matters anymore; they’ll do “something” and we’ll vote him in again
Who cares whether he’ll be 82 by then, age clearly wasn’t the issue this time
It's going to be hard to campaign from a New York state jail cell for the next 4 years. The DOJ may have rules about a sitting president but he was neither when he committed the crimes he has already been convicted of in NY state court.
He will never go to jail, he will never suffer any consequences of his past and future actions. Unfortunately it is what it is.
In the veiled depths of cosmic night, beyond the grasp of mortal understanding, there lurks an abomination known as D'ohl-Nald'trump, Evader of Consequence, Weaver of Lies. Ancient as the first whispers of deceit, this blasphemous entity shambles through the mortal realm in garish splendor, clad in illusions spun of its own warped grandeur. Its voice, a booming incantation laced with half-truths and hollow promises, spills forth with the power to sway the minds of even the stout-hearted, plunging them into delirium where reason itself dissolves. Those who fall under its thrall are left in a fog of bewildered amnesia, helpless to recall its transgressions, let alone question its motives.
For D'ohl-Nald'trump wields a dreadful gift—an eldritch glamour that cloaks it in perpetual exoneration, a power so unnatural that no mortal cage may hold it, no law may bind it. Even those who glimpse its deceit find themselves ensnared in its web of forgetfulness, powerless to hold its ever-shifting form to account. And so, the Weaver of Lies drifts through aeons untouched, a nightmare that evades justice itself, as if consequence were but a faint myth of a distant, naïve cosmos.
