Posted on 12/16/2024 1:44:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump has yet to start his second term, but at a raucous black-tie gala in downtown Manhattan, a former aide floated the idea of a possible — and unconstitutional — third presidential run.
“Are you ready for Trump ’28?” asked Stephen K. Bannon, influential podcast host, Trump’s former chief strategist and the featured speaker at the 112th New York Young Republican Club dinner Sunday evening.
The 1,000-person audience roared in approval.
Bannon then suggested that he had consulted another Trump ally, Mike Davis, who had suggested a loophole in the Constitution would allow Trump to run for a third term.
But did he suggest to Bannon that Trump could run a third time? “Of course not!” Davis later told a reporter. “That’s crazy.”
Why crazy? The 22nd Amendment states that “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.”
But some on the right have suggested, without any legal basis, that the amendment refers to two consecutive terms, which would allow for Trump to run for a third time at age 82.
Trump didn’t attend the dinner in his hometown, but he didn’t have to. Each speaker extolled him. Guests wore handbags and scarves embroidered with his name. Some women wore Trump hair clips to secure elaborate updos. A few men donned red MAGA hats. He recorded two video addresses that played over huge screens in the room.
British politician and Brexit advocate Nigel Farage greeted Bannon and other Trump aides as Trump’s media allies Jack Posobiec and Alex Bruesewitz circulated in the cavernous...
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The WP is back to its old tricks of lies.
No one wants Trump to have a third term.
Ya mean like Obama did? Well, if its good enough for him its good enough for me.
Actually, 2025 IS his third term since he was voted into office as POTUS in 2016, *2020 and 2024.
*usurpation occurred.
“No one wants Trump to have a third term”
Speak for yourself ;-)
Congress limited the presidential term. The founders had nothing to do with it
What makes Congress lifetime terms more precious than the presidents? Congress, that’s who
Journalists have no clue about history nor the constitution or religion for that matter
They’re like doctors telling us what to eat. They’re no authority.
Exactly.
It’s funny they’re pushing for abolition of the Electoral College. They never point out that’d be unconstitutional.
I keep expecting Democrats to sue on the basis that Trump won in 2020 and that therefore he is now ineligible to be President.
WAPO urinating in public
They’re so blind they can’t see the irony.
Exactly!!!!
Let him resign before two years then run again!
President Donald Trump 48 in 2028
Liberals be like....😂😆🤪😜🤣🤣🤣
👍👍👍
Donald Trump JR.
I’m cool with just naming Trump First Consul in 2029, and Octavian Barron Trump succeeding him thereafter.
Do they mean the “FDR Amendment”? Pushing boundaries is only okay if Democrats do it.
These liberals really get off on political fear porn.
Umm. No third terms for ANYONE.
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