Again, you continue to think the Constitution is going to hold. He's already doing unconstitutional things and getting away with it. See DoE. The Constitution means nothing to The Heritage Foundation.
So what action other than a court challenge do you suggest? It'd be blocked in the courts because it's pretty clear cut.
They will if Trump takes over the election process which is what they are attempting to do.
Why does the MAGA Idiot Brigade hate the Constitution? So far, they have either tried to or publicly mused about the possibility of undermining and/or defying the first, fourteenth, and twenty-second amendments. Which one is next?
50/50
I don't deny he wants that. I don't think he has the ability to do that.
Got it. It's Biden's fault. You simply had no choice. Then that WOC with the silly laugh was the candidate. What could you do?
Republicans might lose it before then given the normal churn of people dying or being arrested. Although it is doubtful that Pam Bondi presses charges against any GOP House member caught accepting bribes.
If you can’t admit that chain of events opened the door for Trump, either you’re being dishonest or you’re delusional.
There is no event that excuses voting for Trump. He's a convicted felon, twice impeached, guilty of civil fraud, his company was convicted of financial crimes, he sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll and was adjudicated to pay her money, he's an autocrat and boasts of it, he reads and writes at a 4th grade level, he draws on maps with sharpies to make himself look right about hurricanes...
You forgot the word salads — the word salads were simply not something that BoTh SiDeS bInS could look past, so he had to go with Trump (again).
Link attached but there were 13 districts that voted for Trump and a Democrat in Congress vs three districts which voted for Harris and a Republican member of Congress.
We can hope that by then maybe Orange will be so unpopular nobody would want anything to do with his endorsement…
That's true but if the GOP didn't nominate him, that door would've been open as a third party candidate.
We saw one of those "methods" on January 6th 2021.President Donald Trump on Sunday declined to rule out seeking a third presidential term — an unconstitutional act explicitly barred under the 22nd Amendment — saying that “there are methods which you could do it.”
In a phone interview with NBC News’s Kristen Welker, Trump suggested that multiple plans have begun to circulate for him to run for a third term. He pointed to unspecified polling as an indicator of his popularity and claimed he had the “highest poll numbers of any Republican for the last 100 years.”
“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said. “But we have — my thinking is, we have a long way to go. I’m focused on the current.”
Asked whether any third-term plans have been presented to him, Trump said: “There are methods which you could do it, as you know.” Welker then mentioned a hypothetical plan where Vice President JD Vance would run in 2028 and “pass the baton.”
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“Well, that’s one. But there are others, too,” Trump responded.
“I’m not joking,” Trump said. “But, I’m not — it is far too early to think about it.”
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Pressed again by Welker on the toll of the presidency and if he would want to serve a third term, Trump, who would be 82 years old in 2028, said, “Well, I like working.”
White House communications director Steven Cheung reiterated that it was “far too early” to consider the possibility and emphasized the support Trump garnered in the election.
Trump, as a candidate and as a second-term president, frequently teased running for a third term and mused with supporters whether he should run again. The concept has gained traction with some of his most ardent allies — despite the Constitution’s 22nd Amendment, which flatly and explicitly limits presidents to being elected to two terms.
The 22nd Amendment was led by Republicans and passed in 1951 in response to the four-term presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. An amendment can be proposed with two-thirds of votes in the House and Senate or by two-thirds of state legislatures proposing a constitutional convention. Three-quarters of state legislatures or conventions in three-fourths of the states must ratify the amendment to change the Constitution.
Some allies have taken such comments seriously, including podcast host and former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon. In December, Bannon suggested that Trump should run again, asking a crowd at a New York dinner, “Are you ready for Trump ’28?” and raising the idea that a constitutional loophole could allow Trump to run for a third term.
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Less than a week into Trump’s second term, Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tennessee) also proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would allow Trump to serve a third term to “sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”
Note the source. One could actually believe it to be true though, and that's the truly sad part.Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means of the relatively obscure “no one will stop me” loophole. “My critics say a constitutional...theonion.com
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Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
Published:
October 30, 2018
WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means of the relatively obscure “no one will stop me” loophole. “My critics say a constitutional amendment or at least an act of Congress is necessary to end birthright citizenship, but what they don’t realize is that a seldom-evoked administrative guideline ensures I can do whatever I want, whenever I want, because zero people will stand in my way,” said Trump, adding that the largely unheard-of clause allows him to circumvent normal legal proceedings because it’s not like anyone in any branch of government remains effective enough to prevent him from doing so. “Though few modern presidents have made use of it, this loophole has always given the nation’s chief executive unilateral power over the Constitution. Its provisions dictate that the president can sidestep any checks and balances on his power once he has abused his authority so many times that no one can keep track anymore.” Trump added that while his opponents may try to challenge his executive order in court, the loophole also states that by then he will have achieved his immediate political aims.
It's wild how many Onion articles over the last decade that would have normally been far fetched and absurd, are now incredibly close to real life events/situations.
Could don junior win though? I can't imagine even Vance becoming president and willingly giving it to Trump.
"The Onion is fake news." — Trump, probably
I remember when he tweeted about a Babylon bee article as if it were actual news
I'm old enough to remember when an Onion article was easy to spot as satire.Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means of the relatively obscure “no one will stop me” loophole. “My critics say a constitutional...theonion.com
Politics
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
Published:
October 30, 2018
WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means of the relatively obscure “no one will stop me” loophole. “My critics say a constitutional amendment or at least an act of Congress is necessary to end birthright citizenship, but what they don’t realize is that a seldom-evoked administrative guideline ensures I can do whatever I want, whenever I want, because zero people will stand in my way,” said Trump, adding that the largely unheard-of clause allows him to circumvent normal legal proceedings because it’s not like anyone in any branch of government remains effective enough to prevent him from doing so. “Though few modern presidents have made use of it, this loophole has always given the nation’s chief executive unilateral power over the Constitution. Its provisions dictate that the president can sidestep any checks and balances on his power once he has abused his authority so many times that no one can keep track anymore.” Trump added that while his opponents may try to challenge his executive order in court, the loophole also states that by then he will have achieved his immediate political aims.
Don't forget that the fourth is being broken right alongside the first!
Can you imagine what would have happened in the GOP and Fox News and that entire right-wing ecosystem if throughout his second term Obama was constantly musing about running for a third term and claiming "there is a way" for him to remain in office?
And, I believe, 3/4 of the states to ratify. Would NEVER happen.
