Summary
Steve Bannon has suggested Donald Trump could run for president again in 2028, arguing the 22nd Amendment’s two-term limit might not apply since Trump’s terms weren’t consecutive.
Speaking at the New York Young Republican Club, Bannon dismissed legal barriers, echoing claims that Trump’s 2020 loss was illegitimate.
The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, explicitly prohibits anyone from being elected president more than twice, making such a scenario highly improbable without a constitutional amendment.
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney predicted Trump’s Vice President-elect JD Vance will likely be the GOP’s 2028 nominee.
We should bring back pillories.
Run for what ? I thought that he was supposed to get rid of elections.
Bold of them to think we‘ll still have elections then.
we’ll have an election in 2028. the question is how fair those elections will be
The silver lining is that Trump is extremely likely to keel over from heart failure before then
Unfortunately his replacement is Vance.
I call that the brown lining.
I wouldn’t let Vance near any kind of lining. He’s done unspeakable things to fabrics
I call it the sofa lining
Not soon enough
One man, one vote. Trump’ll be the one.
Yup, breathing machines can keep old vegetables fresh longer. What was the question?!
So sick of these scum already and donvict’s term hasn’t even started. Bannon can go fuck himself.
Ah the old Putin -Medvedev trick.
So like how would this play out if he tries? Do the courts say no and tell the states to not put his name on the ballot? Do the states take it into their hands and not put his name off the ballot? What if enough states do put his name on the ballot to win, does the supreme court just say no if he wins?
Considering that Trump is not eligible to be president because he led an insurrection and the Supreme Court overruled states which tried to uphold that law, I think we can make a guess.
everyone’s just assuming that voting will be a thing at any point in the future
we’ll go to war and he’ll just declare a perpetual “emergency” and suspend whatever he needs to in order to crown himself supreme leader for life. at least it’ll be entertaining to watch all his sycophant cultists tear each other’s throats out trying to be named his successor when he finally fucking croaks
He’ll just say he won, and everyone says “ok” just like they did last month.
@cogman@lemmy.world posted up above, “Trump’s eligibility was challenged and the supreme court’s response was ‘Parties can pick whoever they like to be president, we’ll figure out if they are qualified later’. That means the republican party is free to nominate and run Trump for president in 2028. The supreme court would only get involved if he wins the election, in which case…”
Emphasis mine. So what that means is, he’ll be allowed to run, and then his illegitimate Supreme Court will just flip and say “It’s too late now!”
Same approach they used to deny Garland his seat back when Obama appointed him, just with different obstructionists. Their MO is ‘Rules for Thee, but not for Me’
Twenty-Second Amendment Section 1
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 this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
Haha! You obviously didn’t see that someone snuck into the National Archives and scrawled “in a row” in Sharpie after “more than twice”. How do we know that was not just a late amendment?
So what you’re saying is - it’s pretty fucking clear. Steve Bannon is, as per usual, completely full of shit.
Of course he is. I mean, there’s not going to be en election in 2028 at all.
Since the amendment specifically uses the word ‘elected’, and Trump claims he won the election in 2020, that means he was ineligible to run for president this year and therefore the election results are invalid.
This will be the line. And MAGA Republicans will fall in line.
Count on it.
Honestly I don’t think he could maintain his health for that much longer.
Mind is already gone, body will follow. Then JD Vance.
I don’t think JD Vance could win an election.
Oh, Mitt. There isn’t going to be a 2028 election, you beautiful, dumb Moron… Mormon.
And if that fails, since there are no Wookies on Endor
It’s an obvious to meant to make us waste time not fighting the near term fights. Bannon is an idiot, we should ignore this and focus on getting ready to resist and insist starting Jan 20th at noon.
People confuse “can” as in “no one can physically stop it” with “not legally able to”.
trump clearly isn’t playing by the rules, so we need to be on the right page for what “can” they use.
He legally can’t run in 2028, but laws haven’t stopped him before.
He legally can’t run in 2028, but laws haven’t stopped him before.
I expect him to try again, and I expect Democrats to glumly be like “okay, I guess, but just because you’re a Republican and we can never say no to you.”
Can’t run for president, but can become VP as someone else’s running mate before they conveniently resign on day 1 and enable 4 more years of Trump.
I’d be more worried about this scenario if Trump was a healthy 60 year old man but he’s certainly not that. I’ll be surprised if he makes it through this term coherent enough to maintain power.
They’d just roll out a deep fake and cover it up.
Bro is on that ozempic and Sudafed high, he might actually make it way further than we hope, unfortunately.
Sure, no one can say how long it is but he’s near the end of his rope whether he likes it or not
Maybe we’re just one term away from the Emperor upon his Golden Throne
Implying that he is coherent now.
Spite and hatred seem to fuel a lot of old people for many years.
Ahh yes, the Medvedev route.
The VP has to be a valid presidential candidate precisely for this loophole.
The bigger problem is that this last election Trump’s eligibility was challenged and the supreme court’s response was “Parties can pick whoever they like to be president, we’ll figure out if they are qualified later”. That means the republican party is free to nominate and run Trump for president in 2028. The supreme court would only get involved if he wins the election, in which case… yeah… we’ve already ran an election which is a huge cluster fuck.
He also can’t legally be president because he led an insurrection, but that’s not stopping him.
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
Meh who cares. This country is beyond fucked. It was fucked 50 years ago. You’re all just slowly watching the wheels fall off the bus even tho the driver is already dead.
The fact that it’s decaying doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care.
