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Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration.
“You know, FDR 16 years – almost 16 years – he was four terms. I don’t know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?” The ex-president and GOP presidential frontrunner said to the organization’s annual convention in Dallas, prompting some in the crowd to yell “three!” Politico reported.
Trump has floated a third term in past comments, even mentioning a prolonged presidency while campaigning in 2020. He has also tried distancing himself from this idea, telling Time magazine in April: “I wouldn’t be in favor of it at all. I intend to serve four years and do a great job.”
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Bold of him to assume he will live that long considering he seems to live on diet coke, adderall, and McDonalds while also being obese, elderly, and sedentary as hell.
Dude is going to die of a hamberder overdose well before then I’d bet.
i mean, statistically there have been at least one president with more than two terms before.
This was also before there was a law that prevented it from happening.
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tru tru.
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t still currently a law.
The last amendment took over 202 years to get ratified. I’m not sure another amendment can really get passed anytime in the distant future.
ok well this one was actually a shitpost, it was passed by a college kid who got a bad grade on a paper about that amendment specifically.
it just happened to be written up 200 years ago, without a deadline, and then as a result, it passed recently when it received renewed interest. Most amendments and bills, and shit like this have a dead line, to prevent this kind of shit from happening lol.
You’d have a point if it was the last one proposed.
The real issue is that Republicans control too much of the Senate and too many state legislatures to allow any sane amendment to pass.
Not the first time he’s done this.
That is just another article about the exact same incident…
My mistake. Meant to post this link.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/politics/donald-trump-third-term-2024/index.html
Ah, yes, much better. And also more unambiguously directly a call for a third real term, whereas this time it’s plausible he could be claiming that 2020-2024 was his ‘second term’ already.
Republicans hate the constitution, so… this checks out.
Hmmmm sound more to me like he doesn’t know the current max number of terms
What’s newsworthy about this? Trump flirting with dictatorship isn’t news, he already said multiple times he wants to be one.
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This so much. People need to recondition that entertainment is not news, and news should not be entertainment. News should be description of noteworthy (even if boring) factual events. A presumptive presidential candidate talking about violating the constitution of the United States, that is noteworthy; maybe not unexpected in this case, but noteworthy.
We need to be less entertained by news and more informed by news. Tell me what presidential candidates are saying in the most mundane terms possible. Anything beyond the barest oblique (as opposed to direct) fact or factual description should be eschewed.
People need to recondition that entertainment is not news, and news should not be entertainment.
John Oliver:
Oh I agree with you.
It’s just that at this point it’s like “wolf trying to eat three little piggies”, no shit, really? Yes you’re right, this is news but I’m so sick of having to hear the obvious. Give me the news where he died of coronary heart disease, which he will soon enough, or a drug overdose, which i also see very likely.
Until then it will be more me stamping my bingo card, because of course he does <insert something horrible here>, than reading actual news
I agree with you, but this is blatant misrepresentation of what actually happened, and that should worry you. I’m not saying this to defend Trump, I’m saying this to point out the misrepresentation of events by the news media.
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To be honest I think Clinton or Obama would have been president for life if two term limits weren’t imposed.
Obama was lucky to win his second term. His approval rating was already underwater and only Romney’s own unlikeability saved him.
Either way, this was a man who had functionally checked out back in 2014. He didn’t want a third term.
The Obama campaign did seem to flounder early on in the 2012 election against Romney, it just wasn’t able to reproduce the magic of 2008. I recall Obama performing badly against Romney in the first two debates, just did not seem at his best. It wasn’t actually until the VP debates after Joe Biden’s performance against Paul Ryan that the Obama campaign got reinvigorated.
That’s some easily disprovable bullshit: Obama’s final presidential approval rating in 2017 was 59%, which is pretty good. So much for “checked out in 2014”. Trump and Bush w had 34%, Clinton had the highest ever with 66%.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/final-presidential-job-approval-ratings
Obama’s final presidential approval rating in 2017 was 59%
Obama’s approval rating in 2012 was 46%. He recovered in 2016 as we came out of a mini-recession.
So much for “checked out in 2014”.
He spent less time campaigning for Hillary Clinton than Biden or Sanders and gave up fighting for his judicial nominees back in January. He’s been on permanent vacation ever since.
And Trump is even more unlikable than Romney. No one has really been running terribly likeable candidates lately.
And Trump is even more unlikable than Romney
Not according to the last two election vote-counts. That’s been a problem for the GOP for a while. Anyone they throw up against Trump is too much of a corporate stuffed shirt or hick blowhard to top Trump’s NYC Diva Energy. He’s got a cult of personality in a way guys like DeSantis and Cruz and Romney could only dream of.
It cuts both ways, though. Sure, it gets his fans out in record numbers, but it also gets people who hate him voting in record numbers, too. I don’t think we’d have had that 2020 turnout for Joe Biden without Trump.
Sure, it gets his fans out in record numbers, but it also gets people who hate him voting in record numbers, too.
When Bidencrats are concentrated in a few large states and Trumpies are diffused across a larger number of pivotal swing states, the electoral math favors the Republicans. And as Biden’s own approval ratings crumble, people who would normally turn out to hate-vote against Trump are demoralized.
I don’t think we’d have had that 2020 turnout for Joe Biden without Trump.
Trump won more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016. And Biden only clinched the nomination by 40,000 votes across three swing states (all three of which he’s currently trailing Trump in today). He was running a tighter margin than Hillary enjoyed in 2016.
Combine this with Republicans ramping up disenfranchisement efforts, fascist policing of minority communities, a chronically struggling economy, and a President whose declining health inhibits his ability to campaign, and I seriously doubt Biden will see 2020 turnout a second time. Meanwhile, Trump is once again poised to break GOP turnout records.
Yeah, he barely lost to Joe Biden. Biden vs Obama popularity isn’t even a contest.
Obama was marginally more popular than Biden back in 2016, when Biden was significantly more popular than Hillary.
But in 2024, Idk. Neither of them have aged well.
FDR is why there’s an amendment prohibiting it. He’s speaking openly of violating the constitution. Hey “patriots”, isn’t that supposed to be a thing that makes you mad?
Don’t know about for life, but a pretty long tenure like Angela Merkle, yeah I could see that
I’m too young to chime in on Clinton, but I can see it with Obama for sure.
The fucker is somehow going to actually do it isn’t he? I swear…
Through voter apathy and the bullshit lines about how Biden is too old.
Biden is doing a good enough job ruining his own campaign. He is alienating his last base group, the young voters.
Just stop listening to him already…
Least Nixon had the bottle to leave
What it sounds like to me, and apparently only me, is that he is saying here he is currently running for his third term since he “won” in 2020. Of course he has made comments before about how he likes how Putin and Xi keep getting to stay in power and wished he could do that, but it would help his cause if he could win the popular vote just once over his lame opponents.
Imagine if Democrats actually nominated someone worth voting for rather than just us voting against Trump. But I guess that’s too much to ask for.
I mean the allusion to FDR seems pretty clearly connected to the idea of further future terms. Trump always phrases these things in a way so he has plausible deniability. But the subtext is obvious if you pay attention.
That’s how I understood it too. I’ll be first to believe he wants to change that law but this article is trash
He has also said his first term shouldn’t count because he was impeached. Never give him the benefit of the doubt.
Someone asked if Republicans will ever run a candidate other than Trump while he is alive. He has such a strong grip on the party that even if he keeps losing he may remain the R candidate, in 2028 and beyond.
At this point it’s The Heritage Foundation who would win and run the presidency, Trump is just a bobble head conman running scams on his supporters
I give him another 3 or 4 years, dude is in terrible shape.
They love suckin his chode
noted fascist is a fascist, more at 5
Guys I’m starting to think that this Trump fellow might not like democracy
You know, FDR 16 years – almost 16 years – he was four terms. I don’t know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?
Sounds like he’s just questioning whether the current Biden term is actually considered a Trump term. Just the usual election denial from him and the NRA crowd.
