When will enough voters judge Trump America’s first truly anti-American president?
"It would take another constitutional amendment to allow him to run again, and he doesn’t have a Supreme Court pliant enough to wink at some exotic legal theory. Come January 2029, Trump will leave the White House." - Megan McCardle, The Washington Post today
"It is SOOO irritating that the media discusses Trump's "third term" just because he muses about it. He CAN'T run, period. Why doesn't the media focus on his pardoning of all these white-collar criminals because, as he says, they "like Trump?" Or on his mob hit on law firms that opposed him? Or or or... The docile media lets him set the agenda, which is why he was re-elected in the first place.". WaPo comment
Over the weekend Dotard Trump - showing further signs of rapid onset dementia - burped
out again that “methods” exist by which he could attempt to serve a third term in
office.
In a Sunday interview with NBC News, when asked to clarify speculative earlier comments the orange fruitcake made, Dotard yapped:
"I’m not joking. A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker.
Uh, yes he is- joking. Don’t believe his fungal caca for a second. "A lot of people want him to do it"? What people? Those in then densan IQ demographic (below 70), and who never studied American history - well, because their IQs were too low to be accepted into such classes.
Make no mistake this is Trump’s deformed microglial brain cells squealing as they degrade before 0ur eyes. Showing a traitor president unhinged by his mental collapse – claiming he can actually violate an act that is barred by the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. That amendment reads, for those who may have forgot:
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.
The amendment became part of the Constitution in 1951, when it was fully ratified by the states. That means- for those keeping track - any effort to try to circumvent it, by whatever means or 'methods', amounts to an additional violation of Trump's oath of office. This renders him subject to a 3rd impeachment.
Pretty clear, no? After all, Trump has twice been elected to the presidential office, in 2016 and 2024. Granted the 2nd time only after bamboozling millions of morons with his lies - and the help of Elon Musk's millions. E.g.
Sad To Say: Low IQ Among Voters Can Play A Role In Crashing A Democracy.
But given this POS felon already sees himself as a "King" of course he'd object to this amendment passed after World War II as a protection against “elective monarchy.”
What about an 'end around'? Could this orange dirtbag skirt the law by being elected VP, then somehow getting the then president (say Vance) to step aside? Nope. (And NBC's Kristen Welker ought to be ashamed for even hinting at such an end around in a recent Trump interview.)
According to the 12th Amendment, “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President.”
So he can't use the VP route to sneak in through the backdoor.
But amidst all the Sturm and Drang the media and too many MAGA goobers seem to be forgetting two other aspects:
(1) The oblate orange doofus is 78 now, and still eats Mickey D burgers and KFC buckets. Does anyone seriously believe he will still be alive and kicking at 82 for a 3rd run? The actuarial tables from insurance companies don't support that - especially given Dotard's diet.
(2) Even if he manages to defy the actuarial tables like he so far defied political gravity- the chances of anything coherent left of his mind are slim and none. It is more and more evident with every chaotic move he makes and word he says, his brain is running on fumes. In four years, assuming he's still alive, it will be on empty. More than likely he will either have been removed under the 25th amendment or be in a family chosen adult facility.
The key takeaways are twofold:
1- Dotard is using his brain farts about a 3rd term as a means of distraction, to take attention away from his impending "reciprocal tariffs" which will crater this economy.
2- As with his 2024 run, which ought to have been prevented by the traitor being disqualified for insurrection under Section 3 of the 14th amendment, he is using this ruse to try to avoid jail time, resurrected prosecutions.
Trouble is the barriers to achieving his fever dream are formidable and will not be as easy to surmount as his bogus executive orders have so far surmounted applicable laws. (Because of our ponderously slow to respond judicial system). Amending the Constitution to abolish the two-term limit would require either a two-thirds ‘yea’ vote of Congress or two-thirds of the states (34) agreeing to call a constitutional convention to propose the change.
Ain't gonna happen in this version of the universe. A NY Times piece probably put Trump's deformed intentions best:
"President Trump’s comments deflect attention from other controversies. And they freeze potential successors who might steal the spotlight from a lame duck."
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by Elizabeth Preza | March 31, 2025 - 5:36am | permalink
President Donald Trump on Saturday once again floated running for a third term as president, telling NBC News he’s “not joking” when he suggests he might run again despite the Constitution’s 22nd Amendment that says “no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.”
“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker on Sunday. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”
Trump added he’s “focused on the current” administration.
According to a transcript of the conversation, Welker gave Trump a scenario where Vice President JD Vance “would run for office” and “if he won, at the top of the ticket, would then pass the baton to [Trump]."
And:
Trump allies said for years that talk of a third term was a joke. Now it isn’t.
by Thom Hartmann | April 1, 2025 - 4:57am | permalink
If Putin wanted to kill America, how would he best do it? Exactly like this:
— Install a puppet or ally inside the government; as Lincoln foresaw, a tyrant doesn’t need to invade. He just needs to rise from within. Trump has repeatedly echoed Kremlin talking points, undermined NATO, attacked Ukraine, praised autocrats, and created chaos at home. If Putin picked a candidate, it would be Trump — and the intelligence community has confirmed Russian efforts to help him win in both 2016 and 2020.
— Dismantle American institutions from the inside; Putin’s best move would be to encourage the erosion of U.S. government capacity: devalue science, underfund law enforcement, defund agencies, destroy trust in elections, and sabotage public health. All are happening as you read these words.
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