It takes 38 states to do that. It’s not happening.

and that's before full control of all three branches of government.

I sure hope it's not happening. But I've seen plenty of "not happening" of late, that already has.

Is that all?

Also nevermind that not even all of the state he got have R controlled legislature or governors that would need to be on board.


The fatalism on this board is way overblown.

it takes a Marine to talk some of the chicken littles down off their perch. My GOD people, get a GD grip. He isn't staying past '28 and we WILL have mid term elections to neuter his sorry ass in '26. Damn folks, have some courage fer crissakes. It's cringe worthy some of your weakness

Trump will not be around in 2028. Why do you think he refused to let anyone see his medical records?! We have to worry about Vance, he is more evil than Trump because his brain still functions!

I also doubt that we need to worry much about trump running for a third term given his declining physical condition

I’ve been against it, but there would be no way 38 states ratify its repeal.

Trump will get be removed from office somehow, maybe even in the first year. Vance will take his place. Then all hell will really break loose.

and Vance will not survive.

I bet Vance just goes into the general unscathed. Well that's debatable

and a general lack of chaos. When has that ever happened at the end of a Republican presidency.

The economy wasn’t that bad between the end of Ronnie’s second term and the first part of Daddy Bush’s term in office. Of course that was when Club Pachyderm still had some competent people who actually believed in governing. And that was over thirty five years ago.

And before you all pitch a fit, I didn’t say here-and-now, I said thirty five years ago. THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO. Way back when, not today. Half a lifetime ago. Ronald Reagan is dead and gone. George HW Bush is dead and gone.

That style of Republican governing is out of fashion. Dead. Gone. Over. And after watching the current incarnation of the Republican Party, it’s NEVER coming back, and only grifters, liars, and fools say it will and only chumps, suckers, and the corporate news media believe them.

Lifetime. Although out of those 12 years of hell, there was a little bright spot in the election year, 1988.

These vile things ruin economies.

theoretically

The one thing that may keep Trump in office the entire term is that he probably has dirt on plenty of people. That's how he got Jerry Falwell Jr to endorse him in 2016 instead of Ted Cruz. Trump knew about JFJr liking to watch his wife have sex with other men and Michael Cohen helped to get back some "compromising" photos of Falwell's wife.

If he tries to hold onto power by force then we are in absolutely uncharted territory where nothing is off the table including the breakup of the Union.

And he has already “joked” about not wanting to limit himself to 2 terms, so I’m not convinced that he’s not plotting to stick around, if only for power and prestige of the office, if not also the immunity.

Between his cognitive decline and boredom, I think he'll quit at some point and leave JD in charge.

…but not the actual Presidential title.

His ego’s too big, and his newly conferred Presidential immunity’s too enticing.

I think the only way he leaves is in a body bag.

Time is finite with him.

This! The man can't even stay on message looking at the teleprompter. His aides have to tell him what's next, even if it's to just go to the bathroom.

And his mental health is declining rapidly. The office of the president ages a person.

If they don't 25thh amendment him.

I really don’t think he’s got enough upstairs to successfully run in 2028.

staged and orchestrated an insurrection against the United States. He will leave when he is good and ready.

And the U.S. military is not nearly large enough to enforce an (unconstitutional) order to stop it. If he’s alive in 2028, he can only hold office by force and there will be a lot of resistance.

And be “he” we really mean “they”, the puppetmasters behind all this. They’re already looking to reinterpret the 22nd amendment to mean consecutive terms and with this Supreme Court, who’s to stop them?

We’re in much bigger trouble than the considerable amount people already expect.

Ok, so if that became true we'd run Obama in 2028.

Is that if you’ve been elected twice in a row, you can’t run again. If you’ve been elected once and then lose, you can still be elected again and be eligible to go for two in a row.

Out of the actual text:

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.

But that doesn’t mean they won’t try.

have other plans.

leaving Florida yesterday headed to DC. I thought to myself wouldn't it be nice if that plane never made it to DC.

He got what he wanted already. He has complete immunity, will likely either have the fraud charges over turned or make so much money the fine will be chump change. He will be treated as a king by his loyal morons, be praised like Jesus and go off as a genius.

He got what he wanted. Of course, he has to somehow run the nation, but he never gave a crap about that last time around so I doubt he cares now.

Good perspective, but he's coming in with a lot of support.

Republicans Senate will recess in late January and he’ll run all his nominees through it. No hearings, no Q&A from Dems…all legal.

Welcome to the political process in Trumpistan.

He doesn't care about the Constitution. Nor do most Republicans. Our main hope is that he dies in office, his health to begin with was questionable, and it is getting worse. But then we are stuck with what's his name.

That's what I see.