When Donald Trump took the oath of office once again, it was the last time he’d be able to do so under the country’s constitution. But that hasn’t stopped his team from flirting with the idea of running again, writes Alex Hannaford – and the Democrats are nowhere to be seen...
  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    When Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon said “I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028,” last week, it should have been a surprise, but wasn’t. “We’re working on it. … We’ll see what the definition of term limit is,”the dishevelled Bannon told NewsNation. It wasn’t the first time he had mentioned it either. The president’s adviser, who went to prison for refusing to testify before a congressional committee about the 6 January insurrection, suggested it in December. Then, he argued that Trump could circumvent the 22nd amendment, which codifies the two-term limit, because the word “consecutive” is not in the text of the document.

    Trump has been making his feelings clear too. Shortly after his election victory last November, the president told congressional Republicans: “I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say, ‘He’s so good we’ve got to figure something else out’.”

    Then, in January, during the annual House Republican retreat in Florida, he joked with speaker Mike Johnson: “Am I allowed to run again, Mike?” In February, he asked supporters at the White House: “Should I run again? You tell me.” Offhand musings about a third term in office sound less like bluster and more like a blueprint.

    If we’re sharing articles can we make the effort to add a couple relevant paragraphs under the headline? Otherwise the discussion ends up being about the headline and often innaccurate.

    • tyrant@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Ill try to do that but… People should also read the article before before impulse commenting.

      • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        As someone who’se shared hundreds of articles on reddit then lemmy.

        Good luck getting more than 1% to read the article. People want headlines, scrollable information bits that they can instinctively react on.

        That’s why paragraphs under are useful. Makes people atleast read those before commenting a gut reaction to an oversimplified headline.

    • derfunkatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

      You’d think that the absence of the word “consecutive” and the phrase “no… more than twice” would mean quite clearly that it’s two terms period, not one, plus two consecutive terms.

      Unless, of course, these fuckheads are arguing that consecutive terms count as one.

      Fuck.