The 80-year-old was met with a smattering of applause, but even he did not seem excited by the moment.

Donald Trump has announced he will run for president in 2028 during a rambling speech to the Washington press corps.

Trump was speaking at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner when he appeared to make the announcement.

I won three times, now I’m gonna do it again,” he said, while putting on a cap that read “Trump 2028″.

“I’m gonna do it again. It should be easy.”

He went on to add that he won in 2020 but the election was rigged.

The 80-year-old was met with a smattering of applause, but even he did not seem excited by the moment.

Over the dead body of every patriot that stands for the Constitution, which reads in pertinent part:

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

-22nd Amendment

*Edit: Here’s the video of his announcement:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xyzWui2OX2I&t=2s&pp=2AECkAIB

He seem like he’s just joking to you?

  • DisasterTransport@startrek.website
    511·
    2 days ago

    You can bullshit around the insurrection label, but the term limit is pretty cut and dry. Not going to stop them, but the ramp is how we got here.

    • Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org
      17·
      2 days ago

      Is it though? I’ve already seen arguments like “It only means two CONSECUTIVE terms” and other such bs arguments.

      The thing is, if no one enforces a law then you have no law. You can write a rule on a piece of paper, but if you don’t follow it what does it actually mean?

      • neoman4426@fedia.io
        6·
        1 day ago

        Even without the consecutive terms bit that’s obvious nonsense there is a legitimate legal question that could potentially be used and legal. It’s not a new theory floated for Pedonald, it’s been an unsettled question since the passage of the 22nd Amendment. 22nd Amendment’s relevant bit is

        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.

        By the most narrow, strict reading of the text it only prevents election, if they can find a way to become President without being elected such, there’s a reasonable read that 22 doesn’t trigger. 12th Amendment contains the text

        But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

        Does ineligibility to be elected trigger the ineligible to the office clause? Could he run as VP with a loyal puppet who immediately steps down? Main legal opinion is “probably not”, but there’s enough wiggle room there that I wouldn’t trust the current corrupt Supreme Court not to side with him.

        • Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org
          2·
          20 hours ago

          Exactly. Two big things at play with all this.

          A. Legal loopholes and bizarre interpretations of wording. We see it every day, lawyers and politicians and the elites find the craziest ways to dodge the laws that bind your or I.

          B. He ALREADY violates COUNTLESS laws and the constitution and the amendments and none of those are being enforced. He violated the 14th by inciting and enabling an insurrection, no consequences. He has committed treason with foreign powers, no consequences. He stole government documents and had them at his damn resort, no consequences. He committed election interference and fraud, no consequences. He diddled little children, no consequences. He’s committed non-stop grifts and scams and frauds with his status of PUBLIC OFFICE as president for personal gain at the expense of the country, no consequences. And no one even wants to read this far, but the list keeps going. Not a single REAL consequence yet, he’s captured all 3 branches of the government and has loyalists everywhere that are stopping any real actions against him, just like a classic mob crime boss.

          So if laws can be dodged or interpreted differently and if the laws we do have simple aren’t being enforced then there literally is nothing preventing him from continuing on, and he can make up whatever scenario he wants to pacify his brain-dead-followers into believing it’s the “right thing to do”.

          Hell, he could just say “the libs are trying to come get ya! I need to stay president to stop em!” And 77mil people would fall in line. Ugh.