I'm worried that he's gonna try to run for a third term (because he "thinks" he CAN)...

[CTyankee]

I hope we Dems are thinking about this eventuality. The guy is crazy enough and powerful enough to think he can get away with it. That we won't be able to do anything about it and his base will cheat his way back in again. His base will support him and see to it that he gets his wish.

Is anybody else feeling this way?

[wcmagumba]

1. Yup, t-rump thinks he is the God Emperor of America (and the rest of the world too)...hope he is gone soon...

Stroke out please, just asking...the sooner the better...

[CTyankee]

5. And then we get his VP, possibly worse than Trump is because he's smarter.

Also, he's got the best medical team in the world right now.

[Iggo]

37. Vance will never have the blind fanatical support that Trump has.

[Walleye]

2. I'm hoping they get creamed in the midterms and that will disabuse them of this notion

Hope Springs eternal in what’s left in my human breast

[Maninacan]

3. Of course

I have no doubts.

[Sneederbunk]

4. We'll know for sure after the '26 elections.

As lame duckery sets in.

[MiHale]

6. My take...I don't worry..he'll never make it...

Orrex will get to celebrate his posts with a resounding …YES!

[CTyankee]

8. Um, who is Orrex? I'm havng a senior moment here...sorry...

[MiHale]

10. Orrex is the DUer that posts everyday "Is he dead yet?"

[CTyankee]

13. Oh, yes, of course!

[WestMichRad]

11. Orrex is the initiator of the...

“Is he dead yet?” daily posts that we enjoy so much.

[dalton99a]

7. He is not "renovating" the White House for Democrats

[CTyankee]

9. Good point!

[Boo1]

20. He's not for himself either

These are legacy projects. He's trying to immortalize himself my having his name on things that he think's will be there in 100 years.

But I think there's a better chance that none of them are done when he leaves office and the next President rips them out root and stem.

[CTyankee]

21. I wanna see THAT!

[malaise]

12. He will croak long before 2028

Take that to the bank 😀

[CTyankee]

15. But then we get you-know-who, and he is worse. He is Trump's "insurance" policy.

[malaise]

17. Who knows

One step at a time

Right now I want a croaking😀

[CTyankee]

19. Yeah, just to wipe him out of our lives once and for all!

[yellowdogintexas]

30. It is possible that if he dies before 2028, Eyeliner may be rejected by the RNC

because too many of them will feel that they can't control and manipulate him.
If Trump is out of the picture, there may be a Primary which ought to be a zoo.

Heck I am looking forward to the runoff for Senate here. I have stocked up on popcorn

[themaguffin]

14. it's clear that he can't. there will be fuckery, but it's hard to get around this one

[RT Atlanta]

16. This is one of the few ones where I am actually not 'worried'

n/t

[CTyankee]

18. I'm glad to hear that...

What I want to believe is that our country will have HAD it with the Trumps of the world and will never, ever try another one like him. but I know better. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty (who said that?).

[RT Atlanta]

32. agreed CTYankee

it's that 'had it' with absolute brushing aside rules/norms that is part of why I feel this way.

Related point: a 'truth and reconciliation' type effort (of something that more closely mirrors Germany's looking in the mirror post-WW2) is going to be needed to rid our national leadership with much of this mess and institutionalize sexism, racism, etc.

[hlthe2b]

22. Well, then we can depend on the 1.Grim Reaper, 2.rapid dementia progression to vegetative state,

3. courts actually holding to the Constitution to block him, 4. Civil War breaking out, 5. devastating defeat, or the Iranians (or some other enemy he's driven to their final straw dropping at least a tactical nuke or few on all of us. Those are our options...

[David__77]

23. He would probably be politically smart to announce a campaign.

It would probably neutralize some right wing opposition to him, counterintuitively.

[Fiendish Thingy]

24. I don't waste energy on fairy tales

No matter what Trump says or does, he will not be on the 2028 ballot in any state, and his term will end no later than noon on 1/20/29.

Discussion of a third term is a distraction from the actual challenges facing us in the present moment.

[KT2000]

25. Of course he will

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He will run under the trump party and split the vote among Rs. He will refuse to leave the White House.

[HappyH]

27. Don't worry.

He will be escorted out if he tries to stay beyond his term. I don’t see him making it to 2027 myself, he has been looking pretty bad lately.

[TommieMommy]

26. Yeppers. Scary stuff for sure

[D_Master81]

28. I'm not as worried about it as I used to be

Either we get another Obama term because he would slaughter Trump or I think the country is just tired of him at this point.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. This cannot happen. There's nothing left to destroy. /nt

[Doodley]

31. This country will be in such a mess by then, even if he could, he'd be obliterated.

[lees1975]

33. There's no way for him to get on the ballot.

Can't be done. If it was tried, in some backhand way, any one of several hundred federal judges and appeals courts would strike it down.

I've had kids in my constitution class ask this question, a good one, I point out. Do some research and see what would happen if he tried.

I got several good answers. Most of them discovered that since the 22nd amendment suprecedes state election law, he wouldn''t be able to get on the ballot and his electors could not get ballots. No legislative action could reverse this.

The party would never take the risk of nominating him, losing the issue in court before the election, and having to hand it over to the Democrats by default, or of losing their seats in Congress because whole ballots would be thrown out.

Their conclusion is that it won't ever happen,, because it will never even get to court, it will be stopped by the election commission in each of the states. And several kids said he'll be dead before then anyway.

I like good critical thinking.

[CTyankee]

35. Good reasoning. I hope his followers have done some thinking about their own futures and how much it would cost them in

their folly. The odds are against them. I'll just hang onto that!

[EdmondDantes_]

34. No because he can't.

[RainCaster]

36. SCOTUS will have no choice but to say "HELL NO"

It may come late enough in the cycle that the GOP will not be able to field a viable alternative. But the populace will not vote Republican anyhow because of the wreckage they have caused this country.