President Trump has repeatedly made comments that indicated he’s open to the idea of a third term, and the discourse began to get serious among Republicans in Congress, after Rep. Andy Ogles introduced a resolution to amend the Constitution in a way that would allow Trump a third term. A group called the Third Term Project brought attention to a plan for Trump to run as vice president in 2028 during the Conservative Political Action Conference in February.
Steve Bannon told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo he was a “firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028.”
Asked by Cuomo about the apparent constitutional bar, Bannon said, “We’re working on it. I think we’ll have a couple of alternatives, let’s say that.”
Bannon offered few details beyond suggesting that “we’ll see what the definition of ‘term limit’ is.”
However, in a weekend interview with NBC’s decidedly anti-Trump reporter Kristen Welker, President Trump threw cold water on the idea of running for a third term.
When asked about running for a third term President Trump said, “I don’t know if that’s constitutional.” “I’ll be an eight-year president,” he said. “I’ll be a two-term president. I always thought that was very important.” His current term, he added, was more than adequate to accomplish something “really spectacular.”
All true but think of the lost opportunities to own the libs with “Trump 2028” hats and t-shirts, plus Democrats were beginning to take the bait.
In a podcast interview with The New York Times, reported by Torrence Banks for Lefty website NOTUS, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said that she is “worried” about the threat of Trump serving a third term and is concerned about how Republicans could look to “undermine future elections.”
“When I speak to Democratic voters, there is an enormous amount of anger towards the Democratic Party that allowed this to happen,” Healey told The New York Times. “They look at this and they say it was the failure of the Democratic Party that opened the door to Donald Trump coming in. And I just wonder, as a sitting governor and a Democrat, how (do) you respond to that?”
The Hill reported Rep. Jasmine Crockett, the whacky new face of the Democratic Party, wrote on social media, “So, that’s actually not allowed…The Constitution isn’t optional, sir. This isn’t a reality show – it’s reality. Two terms, that’s it.”
Obnoxious New York Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman also released a statement insisting that “Trump was never joking about trying to serve an unconstitutional third term.”
He added, “This is yet another escalation in his clear effort to take over the government and dismantle our democracy.”
Goldman said in a statement reported by CNN that he now sees Trump’s multiple “constitutionally suspect actions,” leading up to an effort to stay in office.
“Republicans are waging an all-out attack on the Judiciary to clear the way for Trump to serve a third term,” he said.
“Dismantling our democracy” is what Democrats say about pretty much anything Trump does, so that charge has pretty much lost its sting.
So, what made the President give away one of his best tools to drive Democrats and their liberal allies at the networks and law schools crazy?
Probably it was the polls – a survey, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates with fieldwork by Ipsos, found that 80 percent oppose Trump serving a third term, although Republicans were somewhat receptive, only 38 percent of Republicans think he’s serious about a third term, compared with 88% of Democrats.
Skeptics of a Trump third term among his 2024 coalition include white men without four-year college degrees (74% of whom oppose another Trump term), white evangelical Protestants (70%), conservatives (67%) and Republicans (60%).
Still, we wish President Trump had kept the troll going for a few more months. The deliciousness of seeing self-important law professors, clueless Democrat elected officials, and Leftwing pundits turn themselves apoplectic at the idea of a Trump third was too enjoyable to give up so soon.
- 2024 Election
- Trump 3rd term
- JD Vance
- Marco Rubio
- Steve Bannon
- 2028 Republican nominee
- Trump as vice president
- Trump Kristin Welker
- Two term president
- Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey
- Rep. Dan Goldman
- Rep. Jasmine Crockett
- Trump polls
