Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration.
“You know, FDR 16 years – almost 16 years – he was four terms. I don’t know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?” The ex-president and GOP presidential frontrunner said to the organization’s annual convention in Dallas, prompting some in the crowd to yell “three!” Politico reported.
Trump has floated a third term in past comments, even mentioning a prolonged presidency while campaigning in 2020. He has also tried distancing himself from this idea, telling Time magazine in April: “I wouldn’t be in favor of it at all. I intend to serve four years and do a great job.”
What it sounds like to me, and apparently only me, is that he is saying here he is currently running for his third term since he “won” in 2020. Of course he has made comments before about how he likes how Putin and Xi keep getting to stay in power and wished he could do that, but it would help his cause if he could win the popular vote just once over his lame opponents.
Imagine if Democrats actually nominated someone worth voting for rather than just us voting against Trump. But I guess that’s too much to ask for.
He has also said his first term shouldn’t count because he was impeached. Never give him the benefit of the doubt.
I mean the allusion to FDR seems pretty clearly connected to the idea of further future terms. Trump always phrases these things in a way so he has plausible deniability. But the subtext is obvious if you pay attention.
That’s how I understood it too. I’ll be first to believe he wants to change that law but this article is trash
Hmmmm sound more to me like he doesn’t know the current max number of terms
So let’s see here, Trump is 77 years old, but will be 78 at the time of election. Let’s just add eight years and we get 86… yep he’s angling for president for life.
Yep, and his brain will be mush, so who knows who’d really be running the show.
It already is mush.
Will be? It already is.
Maybe he has worms. 🪱
Nah, rfk was able to sustain it for a little bit. In Trump’s brain it would file refugee status and emmigrate.
Not before he has it deported.
But Biden is too old already. SMH. Maybe he’ll get sucked out of a faulty window in his plane.
Who, Trump?
He’s angling for hereditary dictatorship.
“If the Biden regime gets four more years, they are coming for your guns,” Trump railed.
Really pulling out the “greatest hits” with this piece here. He’s got nothing else.
“regime”
He really used that word? Wow…
I said the same thing. Heavy eye roll.
Doesn’t he know that that word only applies to foreign nations.
Swing and a miss, champ.
Sorry, I should have said foreign, non-white nations.
Still arguing with yourself?
If you’re just going to make pithy insults, you should at least have them make sense.
This is partly just blowback from everyone agreeing to use different vocabulary for governments we like vs governments we don’t. We never should have tolerated the blatant propaganda of the US having an “administration” while our adversaries have “regimes”.
There are lots of other examples of journalists using loaded vocabulary this way. Most of them escape me at the moment but I can think of a few, like “freedom fighters” vs “insurgents” or “terrorists”, and “police action” or “peacekeeping force” vs “occupation” or “invasion”.
That’s a GOP golden oldie. I’ve heard that same bs line since the early 90s at least.
And it’s a great line for the gun lobby. In a lot of ways, the NRA and gun manufacturers would prefer a Biden victory because gun sales spike when Democratic presidents get elected, as gun-nuts are certain every time it happens that this is the time, for real, that they’re “coming for our guns.” In other words, people panic buy rifles because they think a federal ban is coming. But the reality is that Dems will never push through sweeping anti-gun legislation because there are so many pro-2FA democrats out there that doing so would be ludicrously difficult and monumentally unpopular.
‘Member when Trump said he’d take guns without due process? Like he literally said that.
Are peoples memories that short? He posted this 2 months before he “tried” distancing himself from the idea.
noted fascist is a fascist, more at 5
Guys I’m starting to think that this Trump fellow might not like democracy
Bold of him to assume he will live that long considering he seems to live on diet coke, adderall, and McDonalds while also being obese, elderly, and sedentary as hell.
Dude is going to die of a hamberder overdose well before then I’d bet.
3, then 4, then 5… Just like putin.
“Let me tell you, folks, it’s so true. Just like Putin, right? It’s unbelievable. We start with 3, then we go to 4, and then 5. It’s all about strength, and nobody knows strength like me. We’re talking about a progression, a strategy. Just like Putin does, so smart. You have to move step by step, building power. That’s how you win, that’s how you get things done. Trust me, it works.”
Trump in one of his rallies (probably)
Without that “(probably)” I would have assumed this WAS at a rally…
Too coherent not enough of a drug induced ramble
Yeah you’re probably right. I should have probably diverted from the original topic halfway through. 😅
And then his children will run for office, and only because he’s too old now.
His kids lack a great deal of his rizz. DT Jr is too weak, Eric is dumb as dishwater, and Ivanka has the girl cooties that sink every woman Republican candidate for the Presidency.
So Eric it is, then. Just like his dad.
Hey now, things aren’t that bad. No way Trump lives long enough for that.
Of course this was going to happen, it was only a matter of time.
Someone asked if Republicans will ever run a candidate other than Trump while he is alive. He has such a strong grip on the party that even if he keeps losing he may remain the R candidate, in 2028 and beyond.
I give him another 3 or 4 years, dude is in terrible shape.
At this point it’s The Heritage Foundation who would win and run the presidency, Trump is just a bobble head conman running scams on his supporters
They love suckin his chode
Ok hear me out…
Trump wants to be a dictator, sure. He was a terrible president and it would be a disaster if he was reelected.
Now that you know my position, listen to what he said at the NRA convention. He wasn’t saying ‘hey maybe I’ll serve 3 terms’… what he was saying was ‘if I get elected in 2024 then would that be two terms or three terms? Because we all know I was elected to a second term back in 2020 and so even though Biden is acting president, I am in my second term now, so a win in 2024 is a third term.’
The man is an idiot and rambled incoherently throughout the NRA speech. He reiterated his usual batch of racist xenophobic statements and bragged about his uncle at MIT… he is a one trick pony and there is plenty to poke fun at.
Would he tout the idea of a third term for himself? Sure! Is that what he did in this case, not precisely.
Exactly. Of course, by putting forth the belief that 2020-2024 was his second term, he should just bow out since he has also said he would not want to challenge the 22nd amendment.
Oh you’re right. I guess I forgot one could be that stupid
I understand his confusion here… the phrase is “consecutive sentences.”
And all that without even getting slammed or flattened. I guess he got away with it this time.
I support a life-term prisondency for him.
PLEASE! SOMEONE SHOOT UP A BUNCH OF 6 YEAR OLDS SO I CAN PRETEND I CARE ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION AGAIN! PLEASE!
-Pro Life Republicans.
What a doozie of a way to start a sentence…
