Summary

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon revealed that MAGA operatives are “working on” securing Donald Trump a third presidential term in 2028, despite constitutional term limits.

In an interview with Chris Cuomo, Bannon said, “We’ll see what the definition of term limit is,” suggesting they’re exploring ways to circumvent the 22nd Amendment.

Recently released from prison after serving four months for contempt of Congress, Bannon placed second in a CPAC straw poll for 2028 GOP nominees behind JD Vance, while maintaining tensions with Trump adviser Elon Musk.

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    Bannon placed second in a CPAC strawpoll

    My first thought: That’d be great, there’s no way he’d win

    My second thought: Democrats would find a way.

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      My first thought: That’d be great, there’s no way he’d win

      Remember, the overwhelming majority of the country thought the exact same thing about Trump in 2016.

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      Of course they do, but the issue is that too much of Trump’s control over their base is from his cult of personality (somehow), not the plan itself. They don’t know how to replace that. Yet.

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    Likely scenario:

    They’ll first try to get two thirds of both the senate and the congress, and to a constitution overhaul in the style of Hungary. If that fails, there’s always the option for a martial-law, or just circumventing the whole of the constitution.

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      Maybe make him speaker of the house then have a stand in prez and vp step down?

      I know a vp has to have presidential eligibility to be elected, which Trump wouldn’t have at the end of this term. But Im not aware of the same restriction on the speaker

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        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.

        That’s the wording. It looks pretty iron clad, if you care at all about the rule of law.

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          The problem is that word “elected.” It doesn’t specifically exclude someone assuming the role of president through the line of succession.

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          Why else would the orange be challenging the constitution? His current play of changing birthright citizenship is a practice range so he knows how to aim at his real targets.

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    Hey yo, while we’re cutting jobs I heard the secret service costs the government billions and isn’t even secret, we best tell Musk on X and use a thinky emoji to show how smart that observation is.

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    Time to 2A up to protect yourselves America. Only a copper jacketed hollow point between freedom and tyranny.

    FYI I know nothing about ammo other than what I hear in movies or TV.

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    Trump will be 79 in 2 months, at 83 he himself wont be around to run in 2028, but MAGA would still be there and that’s what we should be fighting. I mean sadly and similarly Bernie Sanders wouldnt be around to run in 2028, but his movement is what we should be carrying

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    We’ll see what the definition of term limit is

    It’s right there in the amendment:

    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.

    Donald Trump was elected twice. He is ineligible to be elected again.

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      Yeah. The constitution also says anyone who starts a fucking insurrection is also ineligible and yet here we are.

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      If I had to put money on it, I’d guess they contest the legitimacy of the next election, and he just refuses to step down - can only be elected twice, but he’s just there as a care taker until a proper election can happen

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      Actually, reading the language again, I can absolutely see some shenanigans where he runs as VP for someone else who runs on a platform of “vote for me and I’ll immediately resign and put Trump in charge again”. It’d need the supreme court to decide if that “and” is exclusive or not, and given that half the court seems pretty happy to give up their principles of it suits their politics, I wouldn’t be surprised if that worked

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    Meh…what else is new? Let’s just keep clogging the news with more shit. This is his tactic anyways.