Cool. How about those Epstein files?
Blue states shouldn’t allow him on ballots if such a thing were to happen.
They should, eya. Just like they should have kept him off in 2024, since he was already ineligible as an insurrectionist.
but only a handful of states actually tried. funny how that worked.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice
Those are the exact words of the 22nd amendment. It’s explicit. There’s no ambiguity or room for other interpretations. Trump was elected twice, he’s hit his limit, that’s it.
I think the keyword here is “elected.”
That’s why ne said he’s going to run. He thinks he’s smart.
Im sure he could make a convincing argument that he isnt a person and therefore should be allowed to sit for a third term.
Yes, and none of that prohibits him from running for office again. The only prohibition is that he cannot be elected a third time. But here’s the thing: we don’t actually vote for President; we vote for who our Electors elect as President, and they are Constitutionally prohibited from electing Trump to a third term. If Trump runs and “wins”, the Electors cannot elect him. He can win 0 Electoral votes. Doesn’t matter what their States’ laws require because the Constitution is the highest law in the land… until SCOTUS rules the 22nd Amendment violates the 10th Amendment. 🤷🏻♂️
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice
This is why is fun to own a whole ass supreme court:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice
Words are fun for this guy
Therefore, by his own logic, he shouldn’t be in office right now, because he won in 2020, riiiight?
Unless somebody stops him, he’ll do it. All the people that are supposed to check or balance his power are his minions.
There is wiggle room in some amendments but this one seems pretty fucking clear.
It does specify that he has to be a person. Perhaps they’re going to argue he isn’t?
In a wild turn of events, he’s gonna change his name to Deborah and run as our first trans President, claiming the transition resulted in him being a different person.
But then Elon Musk will crack the sads, and have a big sook, with multiple posts on Twitter.
It doesn’t matter what it says when neither courts nor law enforcement will enforce it. Looks like we’re running out of democracy boxes.
There’s still one more box after November’s election.
Well, he can run again. It’s just moot, as he can’t be elected. If he were to get the most electoral votes, I gu3ss the runner up is elected?
yes, but is anyone gonna stop him?
There’s wiggle room, he’s claiming a right to campaign. To run… He’s not saying anything about being elected.
He doesn’t actually do the electing. That’s up to public, and the officials who are in charge of elections (who he’ll try to stack with loyalists). He can’t say what they’ll do.
He runs, and if others elect him… Well… That’s the wiggle room.
That’s not wiggle room, it’s violating the Constitution. Not saying it can’t happen, but it’s not like that’s a logic loophole, it’s just not caring about acting illegally.
So it sounds like there’s no prohibition against running, just against winning? Sounds like an easy win for the Dems.
It seems pointless to run in an election you are constitutionally barred from winning. But, Trump has proven time and time again he will do pointless things. If he tried running again and somehow he won, however, the constitution is clear: it’s a no go. He can’t get elected for a third time. That said, I don’t think that’s necessarily the point. I think the point is to create chaos and crisis. Hopefully he’s not around to run in 2028 so it becomes a moot.
Presidential candidate gets extra protections from prosecution and can raise pac money for bribes.
Yes, I fully expect SCOTUS to uphold that one 🙄
The Constitution specifically doesn’t call out Trump so…
/s
Arrest. Charge. Try. Convict. Execute.
Skip to the end.
Him and everyone who propped up that sack of shit.
Can we just skip to the end? We all know the results of the middle steps.
Who’s going to do the first step though? The police? The police that are bought and paid for by the people that should be arrested? The police that are actively murdering people in the streets instead of defending them?
I keep seeing this “arrest them” and “put them in jail for life” sentiment but nobody has a valid argument of how to do that in our current system without getting disappeared.
No you don’t fuckface
So, an automatic win for the dems??
He absolutely has the right to run. He certainly does not have the right to be elected. The 22nd amendment limits him to being elected twice. By all means, he should run. If anything, it will just ensure whoever the GOP nominates won’t win with The Idiot siphoning off the fascist voters.
However, by his own bullshit math (that he won the 2020 election), he shouldn’t be president now. The amendment specifically talks about being elected to the office more than twice. The only thing it says about serving in the office applies when someone else was elected the first time, and even then sets a limit on how many times that second person can be elected.
The 22nd amendment is pretty fucking clear on this one
“But what if it means two in a row!?!?!!?”
That’s a literal claim from some Republicans.
No no it has to be the first term, interrupted, then second, then third. The reason? Because they need to exclude Obama from running again.
I’ve heard this too. Utter insanity. Quick, dig up and reanimate the corpse of Carter.
They are terrified of Obama.
It really upsets them to see a black person with more IQ points than their entire bloodline combined.
And why wouldn’t it be?
To be a Republican is to be a grifter/conman/shitstain. Cheating is always on the table.
I know it’s hard to plan for all eventualities, but I really wish the founding fathers had covered things in a little more detail.
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice…regardless of whether the terms are consecutive.”
The founding fathers didn’t come up with the 22nd amendment, that was done in the late 40’s after FDR was elected four times in a row. The founding fathers intentionally left that one open, I think
Yes, it was intentional. They wanted the Constitution to be revised and expanded as necessary, rather than being bad law set in stone. They were well aware they couldn’t foresee the many issues that would come up, especially over time. That’s why the Constitution is often described as a “framework” for the US’s “laboratories of democracy”.
He just wants to run, the 22nd says he can’t be elected. Not that he can’t run.
That’s only for democrats.
he deserves it if people dont vote against the gop the next turn.
Thomas Matthew Crooks
Donald Trump joked with rally-goers on Thursday evening that he had “the right to run again”
His allies have dismissed the president’s claims as a joke.
We know where you stand guardian, didn’t need to tell on yourself that directly.
The Guardian has always condemned Trump
They have consistently pointed out his corruption, failures and all the bullshit
If you think The Guardian is supportive of Trump in any way, I question your level of media literacy
Trump never cared for your constitution so far, what makes you believe he’ll start now?
He doesn’t, obviously, per law.
Though law no longer matters and he will anyway, if he doesn’t die before then, which I think he will since his dementia is so advanced. But whatever.
He has the right to try! And I have the right to do what I need to stop him
“I was merely exercising my 22nd AND 2nd amendment rights at the same time”
He has the right to pay for as many runs as he wants, but he can only shit in the oval office twice if elected. Is his argument that he has never actually been elected?
he can only shit in the oval office twice
We’re already way past that.
