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.”
I understand his confusion here… the phrase is “consecutive sentences.”
Man, all those guns, and no one shot him in the face multiple times. What a shame. Damn shame.
That would never happen: These brave 2A champions have completely banned firearms from these conventions for security reasons.
It’s my biggest gripe against the left. Imagine betting your life on a game of football where one side is playing no contact tag rules and the other is playing full lethality death ball rules. We’ll sit here and talk about how they’re not playing fair, but pride parades won’t march with guns. We’ll cry about how horrid it is that they force their religion into our schools but we won’t use the same system to fight it.
The left will die for their beliefs, but the right will kill for them. Only one of those methods leaves survivors.
As the saying goes, “go far enough left and you get your guns back.” It’s not leftists clutching pearls over “gun violence;” it’s privileged centrist liberals (a.k.a. MLK’s “white moderates”) doing that.
Lol clutching pearls… What a laughably terrible way to describe people who are often burying their children or schoolmates and trying to prevent others from having to do the same.
He really, really wants to stay out of prison.
I’m a little surprised he hasn’t already tried to defect to Russia, but I doubt he’s clever enough to shake his secret service detail.
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
Of course this was going to happen, it was only a matter of time.
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
Least Nixon had the bottle to leave
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.
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
I give him another 3 or 4 years, dude is in terrible shape.
They love suckin his chode
If he gets even one we are doomed
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He already had one, dumbass.
It’s pretty obvious that person meant one more, dumbass.
In the last one, he still had fear of consequences tempering his actions. If he gets in again, his fear of consequences will be from losing power, not what acts he commits to secure it or siphon benefits from.
We’re doomed, dumbass.
Doooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmeedd
Now now Bender…
that’s how dictators dictate
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It’s illegal now specifically because of fdr, idiot
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22nd amendment was passed as a direct response to FDR’s four terms. But surely you knew that and are just being daft.
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And all that without even getting slammed or flattened. I guess he got away with it this time.
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.
That’s how I understood it too. I’ll be first to believe he wants to change that law but this article is trash
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.
He has also said his first term shouldn’t count because he was impeached. Never give him the benefit of the doubt.
Republicans hate the constitution, so… this checks out.
3, then 4, then 5… Just like putin.
Hey now, things aren’t that bad. No way Trump lives long enough for that.
“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.
