Mark Leibovich runs through Trump's musings about a third term. The better part of the article explains how Trump goes from joking about something, to musing about it, to asserting it's actually true, to the MAGAt GOP going all-in on the absurdity. Think the Gulf of America or annexing Greenland.
It's a cult.
Still, there's a vanishingly small chance of this happening. There is, of course, the XXII Amendment prohibiting a third term. That seem pretty freaking clear to me. Even clear enough for Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Then we had the scenario where JD Vance runs with Trump as his VP, then Vance resigns and Trump ascends back to power. This is what Putin did when was term limited (he has subsequently ended term limits).
The problem with that is the XII Amendment:
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
So Trump - who is barred from running a third time - is constitutionally ineligible to be president for a third term, so he cannot be vice president. Plus, that ambitious shitsack Vance would likely turn on Trump as soon as his hand came off the Bible.
Then there is the fact that Trump is once again reminding people why they kicked him out in 2020.
Can Trump serve a third term? Only if the American experiment in representative government dies before 2028.
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