Speaking of his adoration for Trump, the former chief strategist said ‘he’s on fire, and I’m a huge supporter. I want to see him again in 2028’

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.

  • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

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

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to agree that since the 22nd Amendment doesn’t specify who enforces that the president can’t be elected, that it means Congress has to actively pass a law saying he can’t run.

        That’s what ultimately happened with the Colorado case.

    • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      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

        • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          Martial law lets you arrest people without trial, but it doesn’t directly allow you to just not hold an election, and you can only declare it “unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it”.

          I guess you could come up with some pretence then impose martial law and make it clear that anyone voting the wrong way is going to get arrested, but at that point why bother with laws at all?

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      According to Trump and many many in the GOP, he was elected three times.

      After two years into this term, he will be disqualified twice from running again.

    • Australis13@fedia.io
      0·
      5 days ago

      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

      Unfortunately, there’s an obvious loophole right there that they will argue for. The 22nd Amendment doesn’t say that Trump can’t be VP and take over as President on Day One. It just restricts how many times he can be elected as the President. He could theoretically run as VP and have an enabler run as President an indefinite number of times - there are no limits to the number of times somebody can be elected as VP: https://www.factcheck.org/2008/04/vp-term-limits/

        • Australis13@fedia.io
          1·
          5 days ago

          Ah, good catch. I’d forgotten about that. Apparently the 12th Amendment should narrow that loophole significantly:

          But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

          Honestly, the whole insurrection thing should disqualify him anyway, but again they’d probably argue that he’s not ineligible for the office of President, he just can’t be elected to it due to the 22nd Amendment.