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Donald Trump has announced he will run for president in 2028 during a rambling speech to the Washington press corps.
Trump was speaking at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner when he appeared to make the announcement.
I won three times, now I’m gonna do it again,” he said, while putting on a cap that read “Trump 2028″.
“I’m gonna do it again. It should be easy.”
He went on to add that he won in 2020 but the election was rigged.
The 80-year-old was met with a smattering of applause, but even he did not seem excited by the moment.
Over the dead body of every patriot that stands for the Constitution, which reads in pertinent part:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice
-22nd Amendment
*Edit: Here’s the video of his announcement:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xyzWui2OX2I&t=2s&pp=2AECkAIB
He seem like he’s just joking to you?
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Don’t forget that he is only president NOW because we are already ignoring the constitution. Don’t act like breaking a different amendment is any different. We already lost our constitution and rule of law when we stopped enforcing them.
14th amendment - Section 3
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
He engaged in insurrection, Congress never voted to remove it, he is holding office NOW despite our constitution stating quite clearly he is ineligible.
Illegitimate president.
You can bullshit around the insurrection label, but the term limit is pretty cut and dry. Not going to stop them, but the ramp is how we got here.
Is it though? I’ve already seen arguments like “It only means two CONSECUTIVE terms” and other such bs arguments.
The thing is, if no one enforces a law then you have no law. You can write a rule on a piece of paper, but if you don’t follow it what does it actually mean?
Even without the consecutive terms bit that’s obvious nonsense there is a legitimate legal question that could potentially be used and legal. It’s not a new theory floated for Pedonald, it’s been an unsettled question since the passage of the 22nd Amendment. 22nd Amendment’s relevant bit is
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.
By the most narrow, strict reading of the text it only prevents election, if they can find a way to become President without being elected such, there’s a reasonable read that 22 doesn’t trigger. 12th Amendment contains the text
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Does ineligibility to be elected trigger the ineligible to the office clause? Could he run as VP with a loyal puppet who immediately steps down? Main legal opinion is “probably not”, but there’s enough wiggle room there that I wouldn’t trust the current corrupt Supreme Court not to side with him.
Exactly. Two big things at play with all this.
A. Legal loopholes and bizarre interpretations of wording. We see it every day, lawyers and politicians and the elites find the craziest ways to dodge the laws that bind your or I.
B. He ALREADY violates COUNTLESS laws and the constitution and the amendments and none of those are being enforced. He violated the 14th by inciting and enabling an insurrection, no consequences. He has committed treason with foreign powers, no consequences. He stole government documents and had them at his damn resort, no consequences. He committed election interference and fraud, no consequences. He diddled little children, no consequences. He’s committed non-stop grifts and scams and frauds with his status of PUBLIC OFFICE as president for personal gain at the expense of the country, no consequences. And no one even wants to read this far, but the list keeps going. Not a single REAL consequence yet, he’s captured all 3 branches of the government and has loyalists everywhere that are stopping any real actions against him, just like a classic mob crime boss.
So if laws can be dodged or interpreted differently and if the laws we do have simple aren’t being enforced then there literally is nothing preventing him from continuing on, and he can make up whatever scenario he wants to pacify his brain-dead-followers into believing it’s the “right thing to do”.
Hell, he could just say “the libs are trying to come get ya! I need to stay president to stop em!” And 77mil people would fall in line. Ugh.
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You make good points.
Yeah, the Supreme Court finding that the President was exempt from that wording really shows you the hoops they are willing to jump through to take over the government.
I’m horrified but also morbidly curious to see what bullshit they’ll be coming up with next to let Trump continue to rule.
They can just declare “a term” to mean 10 years. Or say “the law means two CONSECUTIVE terms is the limit” or whatever they want.
If no one stops them or holds them accountable or enforces the law or constitution then what’s the point of having any laws?
Not that laws have ever been fairly enforced, but come on…
From that website…
wtf? plz, no. That idea needs to be shot down right now.
I seriously doubt that Hunter Biden is even remotely interested
He’s said he’s not.
granted, he can’t be worse than the asshole we currently have, but, like. that’s a very, very low standard. Positively subterranean.
Highly subterranean, that bar is in actual hell
You thinking what I’m thinking? First mole person president.
America will only vote for a moleMAN.
(Hans Moleman 2028)
Anyone who isnt backed by an organization hellbent on executing LGBT+, stripping away the rights of women and bringing back slavery for anyone not white is better.
Lemmy can fuck off with the purity crusade already. Its old hat.
Like real talk.
I would be a better president than trump. But I would still be a terrible president.
You can fuck off with that “you’ll take a bad candidate and like it or else” bullshit. It’s a hat older than lemmy.
Why does he look like Micheal Scott in that photo? Lol
2016, Obama was president: Trump thinks that there were no problems with the elections.
2018, Trump was president: Trump doubts the legitimacy of the midterm elections
2020, Trump was president: Trump thinks that the elections were rigged.
2022, Biden was president: Trump has no complaints about the elections and calls it a “great night”.
2024, Biden was president: Trump does not doubt the legitimacy of the elections.
2026, Trump is president: Trump thinks that the midterm elections are going to be rigged.
I think that I am starting to see a pattern forming.
To be fairer to Pedonald than might be reasonable, he did question the 2016 results. Both before the election as a “if I lose it must have been rigged, because that would make me sad”, and after as a “I totally won the popular vote too, and every single state, but those fake votes made it look like I didn’t.”
Trump absolutely thinks there were over 3 million illegal votes in 2016 and the reason he didn’t win the popular vote. While president he didn’t demand or even mention having an investigation into what would have been the largest democratic voting fraud case in world history. There should have been thousands of arrests to pull off 3+ million illegal votes.
Only two outcomes.
- He made it up on the spot because he hates to lose anything.
- He was right but also extremely incompetent in not calling for an investigation and there were somehow no whistle blowers nor any evidence at all and he almost never talks about it later.
It is a common issue. The person who is loudly making the accusations is the often responsible for the crime. I have seen this several times at restaurants and in retail. The person pointing fingers is often the culprit.
Good Lord. If trump looked any more like roadkill, he’d have to fight to keep RFK Jr from trying to eat him. He looks like absolute dogshit. I didn’t think it was possible for somebody to look worse than Steve Bannon, and to be fair it’s really fucking close, but trump does manage to look like a slightly worse, bloated corpse here.
But he’s also a shitty president and a shitty person. Fuck trump. I can’t wait to open my bottle of bourbon when it happens.
RFK: Oh look!, I need to remove his penis for later. … wait, where is the penis? I should be here somewhere!
Okay, in context this headline and, really, the entire article seem pretty batshit. Trump did not announce a re-election bid. He told a string of awful scripted jokes that concluded with his dumb hat.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump-washington
The speech included a handful of scripted jokes, one at the expense of Robert F Kennedy Jr, his health secretary who he quipped had personally run over the cow that became the evening’s “very delicious beef tenderloin”. Kennedy has championed the health benefits of beef tallow and animal protein.
Trump also mocked the weight of Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, and Jerry Nadler, the New York congressman, imagining the two wrestling over a piece of cheesecake. He ridiculed the appearance of his critics, including Bruce Springsteen who he said “looks like hell” and took aim at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who had been honored earlier for her White House coverage, saying she does not smile enough. Trump said he “hated” Adam Schiff, a Democratic California senator, and one of his most prominent congressional critics, while mocking the size of his head and neck.
At one point, after a joke about term limits fell flat, Trump broke the fourth wall, asking the audience whether anyone understood “this whole freakin stupid speech that they wrote”.
Trump ended his remarks with a joke that landed awkwardly, declaring that he planned to run and win a fourth election – a reference both to his false claim he won the 2020 election and to his repeated suggestion that he could seek a third term, despite the constitution’s two-term limit.
It’s always a “joke” until it isn’t. This is textbook gas lighting, and its a documented tactic from him and abusers like him.
I think the reason no one’s reporting it is that it just isn’t a story. Trump makes comments like this all the time. There’s a difference between him making them and him actually announcing a re-election bid, which is the claim in the headline and article. Why would he even announce at the White House Correspondents Dinner while he’s bombing on stage? It just makes no sense. This reporting is bad.
If you listen carefully, you will find he never jokes. Testing the waters at least.
Sure. I mean, in this context it’s probably more trolling than that. Why test the waters in a room full of people who despise you? But that’s completely immaterial to whether this story is true. If the headline was “Trump indicates for the nth time he really wants a third term”, that would at least be defensible. It says that he has announced a re-election bid. He has not.
To the people downvoting, the point is that the headline is misleading. No one is saying that Trump’s statements are ok
For example, these previous incidents were not announcements either. It’s a BAD thing that he keeps making statements like this, jokes or not, but there’s still a difference between announcing a re-election bid and testing the water with “jokes”.
Jan 2025
Trump jokes about running for a third term in speech to House Republicans
It’s not the first time the president has publicly mused about seeking another four years in the White House, which would be barred by the Constitution.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-trump-has-said-about-pursuing-a-third-term/
Dec 2025
The comments came after he told NBC in March that he was “not joking” about seeking another term in office, after repeatedly publicly musing about the possibility. He also said at the time that despite the constitutional limitations, “there are methods which you could do it.”
Yes, you are technically right about that. But it doesn’t change the more important point.
About Trump? I doubt we have any disagreement about that. Not about who he is, what he is, what he wants, or how he behaves.
The only question I’m really asking here is: why is the reporting from this single Australian news organization so wildly out of step with every other news organization on the planet?
A common excuse of abusers and gas lighters is that they “were only joking”.
I don’t disagree with you.
But that has no bearing on whether this story is true. The claim is that he has “announced a re-election bid.” He hasn’t. And you know this – your recent comments are about him cloaking his intent or desire in feigned humour. I don’t disagree that he’s doing that. But, he does not need to do that if he has actually announced a re-election bid.
your recent comments are about him cloaking his intent or desire in feigned humour. I don’t disagree that he’s doing that. But, he does not need to do that if he has actually announced a re-election bid.
I think he (on a subconscious level) knows this would basically sign his death warrant if he officially did it cold turkey like you say would show it was real. That’s probably why he did it like this: to ease his way into doing it.
To use a relevant metaphor: raping children right away doesn’t work. They’re dry and scared. You gotta lube up first. This was him opening the lube bottle.
Jesus, dude.
Which makes it no different than his recent comments:
Donald Trump Fuels Third-Term Speculation After Saying He’d Like To Be ‘Next President’ (yesterday)
Donald Trump Mocked Over Word Flub After Joking About Running for Third Term as President (July 22)
Trump blends economic message with third-term tease in Pa. (June 23)
Also, that’s a gross metaphor.
Which makes it no different than his recent comments
So the gas lighting has been going on for a bit?
Also, that’s a gross metaphor.
Gross? We literally have someone who actually did that stuff sitting in the oval right this second. So, if anything, its a presidential metaphor.
Honestly it’s just textbook odd Trump ramblings. To say it’s gaslighting suggests some level of thought goes into what he says. He just not that smart.
He isn’t and neither is Bannon but their strategy has always been to desensitize the population.
They both mentioned the third term multiple times but amongst a thousand other flood the zone bullshit it just went through. When they officially announce it nobody will be surprised and 24h later there’ll be some other scandal like trump shitting his pants again.
It’s like a never ending stream of shit that keeps people in a state of outrage but never quite enough to not go to work and protest.
None of it is particularly smart and it’s all extremely obvious but it works.
This look like he’s not serious?
I can’t see anything on YouTube. Is this just the video version of the OP?
Yes
ok I wasn’t doubting that he said it…
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There was little laughter in the room as the president’s speech took on a harder edge. Not many people chuckled when he compared the “really beat-up faces” of UFC fighters with those of Bette Midler, Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen.
Mr. Trump seemed to realize he was losing the room. After a joke he told about the gerontocracy on Capitol Hill bombed, he said: “That was actually the only thing I thought was good in this whole fricking stupid speech. It was the only good one, and that went down with not exactly great laughter.”
He threw his arms up in exasperation and people started to laugh again.
As his speech reached its conclusion, he pulled out a hat and with a theatrical flourish plopped it on his head. It said, “Trump 2028.” Some clapped. Others laughed. Most of the reporters just stared straight ahead.
Can we finally skip to the part where we arrest him?!
That part will never happen. No matter what - he’s getting away with it. He’s too old to face any real consequences.
What we need to ensure is that responsibility doesn’t end with him. We need a new round of Nuremberg trials and his cronies and enablers need to be held to account.
No mercy. Those in the military who executed illegal orders should be court-martialed and executed.
You son of a bitch, I’m in
At this point we take small victories like him leaving office after his term and never coming back again
If I could trust the system to actually enforce the Constitution, I’d say bring it on. The 22nd amendment never prohibits running when you’re ineligible to be elected. I’d actually love to see him run, “win”, and then have to watch his opponent get sworn in because he’s not eligible.
IF I could actually trust that the Constitution would be enforced.
It’s official. He’s going for the Putin-esque “democracy”…a dictatorship where you beat the crap out of people at the polls for voting opposition.
No way he wins again unless he cheats
You mean like how he cheated this time and won? Yeah he’s gonna get a third term, cause who’s gonna stop him?
Pretty sure cheating is the plan. The only way he does business.
They already said Putin-esque.
Wait, that’s illegal
Oh damn its illegal?
Clearly the God Emperor would never do anything illegal.
Everything before this was fine, but I have to draw the line somewhere! /s
Horus on the other hand
According to the supreme everything he does is legal now
Then I hope you fuckers vote for Obama
I don’t think he would run
I don’t either. Personally I think the right-wing nuts would take shots at him
Top YouTube comment:
Obama has the chance to do the funniest thing ever!
Also trump: I will be running for Chancellor of FIFA, Prime Minister of India King of Spain CEO of Amazon Captain of Space Force The Czar of Mars and the world record for the largest, goldest ballroom in the Universe.
Czar Of Mars has a nice ring to it
Treason.
The morbidly obese fucktwit with a shitty spray tan and a flappy vagina on his neck thinks he can mock other people’s physical appearances. The irony is fucking rich.
This man has pulmonary edema. I’ve heard that voice before. If fluid is building up in his lungs, and it sure sounds like it is, he’s not going to survive to run again. The best medical care in the world won’t fix that. Just, slow it down.
I lost a cat that way. It sucked, they seemed confused and scared and in pain. So, you know, fingers crossed.
I hope whoever enabled autoplay on that website loses their favorite pair of socks
Just the left sock
You can block autoplay by default on Firefox-like browsers.
This is my theory: 1. Trump will try to declare a national emergency at the end of September or early October in order to stop the midterms from happening due to the ongoing “conflict” with Iran or any other geopolitical situation that he has caused himself. 2. The midterms will still take place, although it will be heavily scrutinized by the right with the possibility of violence toward people on the left on election day. 3. The midterms will heavily favor the Democrats leading to a total wipeout for Republicans in all states as a result the Republicans will cry foul and that they were cheated, causing immediate January 6 style riots all over the country and possibly even the capital again. 4. Regardless of the results of the midterms, Trump will use their results too justify him running in 2028 and at the beginning of next year he will do everything in his power to get the Supreme Court and anybody else to stand behind his presidential run and next summer, he will immediately pivot into campaigning. 5. While I do believe it is over for Trump and the Republicans, there’s always that small what if. If he manages to stay alive until 2028 I have that saddening feeling that there is a very good possibility he could win again. I will happily eat my own words on all of this, after it’s just a theory…stay safe and informed everyone.
