Tennessee Republican proposes amendment to allow Trump to serve third term
Trump floated the prospect of running for a third term in a joke to House GOP lawmakers during a meeting in Washington before the conference had internal leadership elections.
“I suspect I won’t be running again, unless you do something,” Trump said a week after winning the 2024 presidential election, The Hill reported. “Unless you say, ‘He’s so good, we have to just figure it out.’”
Following the meeting, House Republicans told reporters that the remarks were not serious and that they laughed when they heard them.
“That was a joke. It was clearly a joke,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said at the time. “I leaned over to somebody beside me, [Arizona Rep.] Andy Biggs, and I said, that’ll be the headlines tomorrow, ‘Trump trying to thwart the Constitution,’ which — there’s nothing further from the truth.”
I said TWENTY YEARS AGO that the Republicans would try to pull this stunt for W. once he made it into his second term; I was slightly surprised that they didn’t, but then again that second term did kind of go south after Hurricane Katrina so obviously they would rather leave the Democrats to clean up their mess. I had a feeling they would eventually try it for Mushroom Cock. I was right. I just didn’t expect to be right quite so early into his next reign. Because some toady for Trump is introducing legislation to undo the 22nd amendment, which is the bit that stops presidents from running more than twice (because who wants to risk a repeat of F.D. Roosevelt? Only one of the most positively significant presidents the country ever had). Potentially term limits could cut off a good president and stop them doing further good, but, more likely than not, they should prevent Strom Thurmond happening. The article says Trump isn’t actually interested in a third term (and frankly I suspect he won’t actually last that long anyway), but frankly I don’t believe that… also, if it does happen, I hope it bites the Republicans in the arse and they end up staring down another three-term Democrat president in the future…
