I don’t really think Trump is going to run for a third term. I kinda doubt he’ll even finish out his second. I just think he says things — and their veracity doesn’t matter one bit for his purposes — because he knows they’ll thrill members of his hardcore base. Also of course, he has this “I can do anything I damn well want and no one can stop me” attitude about the world. Cut the clip from The Howard Stern Show where Trump says that because he owns beauty pageants, as he did at the time, he can walk into the dressing room when the contestants are naked.
The folks at U.S. News & World Report did a not-too-deep dive into the possibility of a third term happening.
Yesterday, I mentioned the possibility of Trump running as Vice-President to a cutout candidate who’d vow to immediately after taking office, resign and turn the Oval Office over to Donald. Based on my e-mail, I didn’t do a good job of indicating that while that could be what Trump means when he says “There are ways of doing it,” I don’t think it would work — not now, not then even if by the next election, the Supreme Court consists of seven Clarence Thomas clones.
A few of you mentioned another way he might now think he could do it: Congress names him Speaker of the House and then the Republican ticket is two people who’d vow to step down right after taking office. That would, of course, depend on the G.O.P. having control of the House but even then, I don’t think that would fly. It just might be one those “ways” he’ll pretend makes him eternal.
By the way: This fact check I’ve linked to today is a strange one from the folks at U.S. News & World Report. At one point in it, they say — and this is actually in there; I cut-and-pasted it…
According to The Associated Press, the 12th Amendment states that “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
What kind of fact-checker fact-checks something like that by taking some other fact-checker’s word for it? Did it ever occur to anyone at U.S. News & World Report to go to a better source? Like, say, looking at a copy of the United States Constitution?
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