Constitution of the United States
Twenty-Second Amendment
Section 1
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. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
THERE is a lot of damage being done by NOT MY pres musk and NOT MY pres drumpf / trump as well as their cabinet and the fascist authoritarian gop / greed over people-republican party controlled congress to the nation we, the people, need to be challenging and addressing. We do not need to take the bait and be distracted by an impossible drumpf / trump third term. From the Washington Post.....
Americans, STOP … being fooled by Trump teasing a third term
Anti-Trumpers should file the phantom terror of ‘Trump 2028’ alongside monsters under the bed.
Donald, STOP!
It’s worth a try. Evidently, this is how President Donald Trump feels world leaders should be addressed when they overstep. When every attempt to coax Vladimir Putin toward peace had failed — the fawning, the humiliation of Ukraine, the abandonment of European allies — Trump took to his failing social media platform Truth Social and bayed: “Vladimir, STOP!” in response to the Russian despot’s latest atrocity.
Sure, it sounds pathetically weak and simpering. It’s what the lunchroom monitor might say to a boy belching “The Star-Spangled Banner.” But we hear endlessly that Trump is a master communicator, a Demosthenes for the digital age. So, here goes: Donald, STOP! tongue-bathing dictators. STOP! tanking the economy. STOP! recruiting top government decision-makers from cable-TV studios and the fraternal order of the tinfoil hats.
And while you are at it, Donald, STOP! fleecing the gullible souls who have already been so generous with you, buying your ersatz crypto, your superhero tokens, your customized Bibles and baby onesies. New to the Trump merchandise mart is another red ball cap, list price an eye-watering $50 (shipping not included), emblazoned “TRUMP 2028.”
Either this is the soft launch of a campaign by Don Jr. or Ivanka, or it is the latest trolling of those fearful anti-Trumpers who go hook, line and sinker for the president’s frequent threats to run for a third term. Anti-Trumpers have plenty of real worries; they should file the phantom terror of term No. 3 alongside poltergeists and monsters under the bed, no matter how much TRUMP 2028 paraphernalia they see.
Donald Trump will not be on the 2028 ballot because he cannot legally be elected. No party would nominate Trump because to do so would be to forfeit the contest. This is not open to interpretation. It was written in plain English into the Constitution itself, in the text of the 22nd Amendment:
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”
Legal interpretation doesn’t get much simpler than that. Who can be elected president more than twice? No person. Case closed.
Because this is a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, it cannot be undone by Congress. Repealing the presidential term limit would require the assent of at least 38 states — an impossible hurdle for Trump, who has never won even a bare majority of the American electorate.
Nor is there any defensible justification for suspending constitutional election rules. The United States has observed lawful presidential elections every four years through every type of crisis: world wars, depressions — even a civil war.
If one reads enough MAGA musings, one will likely encounter the notion that the 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, is somehow ambiguous as to whether the two terms must be sequential. Perhaps Congress and Supreme Court can be convinced that Trump’s 2020 loss reset the clock on his eligibility. This is ludicrous. The theory assumes that the authors and ratifiers of the amendment simply blanked on the possibility that a president could serve two nonconsecutive terms. Yet it had already happened, just 50 or so years earlier, when Grover Cleveland’s second term was separated by four years from his first.
Given this fortress of no, why does Trump continue to flog the idea he might run again? Simple politics. Second-term presidents bleed power by the week, and Trump’s flimsy grip on Congress meant he started out a couple of pints low. His approval rating — even on friendly Fox News — is underwater after a month of economic chaos and a world of failed peace plans. Party diehards are already thinking about the battle to take his place.
Compounding the pull of gravity is Trump’s age: His 79th birthday is fast approaching. He is the second-oldest person ever to hold the office and if he lives long enough, by the end of his term he will pass Joe Biden as the oldest. Given the way the Biden story ended, there’s no reason to believe that American voters view extreme age as a presidential plus.
The last thing Trump wants the nation to think about is how little time he has left on center stage. Elon Musk has signaled that the U.S. DOGE Service is essentially done; he’ll nudge it along henceforth in his spare time. Congress has set up a bruising battle in the coming month over taxes and spending that will put a spotlight on the GOP’s failure to make meaningful progress on the debt. Once that’s over, the midterm elections will be in full swing, with Trump’s grip on Congress in serious doubt.
Of course he wants to stop time. But it waits for no one, as the Rolling Stones observed. “TRUMP 2028” is a valediction.
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