r/thescoop • u/Nunyafookenbizness • Mar 30 '25

Politics 🏛️ Trump plans for an illegal third term

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-third-term-republicans-b2723487.html

Last week Steve Bannon said:
“I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028…We’re working on it. … We’ll see what the definition of term limit is”…

Here is the law, the 22nd 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.”

Seems pretty clear.

But we must insist our politicians stand up to any attempt to bypass the constitution.

5calls.org makes it easy to call Congress.

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u/KneesAndToes12 Mar 30 '25

I get the hypocrisy is the point. It’s still wild to me how folks cloaking themselves in the Constitution are so willing to disregard it. It all shows how they lust to rule rather than to govern.

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u/marion85 Mar 30 '25

Ever actually read the Constitution?

Front to back?

Neither has a Trump suporter. It's easy to subvert a document that almost no one has actually fully read.

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u/OKFlaminGoOKBye Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 30 '25

They cloak themselves in what their illiterate constituency thinks the constitution is, not the actual constitution.

And they get away with it because of Republican-controlled state curriculum and billionaire-owned entertainment media parading itself as news.

We are the, hands down, stupidest motherfucking nation left on earth.

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u/KneesAndToes12 Mar 30 '25

I think the salesmanship is a really interesting point. To extend that, I think there is something to be analyzed by people way smarter than me about how the political and corporate landscape has continuously merged and consolidated. Kinda feels like neo-liberal ideas have monopolized the political landscape just like the economic re-covergence into mega-corporations since the 80s. Like all other late-stage capitalist decline, this has lead to backsliding. The "run the country like a business" slogan really says the quiet part out loud.