There's wiggle room, he's claiming a right to campaign. To run... He's not saying anything about being elected.

He doesn't actually do the electing. That's up to public, and the officials who are in charge of elections (who he'll try to stack with loyalists). He can't say what they'll do.

He runs, and if others elect him... Well... That's the wiggle room.

He just wants to run, the 22nd says he can't be elected. Not that he can't run.

Depends how much power he can consolidate between now and election time. Trump brags about telling the DOJ to sue Alaska over election results.

He could run and then do another J6 then use whoever shows up as a personal standing army, arming the loyalists and refusing to leave the Whitehouse for the actual winner.

I'm sure the ballroom bunker will be built by then.

Putin did this one time right? With Medelev

He has the right to pay for as many runs as he wants, but he can only shit in the oval office twice if elected. Is his argument that he has never actually been elected?

And that's why Vance and the other fascists are waiting until after the midterms to get rid of trump.

The whole world knows who Demented Don is.

Yes, and none of that prohibits him from running for office again. The only prohibition is that he cannot be elected a third time. But here’s the thing: we don’t actually vote for President; we vote for who our Electors elect as President, and they are Constitutionally prohibited from electing Trump to a third term. If Trump runs and “wins”, the Electors cannot elect him. He can win 0 Electoral votes. Doesn’t matter what their States’ laws require because the Constitution is the highest law in the land… until SCOTUS rules the 22nd Amendment violates the 10th Amendment. 🤷🏻‍♂️

That's not wiggle room, it's violating the Constitution. Not saying it can't happen, but it's not like that's a logic loophole, it's just not caring about acting illegally.

Which could maybe work but even the more loyal bootlicker guys will prefer to be president than not.

Presidential candidate gets extra protections from prosecution and can raise pac money for bribes.

Well, he can run again. It's just moot, as he can't be elected. If he were to get the most electoral votes, I guess the runner up is elected?

"I was merely exercising my 22nd AND 2nd amendment rights at the same time"

Who's going to do the first step though? The police? The police that are bought and paid for by the people that should be arrested? The police that are actively murdering people in the streets instead of defending them?

I keep seeing this "arrest them" and "put them in jail for life" sentiment but nobody has a valid argument of how to do that in our current system without getting disappeared.

He absolutely has the right to run. He certainly does not have the right to be elected. The 22nd amendment limits him to being elected twice. By all means, he should run. If anything, it will just ensure whoever the GOP nominates won’t win with The Idiot siphoning off the fascist voters.

However, by his own bullshit math (that he won the 2020 election), he shouldn’t be president now. The amendment specifically talks about being elected to the office more than twice. The only thing it says about serving in the office applies when someone else was elected the first time, and even then sets a limit on how many times that second person can be elected.

The election the Constitution is referring to is the Electoral College, not the general election.

no-one in the usa will enforce the constitution. So maybe just give it to him now because elon is just going to spend a billion to buy it anyway.

No you don't fuckface

Im sure he could make a convincing argument that he isnt a person and therefore should be allowed to sit for a third term.

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I bet in his third term he will definitely release the Epstein files right guys?

Therefore, by his own logic, he shouldn’t be in office right now, because he won in 2020, riiiight?

Funny how 2/3 of it is boilerplate and grandfathering.

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

This is why is fun to own a whole ass supreme court:

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

Words are fun for this guy

So, an automatic win for the dems??

Blue states shouldn't allow him on ballots if such a thing were to happen.

he can only shit in the oval office twice

We're already way past that.

he deserves it if people dont vote against the gop the next turn.

They should, eya. Just like they should have kept him off in 2024, since he was already ineligible as an insurrectionist.

but only a handful of states actually tried. funny how that worked.

Cool. How about those Epstein files?

That's why ne said he's going to run. He thinks he's smart.

I think the keyword here is “elected.”

They'll get released in Obama's third term. Thanks Obama!

There’s still one more box after November’s election.

The Guardian has always condemned Trump

They have consistently pointed out his corruption, failures and all the bullshit

If you think The Guardian is supportive of Trump in any way, I question your level of media literacy

If extra-judicial execution is good enough for a one year old, then it's good enough for the toddler in chief.

With his mental decline it is unlikely that he will be in any shape to overturn the constitution and mount a campaign. Then stranger things have happened.

If I were a fascist psychopath who had the opportunity to be part of such a scheme, I would 100% promise to step down and then not.

"Sorry everyone, I used my hall-pass to get re-elected so it didn't count... wah, I wanna be Mr.President again! Gimme, gimmie, gimmie"

Trump appointed president for his 3rd term

So what?

In the third term, he's gonna lower the price of gas and groceries & end the wars in Ukraine/Iran. Day 1. Bigly.

They genuinely don't care. I've seen many clips of republicans, the whole country over, saying they'll figure out a way to get him in a third term.

So who is going to stop it?

Trump will run again and probably win, perhaps fairly.

Oh, so THAT'S why the high gas prices are temporary. It all makes sense now.

And the 4th and the 5th time

Honestly, I support it. It'll be like the election of 1912 where Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican vote enough that the Democrat Wilson was elected.

To prevent that, he’d need to replace the secret service with loyal sycophants.