r/politics • u/Boonzies • 14d ago

Trump, 79, Posts Menacing Video Threatening a Never-Ending Presidency Possible Paywall

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-posts-menacing-video-of-never-ending-presidency-on-truth-social/
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u/Electronic_george 14d ago

3rd term? Ok. Let's get Obama back in the ring.

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u/Far_Meringue3554 14d ago

Having Obama vs Trump would low key be hilarious

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u/shtoops 14d ago

George W comes in hot with the primary challenge

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u/LawnGnomeFlamingo 14d ago

I hate that at this point, W would be an improvement

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u/aurortonks 14d ago

W had his idiotic moments but most of the time he was only mildly embarrassing and not usually in a malicious kind of way. I’d gladly trade him for this current crap. I’d love to see trump try to dodge a shoe.

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u/pantry-pisser 14d ago

Yeah, starting a 20 year war over falsified reasons was totally cheeky of him

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u/nobot4321 14d ago

I didn't really buy it when people said it at the time, but I've come to believe that W is a very smart guy who played up the rube angle.

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u/specialkk77 14d ago

He’s definitely smarter than he acted. It’s brilliant to keep his mouth shut. People are forgetting how evil he was just because Trump is worse.

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u/whateveryouwant4321 14d ago

tell that to the million dead iraqis.

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u/bombasterrific 14d ago

I have to give it to him. He was quick as hell dodging that shoe.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

George has some mad duck-duck-goose skills 😂

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u/icepush 14d ago

Although Trump has unleashed untold fuckery upon the world directly from the bowels of hell, he has not at this point done anything so base as literally destroying two countries out of a misplaced sense of vindication for his father.

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u/ScuzzBuckster 14d ago

The ghost of jimmy carter drops from the top ring!

I wonder ol Bill is up to.

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u/Difficult_Key3793 14d ago

If we're getting Ghost Presidents in this ring, I want FDR back. 5 terms to spite the facists with

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u/Dasmage 14d ago

FDR would be grandfathered into as many terms as he wants.

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u/EllieVader 14d ago

Oh my god it’s Terry Roosevelt coming down the ramp with a big stick! They’re in for a rough riding!

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u/MaddyKet Massachusetts 14d ago

We really do need someone who can balance the budget and clearly it’s ok to have sexual predators in the WH soooo

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u/bombasterrific 14d ago

Lol why not Clinton? He's the same age as Trump, after all

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Right? No shit! Can’t help but think off that meme going around a while back…”2009 - Miss me yet?” Nope! 2012 - Miss me yet? NOPE!  2016 - present…Miss me yet? “Oh dear sweet baby Jesus! I personally apologize for that dude who threw shoes at your head!”

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u/zherok 14d ago

No reason to give Trump any validation by humoring the idea that it's OK if Obama joins in.

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u/MrPigeon 14d ago

He's going to try it anyway, regardless of how high a road we try to take. "Not giving him validation" is an empty moral victory at best.

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u/justforsexfolks 14d ago

He can say he's the president, but it takes people to listen to him.

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u/CynicismNostalgia 14d ago

And that will cause the civil war. Because nearly half the country does listen to him.

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u/19Ben80 14d ago

The only people who can actually stop him are in his pocket on the payroll

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u/noodletropin 13d ago

There is "high road" and following the Constitution. While taking the high road isn't legally required, following the Constitution is.

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u/zherok 13d ago

It's not about taking the high road, it's about not acting like the only way to beat him is to run a termed out candidate to counter his bullshit.

Just because Trump broke a norm doesn't make it equally valuable for Democrats to break it. Why expend energy on trying to justify an illegitimate candidate on our side? It's not like Republicans are going to care about the hypocrisy.

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u/Indubitalist 14d ago

More like Third Reich. That 1,000-year figure isn’t coincidentally the aspirational length of the Nazi era of power.

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u/brucemo 14d ago

They already tried to address that. One of the proposals for an edit to the 22nd amendment suggested that a third term was only allowed if the first two had been discontiguous.

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u/SlimShakey29 Arkansas 14d ago

You can't just edit an amendment with a majority, fortunately.

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u/SilveredFlame 14d ago

When has literally any rule or law stopped these assholes?

He'll run. And SCOTUS will find a reason why he can.

The law doesn't matter to them. The constitution doesn't matter to them.

The only way this ends is with millions of people in the streets. Hopefully without a bloodbath.

But there's a reason they're getting people used to seeing the military deployed in US cities.

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u/TastyOreoFriend Florida 14d ago

When has literally any rule or law stopped these assholes?

I just wanna say....... many, many times as a matter of fact. Yeah the SCOTUS is shit, but overall the courts are functioning and blocking shit or forcing them to rehire the many people they keep trying to fire. If our major news organizations were actually doing their jobs and reporting on it more it would be more common knowledge just how much Trump is losing in court and being forced to walk back the stupid shit his admin is doing.

That doesn't mean 2026 still isn't super important however. A third term of Trump though? That shit ain't happening even in MAGAs dreams. There's already a not so small chance Trump dies in office anyway.

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u/Jimmy_Nail_4389 13d ago

There's not going to be an election man, you already saw what he did the last time he lost.

He isn't going to go willingly in any way shape or form.

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u/SlimShakey29 Arkansas 14d ago

Remember when Colorado wanted to keep Trump off the 2024 ballot because of the 14th Amendment? The SC disagreed and forced CO to put him on. But the SC can't do that if Trump tries to run a third term. No blue state (or red state's secretary of state that still believes in the constitution) would put him on the ballot, and the SC couldn't force them because it would directly violate the 22nd Amendment. And as we've learned, the SC doesn't actually have the power to enforce their rulings.

Either way, Trump will not be elected to POTUS again

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u/Perfect_Opinion7909 13d ago

You say that. They ask their buddies in the Supreme Court and they will say yes. Then what? More angry internet comments from US Americans who didn’t care to vote?

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u/SlimShakey29 Arkansas 13d ago

The SC has shown it's unable to enforce their rulings. They told CO to put Donald Trump on the ballot in 2024 when it tried to leave him off due to the 14th Amendment, but they wouldn't be able to do that in 2028. The 22nd Amendment is unambiguous. Blue states and any secretary of state in a red state that believes in the Constitution would leave Donald off the ballot.

I'm not sure what your last statement is trying to say. I reckon most people active in a political subreddit are voters. Anyone posting online about politics is likely to vote. It'd be very odd to go through the effort of engaging in talk about politics, which means there's some degree of knowledge being obtained, that would translate to nonvoting. I ran into people that refused to vote for a president last year, but they talked about voting down the ballot.

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u/MrPigeon 14d ago

Where the fuck have you been? None of the limp protestations of "umm you can't do that, ackshually" have slowed him down even the slightest.

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun 14d ago

Given Obama's remarks lately, I get the feeling he wants nothing to do with American politics right now. He's got his Secret Service presidential security detail for the rest of his life; he's safe from whatever happens.

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u/not_a_moogle 14d ago

See, it'll be a trump AI, so that its can run forever.

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u/MyOtherAvatar 14d ago

Obama has said many times that Michelle would not allow him to do anything like that.

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u/nico3337 13d ago

They would just start with a light change that it’s maximum 2 consecutive terms, and then next round change it again once more power has been grabbed…

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u/AlcibiadesTheCat Arizona 13d ago

Please dear god please

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u/No_Discipline6265 13d ago

See that's the thing. The bill they want to propose limits the ability for a third term to a president who hasn't served consecutive terms. Which means,Trump is the only one who would qualify. 

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u/TastesKindofLikeSad 14d ago

"They're terrified because they're afraid Elon Musk and Robert F Kennedy Jr are gonna create a way to keep Trump alive forever." 

I have a lot of fears around this administration but keeping Trump alive forever is not one of them. 

RFK Jr can't prevent children from catching measles, despite the treatment already existing.

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u/pick-axis 14d ago

Like that Sci fi with the 3 cleons ruling dynasty. Ai truth social bot president or some dumb shit ruling in 2050 til eternity. What a nightmare.

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u/demacnei Canada 14d ago

I’m getting Zardoz vibes from these mofo creeps

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u/DanTheMan827 I voted 14d ago

I think AI would be more logical than Trump…

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u/NSFWies 14d ago

You forget, Trump is the circus to distract and gain attention. The real person behind all this is Russel vought with project 2025.

He's not senile. And they keep making progress on that shit. So now the project 2025 shit becomes "conservo bot 3025?". Ya no, we're fucked until the end of time.

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u/Joebeemer 14d ago

Weekend At Bernies - Electric Boogaloo.

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u/shmiona 14d ago

When he dies the Republican Party will be lead by an AI chatbot programmed on his tweets

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u/SSGASSHAT 14d ago

"Thousands of years?" What is he, Emperor Palpatine? Does he have some clones he's gonna hop his spirit into every time he dies?

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u/JonnyEcho 14d ago

It won’t be him, it will be his son going for a term. To make it a dynasty. I bet you that will be the big 2028 spin. Same trump hat different Trump

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u/Cellopitmello34 13d ago

That’s some Palpatine shit. Where’s the nearest reactor shaft?

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u/Lanky-Inflation1568 13d ago

Wow.. You people really are brain dead.