7d ago

Trump is ‘gonna be president’ in 2028, MAGA leader bluntly declares: ‘There’s a plan’

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When asked directly about the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits any U.S. citizen from serving more than two terms as president, [Steve] Bannon pointed to how there are “many different alternatives” for Trump to stay in office, but did not provide specifics.

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7d ago

Trump is ‘gonna be president’ in 2028, MAGA leader bluntly declares: ‘There’s a plan’

www.nj.com /politics/2025/10/trump-is-gonna-be-president-in-2028-maga-leader-bluntly-declares-theres-a-plan.html

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I don’t know if this happens, or if it doesn’t. There should be zero tolerance for even joking about this. The only thing that I will assert is this: If this happens, and some combination of: another branch of government, state governments, the public, law enforcement, the military, and the media, don’t immediately halt everything and throw his as in out, then the United States is over. I don’t mean ‘over’as a descriptor for decline. I mean it’s just immediately done. There is no nation, there are no laws and we have no constitution. The entire project ceases to exist immediately.
- Psst… it’s already over, because that’s what Billionaires want.
  
  Lol, the vast majority of Americans will never tolerate Kings, and we mean it. We're willing to die to ensure it never happens here. I know you don't believe me, so I'll just say sit back and watch us torch our billionaire class and eat their flesh. You'd be surprised what Americans are willing to do to ensure No Kings. Its not just a protest slogan. We fucking mean it.
To the watchful observer it is very clear that there is a plan. Deploying troops to urban areas, buying a voting machine manufacturer, installing Project25-vetted admin workers everywhere, .... the list goes on. It does not take a genius to see the intent.
- Not to mention expanding the bunker at the WH. Dude knows he's absolutely going to try to stay President no matter what happens. Expect full Franco.
- I think we need G.I. Robot in the whitehouse
- Watchfull?! Its blatantly obvious for even the blindest bat that they are not going to give up their front man who keeps the assholes behind the throne in power
He 100% doesn’t plan on leaving when his term is up. This stupid ass Epstein Ballroom that he’s having built (amongst other things) is proof of that.
So the constitution doesn't actually prohibit anyone from serving more than 2 terms as president, it prohibits someone being elected to the office of president more than twice (or once if they assumed office for more than 2 years of someone else's term.
In 2029 Trump could be elected as speaker of the house and then Vance and Dr. Evil resign as POTUS and VP and bam, Trump round 3.
Trump could also be directly elected to the Vice Presidency, though the legal ground there is shakier given the 12th amendment.
Ultimately, SCOTUS would need to weigh in because there is enough ambiguity in the constitution to allow for just the scenarios above.
Good thing SCOTUS is chock full of no-nonsense nonpartisan jurists of the highest integrity.
- The 12th Amendment provides that “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President.” As such, anyone barred by the 22nd Amendment from being elected president is also ineligible to serve as vice president, and so a twice-elected president cannot return to power through vice-presidential succession.
  If a person is constitutionally “ineligible to the office of President,” they are also skipped over in the presidential line of succession under the Presidential Succession Act (3 U.S.C. §19), which prohibits anyone ineligible to serve as president from assuming the office.
  The ghouls in power currently don't understand or don't care, and by the time this is tested, it will likely be rubber stamped by the supreme court. But, there's still value in understanding ahead of time that no, that is not a constitutionally valid approach.
  
  the Presidential Succession Act (3 U.S.C. §19), which prohibits anyone ineligible to serve as president from assuming the office
  "No it doesn't. Your statement is now literally incorrect."
  USA SC
  
  Not quite.. the constitutional requirements to be president are simple: Natural born citizen, 35+ years old, and US residency for at least 14 years.
  It is an open legal question whether and how the 12th and 22nd interact to determine eligibility. The intent seems clear, but the language of the 22nd very plainly concerns only election to the office, not assumption of it.
- though the legal ground there is shakier
  Like everything he's done every single day since inauguration
I don't think he will be cogent enough to not be shitting himself by 2028. Bannon et. al, keep acting like Trump is a fit, lean, 57 years old and not the fat, addled 79 year old following his own father into the sunset of dementia.
- He's already shitting himself. The smell is apparently horrid.
- Cognizance doesn't matter when they pin him being a religious figure.
- The backup plan is A Weekend at Donnie's.
  
  You joke but they have the AI tech for it
Unless he dies he'll be President in 2028, his current term isn't set to expire until 2029
- This feels like the sort of intentional ambiguity someone like Bannon would do to test float an idea. If people freak out he'll just point to the technical truth and if they don't he's taken a step to normalizing the dictatorship.
  
  Idk, they make it abundantly clear in that interview that they are angling for a third term and skirting the 22nd amendment. He can blabber all he wants about technicalities but at the end of the day he explicitly states he'll have another term, shit he even said two if that's what they need to "finish what they started."
  Just think about a 90 year old Donnie rolling around the oval office in a mech suit or something with his head in a glass jar Futurama style. We're gonna be so great...
So? If the Founders COULD have Predicted Trump they WOULDNT have Written that Amendment!
-School Shooting Supporters!
- The 22nd amendment ratified in 1951?
Addled mushbrain probably won't be able to form actual sentences by that time. Not that he could do that before.
Education is important. And not doing drugs. And not being a worthless narcissist nepo who has never worked an honest day in his pathetic life. And not being stupid. And not being a thief, a pedo, and a rapist...
- Not that any of that matters to his fan base
Yes, of course he is (if he's still alive). His term doesn't end until Jan. 20th, 2029.
I mean, yeah. And he wasn't president in 2024. That's how election cycles work.
(Just pointing out the stupidity, obv the whole thing is batshit)
Tell me you don't understand how election/inauguration works without actually explicitly saying it…
- They understand, they just don't care.
An orange vegetable for 2028? Imagine the debates.
Bannon sieg heiled. Fuck em.
He went on to call Trump a “vehicle of divine providence.”
How to make fascism even worse: mix it with a religious cult
- "Gott mit uns"
I mean, it’s not hard. Vance (or whoever) runs as President, Trump in the VP slot, then if they win, whoever it is resigns. That’s literally all it takes.
- You have to be eligible for president to be vice president, for obvious reasons. Sane states won’t allow him on the ballot.
  Question is, are there enough insane states to let him win?
  
  Yes
- Exactly, there's no mystery. This is the plan.
I think they mean Stephen Miller staying in office, not Trump.
- Of all the crazies in the upper echelon of the regime, he scares me the most.
  He's absolutely psychotic, toxic, and unhinged, wrapped up into a person way too put together to know anything about hyper masculinity.
  And the full military is in his control.
  
  He is the Goebbels of this situation that's for sure.
- Bannon actually. But, he seems to be backed by the tRump 2028 hats.
No doubt he’s learned some tricks from Poot. Only question is whos going to be the US’ Medvedev.
Of course he will? New president isn't sworn in until 2029.
The Plan: Weekend at Bernie's
I’m more concerned about who will be president in 2029 and beyond.
Rename it Supreme Leader If The American people and have no rules on how long he can be there.
Or change his name and SSN
That guy might croak, such clowns these people.
- Death is inevitable even for the most hate fuelled of pieces of shit like him.
  Which, for me, will be there best day in a long time. The bit that really fucks me off is that he'll not die in prison, like he deserves.
  Furthermore, because of the spineless wankers in his opposing power, even if the us population manage to get the obese imbecile out of office he'll still not feel any consequences for his crimes and actions.
  I'm not american, nor want to be or ever wanted to be. Hell, it's been off my holiday list for about 15 years, and I'm absolutely furious about him just getting his way all the fucking time. I just don't know how you -intelligent and not corrupted- americans can stand it.
That shitty old bitch is barely lucid. The reaper is laughing at this "plan".
- He's a puppet.
  
  I've been saying this for a while. It seems super obvious.
They have a plan?
Holy shit you guys, these ghouls aren't lizard people! They are god damned cylons!
A nation overflowing with firearms and angry people disagree.
Well then let’s bring back BIll…..
Fuck that website. And fuck Trump. I really hope he FAFOs
Does Bannon actually have any inside information though? I feel like he was sidelined a long time ago.
- Maybe the tRump 2028 hats show a spark of truth?
  
  I’m not saying it isn’t happening but that does Bannon actually know anything we don’t? I’m not convinced.
There it is folks, 2028: the year America turned to a balls-deep anarchy and broke ties with any semblance of organized government.
The moment this shit is made official, there be nothing to lose.
- A dictatorship is pretty much the polar opposite of anarchy.
- Do not slander the good name of anarchy.

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