A Republican House member introduced a resolution to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow President Donald Trump — and any other future president — to be elected to serve a third term.
″No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms,” the amendment states.
They are trying to make sure Obama can’t run again
The process to amend the US constitution is so convoluted it will never happen again.
Not in time for Trump to have a 3rd term anyway, if Trump even lives that long.
He’s just showing off how eager he is to get on his knees and lick the boots of the administration before they even asked him too. He needs Trump to know what a good boy he is.
Wow, this is unprecedented! Time for bipartisanship to take action!
Hell yeah let’s undo the FDR term limit bill and get more people like him elected.
They’re doing it for the wrong reasons, but I’d be happy if that limit wasn’t there. It’s fundamentally anti-democratic. Not that the us is a democracy and removing it now will just make fascist consolidation of power so much easier, but still
Nah, keeping a limit forces the MIC and other entrenched powers trying to push the US agenda around the world to stay in the bureaucratic shadows instead of gaining decades in the presidency outright.
Not that the us is a democracy and removing it now will just make fascist consolidation of power so much easier, but still
Would he even be alive by a third term?
I wouldn’t have guessed it was a Democratic sponsor.
Why?? This was even before Obama’s 2nd term. Just because they thought they had the numbers?
Honestly, I can’t remember the reasoning. I’m sure there’s a daily Kos article about it or something from back then. I do remember them claiming it wouldn’t apply to Bush, but those of us in left leaning spaces were pretty suspicious.
The current one is different so that unlike that one which would allow Bush or Obama to run again, it would forbid anyone with 2 consecutive terms from a third:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/29
That was fast
The ACLU is going to fight this hard. Until it passes, then they’ll support it 100%.
Shouldve done thia earlier so we coulda voted in jimmy carter
Carter only did one term, we coulda been voting for him this whole time
Oh now you tell us this!
Does it say anywhere in the Constitution that he still has to be alive to get elected?
Carter 2028
Open casket presidency
It would be extremely funny if most of the dems voted no but republicans find a way to push it through anyway
Are you serious? The Dems will absolutely vote yes for this
Called it
Be pragmatic honey. Key votes.
Death to America
i mean, given his age and health, even if he had the legal right to a third term i’d be shocked if he made it that far. Him croaking during this term isn’t even something I’d be that surprised about
He would be 86 by the end of a third term, bro is absolutely not making it that far.
Weekend at the Corpse president’s
i prefer the sequel where the corpse does a little shuffle towards making a nuclear strike every time he hears “YMCA”.
Many of those who live to very old age (90+) absolutely did not earn it based on a healthy lifestyle. I know this based on several relatives. Genetics are a helluva drug, plus the healthcare a president receives
Yeah I looked up how long his father lived after I wrote this.
Surely the grim spectre of death will stop Trump!
Trump: wriggles out
Ah, well, nevertheless…
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Oh fuck his father lived to 93
