Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), who served as lead counsel for one of Trump’s impeachments, fretted: “It’s the same thing now [about a third term]. This is how Donald Trump operates. He floats it, he normalizes it, and then it just becomes part of the common parlance.”
Memo to Goldman: Even if Trump were serious, there is a bit of a speed bump. It is called the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. It says, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” So, if you’re keeping score, Trump has maxed out. And given that Trump insists he actually won in 2020, he has really maxed out.
Of course, the Constitution can be amended, something that occurs on average every 10 years. Congress could start the process. But an amendment requires a two-thirds vote in the House, where Republicans have a majority by just a few seats, and in the Senate, where Republicans hold a 53-47 lead. Then three-fourths of the states would have to approve. The second way to amend the Constitution requires two-thirds of state legislatures to call for a convention to propose amendments. This has never happened. But, hey, fascists find a way.
To completely, totally and forever shut down a Trump third term, Goldman proposed a resolution stipulating the 22nd Amendment “applies to two terms in the aggregate as president of the United States” and it “applies to President-elect Trump.” It’s hard to get clearer than the clear language of the 22nd Amendment. But fascists find a way.
Trump’s joke scared the pants off Vanity Fair. In a piece headlined “There’s Nothing Funny About Trump’s Third-Term ‘Joke,’” it wrote, “So when he muses about staying in office beyond the second term he won last week, there is no reason to take it as anything but an admission of his actual aspirations.”
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