Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?

[jon-nyc]

What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?

[Axtremus]

@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?

Interesting question. He may even bring it up before inauguration.

How long did it take Bloomberg before he brought up serving a third term as NYC Mayor?

[Horace]

@Axtremus said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

How long did it take Bloomberg before he brought up serving a third term as NYC Mayor?

What an excellent question, Ax!

[Klaus]

@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?

Is that legally possible?

[Mik]

He can suggest anything but it won’t happen. I doubt he suggests it.

[Horace]

@Klaus said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?

Is that legally possible?

The process would be a constitutional amendment. Once constitutional amendments are on the table, almost anything is possible, for any president. It's always been that way, and it'll always be that way.

[Copper]

If the amendment did happen, Mr. Obama would be the next president.

Be careful what you wish for.

[Jolly]

Ain't gonna be no such amendment.

Utterings from the TDS Swamp without a shred of common sense.

[Mik]

@Jolly correct.

[LuFins Dad]

Besides, the message from the future tells us that Trump does and Vance takes over when he’s 39 years old. That means DJT must die…(checks the calendar) at least 7 months ago…

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?

Why didn't he suggest that last time?

[George K]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

Why didn't he suggest that last time?

He was too busy being a shitty Hitler.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

Why didn't he suggest that last time?

He was too busy being a shitty Hitler.

Yeah I know right, the Jewish community really had a hard time when he was pres—OH NO WAIT THAT'S THE OTHER GUYS.

[jon-nyc]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?

Why didn't he suggest that last time?

He still had a second term to look forward to. But he did once suggest he was owed 2 more years in his first term due to the Russia investigation.

[Copper]

@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

he was owed 2 more years in his first term due to the Russia investigation.

That's reasonable.

[jon-nyc]

@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?

Did anyone have 3 days on their bingo card?

I didn’t make a guess, but had I done so it would have been around midterms. Trump is already outperforming my expectations.

[89th]

Trump doesn't like to lose, but if the rule says he has to retire in 2028 when he's 82 I don't think he'll mind stepping aside and letting his protégé (Vance) take over in 2028. That would be a good GOP legacy, and it doesn't involve him risk losing.

To your original point @LuFins-Dad I think that is a good analysis. He was certainly caught off guard in 2016 when he won, but now he knows how the Swamp works.

[Horace]

I think the better reason why Trump won't try to run for a third term, is that he'd need to amend the constitution to do so.

[89th]

Call me a n00b but I always thought it was a limit of two terms consecutively... I didn't realize it was a total of only two terms.

[Tom-K]

@89th said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:

Call me a n00b but I always thought it was a limit of two terms consecutively... I didn't realize it was a total of only two terms.

“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” 22nd Amendment.