Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?

[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.

[LuFins Dad]

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

@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.

Easy fix… Just make him Speaker of the house after his term, then have the duly elected President and VP step down…

[Horace]

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

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

@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.

Easy fix… Just make him Speaker of the house after his term, then have the duly elected President and VP step down…

Terrifying.

[Horace]

@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.

We'd have just elected Obama for the fourth time.

[Copper]

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

a total of only two terms.

10 years

[Axtremus]

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

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

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

@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.

Easy fix… Just make him Speaker of the house after his term, then have the duly elected President and VP step down…

Terrifying.

Alright, who has to go to jail this time to make @Horace feel safe again?