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Miles Archer

(23,257 posts)
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 08:41 AM Oct 2025

Trump: "it's too cute. Yeah, I would rule that out because it's too cute. It's not--it wouldn't be right."

So Trump thinks a third run for president would be OK, despite being unconstitutional, but running as VP...which he could do legally...would be "too cute."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-brags-hed-love-to-do-a-third-term-as-president-of-the-united-states/

Trump has not only refused to rule out running for the presidency again in 2028 but is now actively bragging about just how well he’d do.

“I would love to do it,” the MAGA leader told reporters Monday aboard Air Force One, en route to Japan. “I have my best numbers ever.”

“We have great people. I don’t have to get into that, but we have one of them standing right here. We have, JD, obviously the vice president is great. Marco’s great,” he said.

But he also made it clear that if he did run again himself, there’s no chance he’d consider playing second fiddle. “Yeah, I’d be allowed to do that,” he said of a prospective vice presidential run. “I guess I think it’s too cute. Yeah, I would rule that out because it’s too cute. I think the people wouldn’t like that. It’s too cute. It’s not—it wouldn’t be right.”
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LeftinOH

(5,648 posts)
1. "I have my best numbers ever..." He actually has his worst numbers ever,
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 08:48 AM
Oct 2025

which further proves that his circle of fiends are presenting him with fake stats.

sop

(18,605 posts)
4. Trump Has an Aide Who Follows Him Around With a Wireless Printer to Print Out "Good News From the Internet"
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 09:29 AM
Oct 2025

"This week, as the Stormy Daniels hush money trial kicked off, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman noted the presence of a figure in court whose job responsibility sounded like a joke, writing that her job was to carry around a 'wireless printer' to provide the former president with an 'ongoing stream of good news from the internet.'"

"But it turns out that the aide is very real. Her name is Natalie Harp, a former One America News anchor who joined Trump’s communications team in March 2022. According to reporting that year by the Washington Post, Harp would even accompany the former reality TV host on golf trips in a cart 'equipped with a laptop and sometimes a printer to show him uplifting news articles, online posts, or other materials.'"

"In Trump’s chaotic inner circle, nothing is really surprising anymore — but an employee tasked with printing out good news for the tech-phobic former head of state might just take the cake for an unintentional character study...Per WaPo, other aides were tasked with asking Trump’s allies to call him and 'boost his spirits with positive affirmations.'"

https://futurism.com/the-byte/trump-aide-wireless-printer-good-news

Natalie Harp followed Trump to the White House when he was inauguarated again in 2025.

VMA131Marine

(5,269 posts)
3. Trump cannot legally run for VP
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 09:05 AM
Oct 2025

The VP candidate has to be constitutionally qualified to be President and Trump would not be having already served two terms.

This idea gets floated a lot and it’s still wrong.

Orrex

(67,108 posts)
5. It would be interesting to see who'd stop him.
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 09:39 AM
Oct 2025

Of course, he'll likely have stroked out by then, so here's hoping.

CTyankee

(68,197 posts)
6. I think you are 100% correct. Otherwise, it is just antithetical to our democracy. But what happens if he tries to?
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 10:00 AM
Oct 2025
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