Trump lashes out suggesting he could stay in office after two terms, amid poor approval ratings

[highplainsdem]

Source: Independent

Donald Trump has lashed out at his favourite bogeyman — the news media — in a Twitter thread suggesting the American people would ask him to stay in the White House beyond two terms, in violation of the US Constitution.

The tweets come amid reports that Mr Trump's own campaign has conducted polling showing him losing in key 2020 battleground states to Joe Biden, and as public polling shows him losing to many of the top Democrats vying for their party's nomination. Mr Trump has meanwhile lashed out at the idea, and has said that his internal polling actually shows him "winning everywhere."

"The good news is that at the end of 6 years, after America has been made GREAT again and I leave the beautiful White House (do you think the people would demand that I stay longer? KEEP AMERICA GREAT), both of these horrible papers will quickly go out of business & be forever gone!" Mr Trump tweeted on Sunday morning, shortly after attacking the New York Times and Washington Post both as a "disgrace to our Country" and the "Enemy of the People."

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The suggestion that the American people would want Mr Trump to stay in the White House after eight years as president is also not a new one, but shows that the president has the idea on his mind in spite of its obvious unconstitutionality. American presidents are limited to being elected to just two four year terms as a result of the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, which was ratified in 1951.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-us-president-stay-in-office-two-terms-approval-ratings-nyt-a8961041.html

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GD thread about this here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212193326

[Pluvious]

1. Fear not Dumb Donnie...

History will not forget you.

[gordianot]

2. Mentally ill Malignant Narcissist

[brush]

35. And a delusional liar. Let him try and he'll how quick he's thrown out on his ass.

[Firestorm49]

3. The words of an avowed fascist. Wake up, America.

It’s time to take action while we still can.

Day by day, this sham of an administration is tearing up the fabric of democracy while we sit back and wonder what we should do. Will we still be twiddling our thumbs after he bans any media but his own? Will we be sitting around looking dumb as he jails each and every vocal critic? Will we sit around looking stupid when he thinks he can run a third term? How long will we put up with Comrade McConnell and his loyal band of blind ideological idiots?

Wake the fuck up and do something. Time may be running out faster than you think. The closer we get to 2020, the closer the adversarial involvement in our elections will become.

Take the chance. Make the tough decision, or forever shut up and live with one party rule for the rest of your life.

[Doodley]

27. This needs to be said out loud by all of us. As each day goes by Trump is inflicting more

damage on America and the rest of the world. He needs to be stopped before there's nothing left.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

43. What we need is to STOP having this conversation.

We need to stop giving this ridiculous fantasy of his any traction.

He seems to think this is up for debate. No, donnie. It's not. The Constitution - you know, that thing you've been wiping your ass with for two years -- will hold.

You will NOT remain in office longer than the law allows.

If you refuse to leave, we will take you out by any means necessary.

[Sneederbunk]

4. That balloon will come crashing to earth on Nov 3, 2020.

[patphil]

5. totally disconnected from reality

so sad!

[SKKY]

6. This is actually kinda scary. He' not floating this out there by accident.

[Mc Mike]

7. Fuck off, fascist fathead.

You've done around 8 days of actual presidenting, in the last 2 + years. At this rate, you'd have to have do a hundred and ninety more terms to actually perform the work owed from one presidential term.

[Doodley]

28. Don't invite him to stay for 190 more terms! He might accept your offer!

[Mc Mike]

45. Rump's Head for Prez 2120.

Walt Disney's Head for VP.

[PatSeg]

8. Gee

I thought he fired his pollsters! Maybe he's personally conducting his own polls.

[Firestorm49]

9. Delusional old fool. What a gasbag.

[Lonestarblue]

10. Trump has become our crazy uncle who talks incessantly and just makes things up.

He embarrasses the hell out of us, especially on the international stage, and he endangers our national security every day with his leaks and his buddy-to-buddy unmonitored talks with Putin. I wish someone at the Pentagon had not leaked about their decision not to share sensitive information with Trump because now he’ll try to force them to do so, but it actually relieves me somewhat that saner headers will not follow his every order. If he refuses to leave office after he loses in 2020, surely we have people who will escort him out.

[Honeycombe8]

11. He's mentioned this several times now. People would be unwise not to take it seriously.

Just like, "Russia, if you're listening...we need those missing emails!!!" (and the emails were forthcoming in the next day or two)

I would not put it past McConnell to try to change the Constitution so that Trump could serve a third term. That's exactly the sort of thing he'd do.

We must beat Trump in 2020 by a large enough margin to overcome the Russian hacking and the Russian-connected "third parties" (like Jill Stein), which will syphon votes from the Democrats.

[highplainsdem]

12. McConnwll can't do this. He'd need a much larger GOP majority in the Senate, plus a large GOP

majority in the House, then the backing of most state legislatures.

There's more of a risk from a constitutional convention requested by a 2/3 majority of state legislatures.

https://www.commoncause.org/resource/u-s-constitution-threatened-as-article-v-convention-movement-nears-success/

[NYC Liberal]

33. Well fortunately a Constitutional convention can only propose amendments.

Every one of them would still need to be ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures.

[highplainsdem]

13. Btw, I think it's most likely Trump wouldn't bother trying for a constitutional amendment, but would

just declare a national emergency and suspend elections, and hope he has enough control of the government to stay in power.

[Honeycombe8]

25. This. nt

[Doodley]

29. Yes, if Trump had to choose between leaving office or launching nukes, it is obvious which one he

would choose.

[LuckyLib]

44. This. Why should he think of leaving the WH? The minute

he steps out of the WH he will be on the trail to jail. Who’s going to haul him out?

[TwilightZone]

15. There's no point in taking it seriously. It's laughable.

It's nothing but a fantasy and we should stop treating it like anything but.

McConnell can't change the Constitution without an amendment. Not happening. Welcome to Constitution 101.

[Dave Starsky]

17. The same Constitution that contains an Emoluments Clause?

The same Constitution that has absolutely NO mention that the Supreme Court has the power to decide a Presidential election (see Bush vs Gore)?

That old thing? Do you think this government still follows that?

[Honeycombe8]

26. Exactly. The Law no longer means much, as it relates to Trump.

Who's going to stop him, if he stays? Who's going to arrest him? The S.Ct. is stacked with Trump loyalists.

Him staying for an extra term is about as silly as an orange haired reality show billionaire becoming President.

[sakabatou]

14. He wants to stay in office forever

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

18. He doesn't even know how long ONE term is.

He said his two terms conclude "at the end of 6 years," unless a grateful America begs him not to leave.

[Jedi Guy]

23. In fairness, two terms would equal leaving office a little less than six years from now.

January 2025. The rest of his statement, like all of his statements, is absolute garbage, though. If he thinks to just squat in the White House after he loses an election or after his second term is up (God forbid), he's stark raving bonkers. Despite the fact that the military tends to break conservative, I don't see them siding with him in such a scenario.

[Doodley]

30. He will say the election was rigged and have some phony proof and stay in office while it is

investigated, just like W. Bush moved into the Whitehouse even though all the votes hadn't been counted.

[sop]

34. When he loses in 2020 he will claim the election results are fake, demand recounts in every state

he loses, file lawsuits everywhere and never concede or leave willingly. He will foment some kind of uprising among his base, though I doubt many of them will actually risk their lives for Trump.

In the end, he'll set up some kind of government-in-exile down in Mar-a-Lago, where he will spend the rest of his miserable life tweeting, calling in to FOX News and Limbaugh, spreading his lunatic conspiracy theories and doing everything he can to delegitimize the next administration.

We will never be rid of this monster. Trump will be in our lives till the day he dies, and beyond. For the next thirty years we will be reliving the entire nightmare through history books and memoirs.

[Dave Starsky]

16. He. Is. Not. Leaving. Ever.

Not even if we vote him out. We need to take a deep, cleansing breath and come to grips with that.

[jmowreader]

22. You forget one thing

The Commandant of the Marine Corps is completely through with Mango Mussolini for his attempts to divert Camp Lejeune reconstruction funds to that fucking wall. If Trump tries to become president for life, the Commandant will send a platoon of Marines to drag Trump out by the heels.

[Jedi Guy]

24. Agreed, the military wouldn't just sit there and let him declare himself President for life.

Even though the armed services largely tend to break conservative in voting and ideology, I can't see them just shrugging and allowing him to stay in office if he's voted out or his second term is over. Just my opinion, but I don't think he's all that popular with the higher-ranking folks in the officer corps. He shits all over McCain on the daily, and McCain was one of their own.

[wryter2000]

32. If he loses in 2020

A new President is inaugurated and becomes the commander in chief. Then that person can have the Secret Service or some more appropriate agency evict him from the White House. I’d pay to watch that.

[jmowreader]

36. Oh my, that would be the best...

If they HAVE to evict him, I want them to take him out the back door and deposit him on Constitution Avenue...preferably by dropping him from waist height onto his useless face.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. All he needs to do is repeal the 22nd amendment.

And then pack his bags, to make room for President Obama.

[Skittles]

20. he is SO PATHETIC

[FakeNoose]

21. Taking for granted that he will win next year

Really Chump? You really think you'll win in 2020?

I think not! You'll be gone but not forgotten.
Headed for prison along with your entire family.

[Doodley]

31. Most of us took for granted he'd lose in 2016.

It is still a very strong possibility he will win again next year.

[jmowreader]

37. The end of six years?

Is the bastard so fucking dumb he doesn't realize the "end of six years" is either two years after he's been voted out of office or two years into his second term?

[oldsoftie]

38. Stupid headline.

"do you think the people would demand i stay longer?" is nothing different than what he says pretty much every day. Meaningless.

[The Liberal Lion]

39. I remember Putin saying similar things

[LogicFirst]

40. If Trump sought a third term

Mitch and the boys would help him succeed. Please Kentucky, vote Mitch out of office. He is why we need term limits. One state can dominate the other 49 for forever.

[joanbarnes]

41. ...demand he stay in prison.....

[The Mouth]

42. He's just trolling

[Cha]

46. Your Stupid Psychotic ASS is OUT

After one Vicious term.. you Fucking Moron.