Ockham’s Razor suffices to explain why Donald Trump can run for a “third term” as U.S. President in 2028 as well as why the short, fat fake Trump is permitted to continue acting as the president:
In a bold and unapologetic interview with The Economist, Steve Bannon, War Room host and former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, confirmed that a concrete plan is underway to secure the president a third term in 2028.
Dismissing the 22nd Amendment, which limits the presidency to two terms, Bannon emphasized that Trump’s third term is inevitable and essential to “finish the job” of restoring America. “He’s going to get a third term. So Trump ’28. Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people just ought to get accommodated with that,” Bannon stated during the interview with The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes and deputy editor Ed Carr.
Bannon did not lay out the plan, but said it will be revealed at the appropriate time.
“There’s many different alternatives. At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is. But there’s a plan, and President Trump will be the president in ’28,” Bannon said.
Beddoes responded, “I’m trying to understand the coherence of the things you’ve just told me in the last few minutes. On the one hand, you’ve said the Constitution is fit for purpose. Secondly, you said that President Trump needs another term, even though the 22nd Amendment makes pretty clear that he cannot have another term.”
“Why does it make that clear?” Bannon asked.
“Because he’s in his second term already,” Beddoes said.
First of all, there is no reason for President Trump to “respect the Constitution” considering the myriad of ways that the US federal government fails to respect it in any way, shape, or form and everyone in the world of politics knows that.
Second, the most obvious and logical explanation for Trump being able to serve another term is that despite his three electoral victories, he hasn’t served a second term yet. Which might explain why the white hats are content to let the short fat Trump pretend to be the President until the end of 2026, given the specific wording of the relevant Amendment.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Trump can probably prove that he has been elected to the office of the President more than twice already, but on both occasions he was prevented from acting as President “for more than two years of a term” to which he was elected. If he can establish those facts before the Supreme Court, there would be no legal justification to prevent him from a) serving out the last two years of the current term and b) being elected to what would actually be his second term and fourth electoral victory.