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Trump: Iran asked me to be Supreme Leader, but I said no thanks

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‘Men need to be perp-walked’ after Epstein files release, Massie tells BBC

A GOP lawmaker says the Epstein document releases are still falling short—because redactions and withheld material may be blocking accountability and survivor-centered justice.

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Trump fires Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

A Cabinet secretary was forced out amid contracting and oversight scrutiny, signaling that executive control—not transparent accountability—can dictate leadership of the agency driving mass detention and deportation.

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The Trump gold coin is not normal : Consider This from NPR

A federal design panel OK’d a Trump portrait for a commemorative gold coin, but the key question is whether Treasury can legally bypass long-standing limits meant to keep living politicians off U.S. money.

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White House Confronted Over Huge Bets Made Minutes Before Trump’s Big War Move

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Trump is ‘gonna be president’ in 2028, MAGA leader bluntly declares: ‘There’s a plan’

A top MAGA strategist is signaling a deliberate plan to evade the Constitution’s two-term limit, testing whether the rule of law still restrains presidential power.

Elections

Oct 23, 2025

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https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/10/trump-is-gonna-be-president-in-2028-maga-leader-bluntly-declares-theres-a-plan.html

Summary

Steve Bannon said President Donald Trump will seek and win a third presidential term in 2028 and claimed “there’s a plan” to keep him in office despite the 22nd Amendment’s two-term limit. The institutional shift is the open normalization of strategizing around a constitutional prohibition by a leading figure in the president’s political movement. The practical consequence is that public officials, voters, and courts are put on notice for an impending attempt to redefine or bypass a core limit on executive power.

Reality Check

Normalizing a “plan” to keep a president in office past the 22nd Amendment is a direct assault on the constitutional limit that prevents executive entrenchment—and it conditions our politics to treat binding law as optional when power demands it. On these facts, the conduct described is not itself a likely prosecutable federal crime; it is an announced political strategy, not an allegation of falsified votes, bribery, or coercion that would squarely trigger statutes like 52 U.S.C. § 20511 or 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 241, or 242. The danger is institutional: once movement leaders invite a public redefinition or bypass of a clear constitutional bar, every future limit on presidential authority becomes negotiable, and our rights become contingent on who controls the machinery of “mechanisms.”

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In an interview with The Economist released Thursday, Steve Bannon said President Donald Trump will run for president in 2028 and “get a third term.” Bannon, host of the “War Room” podcast and a former White House chief strategist, said “Trump 28” and told viewers to “get accommodated with that.”

When asked about the 22nd Amendment, which bars any person from being elected president more than twice, Bannon said there are “many different alternatives” for Trump to stay in office but did not describe them. He said “at the appropriate time” he would lay out what “the plan” is, repeating that “there’s a plan.”

Bannon also questioned whether the amendment clearly prevents Trump from running again and asked whether, if “the American people” use “the mechanisms we have” to put Trump back in office, they are “tearing up the Constitution.” The context noted Trump has publicly entertained another term, and cited an August Data for Progress poll in which 50% of Americans thought Trump would attempt to run in 2028 and 69% said he should not.

Norms Impact

Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so

A sitting president publicly sketches “methods” to evade the 22nd Amendment, signaling a willingness to treat constitutional term limits as optional.

Executive

Mar 30, 2025

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-third-term-white-house-methods-rcna198752

Summary

President Donald Trump said he is “not joking” about the possibility of seeking a third term, despite the Constitution’s 22nd Amendment prohibiting it. The presidency is being used to normalize talk of bypassing constitutional term limits and to float succession workarounds as legitimate “methods.” The practical consequence is a direct stress test of the two-term guardrail and public conditioning for an end-run around the nation’s highest democratic constraint.

Reality Check

Normalizing schemes to bypass the 22nd Amendment corrodes the core premise that no president is above the Constitution, and it teaches the public to accept power-transfer tricks that weaken our own voting rights in practice. The conduct described is not, on this record, a completed federal crime—talking about hypothetical “methods” is not itself an attempt—but any concrete plan to install an ineligible person as president would invite scrutiny under the 20th Amendment and the 12th Amendment’s eligibility rules, and could trigger litigation over ballot access and succession. Even without a chargeable statute named here, it is a profound abuse-of-office norm breach: using presidential megaphone and allied legislative pressure to test-drive constitutional evasion as a governing tactic.

Detail

In a Sunday-morning phone interview with NBC News, President Donald Trump said he would not rule out seeking a third term in the White House and stated he was “not joking.” He said “a lot of people” want him to do it, while also saying it was “far too early” and that he was focused on his current term.

When asked whether he had been presented with plans to allow a third term, Trump said, “There are methods which you could do it.” He acknowledged one scenario raised by NBC News: Vice President JD Vance could run for president and then transfer the role to Trump. Trump added that there were other methods but declined to describe them.

The 22nd Amendment prohibits a third presidential term. NBC News noted that formally removing the two-term limit would require a constitutional amendment initiated by two-thirds of Congress or two-thirds of states calling a convention, followed by ratification by three-quarters of states. Rep. Andy Ogles introduced a resolution to extend term limits, and Trump ally Steve Bannon said he believes Trump will run again in 2028.