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President Donald Trump on Friday again suggested he should be permitted to illegally serve a third term as president based on his baseless claim that the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was “stolen” from him.

Trump was just a few minutes into remarks at a campaign-style rally in Corpus Christi, Texas when he began rattling off a list of purported accomplishments from the first year of his second term in the White House.

“I've been here one year. Think of it, one year, little bit more than one year. Now, time flies. Time flies,” he said.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Trump needs to float face down in the Potomac river.

America floats "one more bullet" as Trump shits his diaper

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

“Floats”?

No.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I feel sad for this shoe:

It wants to run again!

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

Maybe a little glue could help?

Well it will fix the shoe, I don't know about anything else.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca -2 points 5 days ago

On the bright side, when he's still president in 2029, people will take this situation more seriously. I'm sick of people thinking this will automatically be over in 2029

[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 144 points 1 week ago (6 children)

the mere suggestion should be considered treason

[–] Steve@startrek.website 23 points 6 days ago

I do consider it treason, because it is.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Dude is turning to pudding on camera. I can only hope he tries to run again in 2028

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 51 points 1 week ago

If I suggested it, it wouldn't be treason. For a standing president to say it, repeatedly, having assured that the SOTUS would clear him of any wrong doing in advance, it absolutely IS treason. And it was treason in 2020.

[–] YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Imagine if Obama had floated that idea.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Obama has a chance to do the funniest thing.

[–] YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip 6 points 6 days ago

Dude. Trump would be apoplectic!

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't even imagine. MAGA was already losing their minds in 2016 with wild predictions that Obama would not leave office, despite there being no indication of it whatsoever.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Back in the 90s, teachers would have to stop class to change the lightbulbs in their projectors.

I wonder when these projectors will burn out.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Add this to the list. Since he's rich, white, and a hateful child fucking monster, white conservatives will protect him to the end.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 54 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This decrepit pedophile rapist bag of shit isn't going to live through this term. Very old and feeble; his prognosis doesn't look good, fortunately. We can only hope nature takes it's course faster.

[–] YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip 9 points 6 days ago

Part of me wants to see him live long enough to see justice, and part of me is Operation Hamberder.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

This fucker will live to be 100 or more because of course he will

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I hope Nature will hit pretty hard on that sack of shit

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Kissinger lived to be nearly 100. This fucker is probably perserved from all the fast food he eats and will live beyond that.

At this point I want to out live him and everyone in this administration out of pure spite

[–] inari@piefed.zip 7 points 1 week ago

With the bad luck we've been having, I'm not counting on it

[–] PNW_Doug@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

lol. Float it all you want, little Donny Two-Scoops. Mother Nature clearly has other plans for you. That dementia ain't gonna get any better.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thiel is going to keep Trump going with his blood boys.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I swear 2026 is the year stereotypes are true-ish.

Nikki Minaj might as well be a sambo.

Gay men like Sam Altman and Peter Thiel and Nick Fuentes (the in the closet fuck) want to ruin everything.

Israel has demonstrated that Jews do run the world.

What a stupid year. 🙄

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even if you were to concede the election was stolen from him (which of course it was not) it does not exempt him from the 22nd amendment. Two terms, that’s it. Period.

In fact, a plain text reading of the amendment would suggest that– if he was “rightfully elected” in 2020 as he claims– he would not have been eligible to serve the term he’s currently in.

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

You violate enough constitutional provisions and one more doesn't seem like such a big deal

I live in the US. WTF are the people thinking that this can float? WHAT? I am sitting in stunned disbelief as the nation does things....

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was looking for the site, "Is Trump dead yet?" and the duckduckgo ai said this:

No, Donald Trump is not dead. He was recently seen golfing and is reported to be in good health.

So, I keep checking every day and it's the same answer every fucking day, lol.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I always turn my phone off while I'm at movies. When I turn my phone back on, I always Google Trump's name to see if he died yet. This was hiw I first heard of him winning the stupid FIFA peace prize

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

reported to be in good health

I'm looking forward to the Occluded Donald diehards insisting he's not dead, just in hiding, after he does kick it

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[–] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

War crimes tribunal awaits, child abuse trials await - don't ask me why they're waiting - the answer is even more disgusting each time it's broached. This tRumpSsReich nazi shitler is trying to pass away in office instead of a jail cell - that isn't justice.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago
[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 5 points 1 week ago