Can Trump serve a third term as US president?
Can Trump serve a third term as US president?
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Can Trump serve a third term as US president?
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Can Trump make a boot so big even the media can’t lick it?
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If Donald Trump remains President beyond Jan 2029, he won't need to be elected to do it.
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He will certainly try to and hopefully not succeed.
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Nope
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What’s stopping Trump from having a puppet run for President and he as Vice President? The puppet could then step down after Inauguration Day.
The argument I’ve heard being, the Vice President isn’t elected to the office of the President.
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Does the 12th Amendment negate that argument? The last sentence in the amendment seems to suggest so.
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Now this is a legitimate argument discussion. How is the law interpreted. I'm not a constitutional scholar, so I have no idea. But this is a much better topic of discussion than what OP posted.
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Not legally, no.
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Why the downvotes?
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Because there's no reason to write a headline that implies this is an open question. The answer is no, and implying it could be anything but no is irresponsible. Someone reading a headline alone should be told that so if that's all they read they don't think the answer is more complicated than that.
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Dumb article and OP is dumb for sharing it. This shouldn't even be a discussion or debate.
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No.
It’s not complicated. Anyone that tries to inject nuance into this simple question is not to be taken seriously.
Given that they are serious, though, and the subject, maybe they should be taken deadly seriously.
He himself has said he could run as Vance’s VP, and then Vance could resign. He said it like it was a clever hack he’d figured out. But the text of the amendment specifically forbids it. You can’t be VP if you aren’t eligible to be President, and if you’ve been elected twice, you aren’t eligible to be President.
I suppose he could say he hasn’t been elected twice because Elon hacked the voting machines in swing states in 2024, but at that point why bother?