Trump 3rd Term? Constitutional Amendment Proposed

The White Home is seen in Washington D.C., on January 22, 2025. | Supply: Anadolu / Getty

Donald Trump is, as soon as once more, president of america, and Republicans are losing no time proving to everybody else that they’re each bit the hazard to American progress in addition to the Structure they fake to like a lot.

Actually, just some days into Trump’s new administration, a GOP legislator is already proposing a constitutional modification to permit Trump to serve a 3rd time period in workplace. (Sure, you learn that proper. No, you most likely ought to get to the toilet if it’s good to throw up.)

Meet Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.).

On Thursday, the Home Republican launched a decision to amend the U.S. Structure to permit Trump and another future president to be elected to a 3rd time period. He’s not even hiding the truth that he has solely launched this measure as a result of he thinks Trump is the second coming of White Nationalist Jesus, not as a result of the modification can be good for the workplace of president.

In accordance with CNBC, Ogles proposed extending the present most of two elected phrases, declaring that Trump “has confirmed himself to be the one determine in fashionable historical past able to reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he should be given the time needed to perform that purpose.”

Rattling, dude — strive dry-humping your messiah somewhat more durable, why don’t you?

Honestly, Trump has by no means “confirmed” something. He by no means even introduced proof to again his voter fraud propaganda — his first try at remaining in energy after his time was up — and now he has pardoned all the police-attacking criminals who tried to upend democracy by brute drive on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, impressed by Trump’s large lie.

When Ogles says Trump has confirmed he’s “able to reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness,” all he means is that Trump is giving MAGA conservatives the whole lot they need: mass deportations, the decriminalization of white terrorists, the dismantling of DEI and the validation of white conservatives large and delusional persecution advanced.

If any Democrat had been to suggest an modification to offer former President Barack Obama a 3rd time period simply because he signed insurance policies that aligned with their ideology, Republicans would name it outright tyranny and definitely un-American and unconstitutional.

And that’s not simply pure hypothesis both. Actually, Ogle particularly tailor-made his proposal to exclude any presently residing president in addition to Trump, who, by the way in which, can be 82 by the point his second time period is over. Clearly, Ogle didn’t need his little ploy to increase Trump’s presidency to inadvertently put Obama, who’s 15 years youthful than Trump, again within the White Home in 2029.

From CNBC:

Ogles’ decision is tailor-made particularly to allow Trump to serve a 3rd time period, however to not permit three out of the 4 residing former presidents to serve third phrases.

″No particular person shall be elected to the workplace of the President greater than 3 times, nor be elected to any further time period after being elected to 2 consecutive phrases,” the modification states.

Former Presidents Invoice Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all served two consecutive phrases, and thus can be barred from being elected to a 3rd time period.

However not Trump, who’s the primary president since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to be elected to a second, non-consecutive time period.

“It’s crucial that we offer President Trump with each useful resource essential to appropriate the disastrous course set by the Biden administration,” Ogles stated in an announcement.

“He’s devoted to restoring the republic and saving our nation, and we, as legislators and as states, should do the whole lot in our energy to help him,” stated Ogles, a hard-line conservative who’s serving his second time period within the Home.

“I’m proposing an modification to the Structure to revise the constraints imposed by the twenty second Modification on presidential phrases,” he added.

Once more, Ogle isn’t even making an argument for why two-term limits for the presidency, which have been in place for practically 75 years, aren’t enough for the workplace anymore, and why it needs to be completely modified to 3. He’s basically solely arguing to his fellow Republicans: We’ve acquired our president again, now let’s hold him so long as we will.

“For a decision to amend the Structure to be despatched to the Archivist of america, it should obtain a two-thirds majority vote in each the Home of Representatives and the Senate. If that’s accomplished, three-fourths of the states — 38 — should ratify the modification for it to change into a part of the Structure,” CNBC famous. So, Ogle’s proposed modification surviving Congress is a longshot, however, then once more, there was a time when the concept a 34-time felon who impressed a home terrorist assault could possibly be elected president for a second time can be thought-about the work of absurd fiction.

And but, right here we’re.