Trump wants to stay in power until he dies, which may happen, but not exactly on his terms. His idea of staying in power is running again in 2028 and then again in 2032, we presume, and so on and so forth. He not only floated his usual rhetorical balloon today but he predicted “a constitutional movement” to make it happen. Wrong-o.
Trump: “I could have the most unbelievable four years, and I guess I'm not allowed to run. I'm not sure. Is there a little something out there that I'm not allowed to run? But let's assume I was allowed to run. There's gonna be a constitutional movement." pic.twitter.com/535RbbDmcR
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 16, 2026
This is one time that Trump is begging to be put in a box canyon of his own making. First of all, nobody is going to seriously put together a “constitutional movement” so this old bag of wheezing wind can run again but even if they did and it was successful — FINE! We’ll bring out our superhero, which is one Barack Obama.
We are left to speculate what Trump was *thinking* about in his last sentence, something bad happening during the last week of his spectacular four year run. What’s that, a veiled threat to nuke Canada?
Trump is not playing with a full deck and that condition is only going to worsen. Take note of all his little threats and his boasts about his “cognitive physicals.” As Obama predicted, the sequel is much worse than the original and the last thing this country needs is Trump 3.0 and an extended Trump franchise. But expect him to threaten it, because it’s a distraction from Epstein, among other things. And he’s fishing for the right Republican to come along and make the “movement” happen.
That “… old bag of wheezing wind …” is the corrupt mob head of a myopic reactionary kakistocracy. He and his equally incompetent mob, under no circumstances should not even be allowed to entertain the idea, let alone doing it, to erode established structures, so as to remain in power.
The big noise now is that we’re all going to need passports. I haven’t had an active passport in probably 40 years. I just don’t do international travel at this point in my life, but did in younger years. I probably should get a passport and go see friends in Canada, New Zealand, Australia. Point being, a lot of Americans don’t have passports. And a lot of people, women in particular, have a different name on their ID than on their birth certificates.
We’ve had bad presidents before but never one that was trying to overturn democracy like this clown.
The only movement he’s capable of is a bowel one.
I wonder to what extent Trump believes the GOP can pull off a constitutional amendment for him? How much is belief and how much is fantasy?
Exactly. The one he’s going to have in his Depends. Stench and all!
Depends on how you define “control”
I don’t want to see this happen of course. But I loathe the fact that you labeled Obama as everyone’s superhero, as though that would make this constitutional change OK.
Exposing your bias and offering up a candidate who did a lot of Trumpian things of his own… Top notch work politizoom.
“did a lot of Trumpian things of his own” Such as? And, if so, in what comparable quantities?
I’m dying to hear as well.
I was offering up the obvious rejoinder to Trump’s “threat” of running for a third term, which is basically what it is, is a threat.
And I’m all ears if you can tell me anything Obama did which is even remotely Trumpian. Those were the good ole days, how I miss the minutae of political discourse as opposed to screaming meltdowns in Congress by the attorney general.
I’m sensing a “movement.” Not the kind he has in mind, but metaphorically perfect for a country that needs to excrete a poison from its body politic.