The philosopher king of the Trump administration, both editions, is an Irish drunk who came to national prominence by way of right-wing tabloid headlines like, “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy” and “Would You Rather Your Daughter Have Feminism Or Cancer?” Bannon has been described variously as “the most dangerous political operative in America,” and the “Leni Riefenstahl [a Nazi propagandist] of the Tea Party movement”.
There’s a market for that trash. Breitbart gets 31 million unique visitors a month, or did back in 2016, according to The Guardian. (Which would have it earning at least $160,000,000 a month, or more.) If you decide to get into blogging for money, go to the Digital Dark Side, friends, because you will not make that kind of cash being a Jedi Knight, please take it from me. That said, The Force will be with you and you will stay in business somehow. PolitiZoom will be eight years old in March of 2026. Now is the winter of our discontent, believe me, but I’m hoping things will be better in March.
Back to everybody’s drunk Uncle Steve, Bannon’s been proclaiming on his podcast for weeks now that 2028 is all over and in the bag for Donald Trump. He is also now going on about “a plan.” And no, I don’t know if said “plan” includes no 2026 election whatsoever. I guess we’re going to find out.
Steve Bannon: Trump is gonna get a third term and people ought to just get accommodated with that. At the appropriate time we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ‘28pic.twitter.com/1xfic2c92a
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 23, 2025
Okay. If you listened to that you saw that it veered away from fact and law and into quasi religious idiocy in a heartbeat. Then there was some weak bantering back and forth about the “spirit” of the 22nd Amendment. I wish this interview with Steve Bannon had been with somebody like Andrew Weissmann or Marc Elias, somebody who could discuss the actual law as it sits on the books and what would be required to do something to change it. A repeal of the 22nd Amendment is what’s called for here. Remember The Untouchables and how they repealed the 18th Amendment, which started Prohibition, with the 21st Amendment, which ended it in 1933?
That’s what we’re talking about here. Any “plan” must contain that. Unless the “plan” is a flat out military coup by Russia and Putey will allow his useful idiot to believe he is in fact the King of America and live next door in his ballroom forever, until they carry him out feet first. But short of that a repeal of the 22nd Amendment, and a new Amendment, allowing a person to serve three terms of office, is the only legal way under the Constitution to do what’s being spoken of. And careful what you wish for, Donald. Has this crossed your mind?
Good lord. This is why we are we are as a country because people don't know the most basic aspects of how their government works. Congress cannot "create a rule" to allow for a 3rd term. It is in the 22nd Amendment. The only thing that could be done is to repeal it.
— HawksFan101315 (@HawksFan151310) October 23, 2025
I’m not going to trash the tweeter who said, “Create a rule,” I think the person came up with a good, albeit not an original, thought, run Obama against Trump for a third term, in the wake of the repeal of the 22nd Amendment. Imagine an 82-year-old Trump, hand bruises ever more prominent, swollen legs so bad he can hardly stand (at least in his shoe lifts) leg braces, catheters, and we won’t even talk about what will happen to the last six strands of his hair. And that person would be running against a physically fit and mentally fecund 67-year-old Barack Obama.
Maybe they should just make it a fist fight, in which case Obama can beat Trump with both hands tied behind his back and just kick Trump into the weeds with all his golf balls used in cheating.
And just by the by, Amazon is selling Obama 2028 hats. Some of them say “Make America Intelligent Again.”
They need to finish what they started, they still have a democracy to destroy.
I’m still hoping that the actuarial tables resolve this.
No Sloppy Steve Two-Shirts I will NOT accommodate myself to Trump staying on after 2028. What I will do is call you the vile, disgusting waste of human flesh you are. And suggest that you shove your fat head up Trump’s fat ass. AFTER shoving a telephone pole soaked in toxic waste and then coated with a highly flammable sealant, then smeared in shit from Trump’s fake gold toilet up your ass. Sideways. Oh, and set it ablaze yourself by pulling the pin on a White Phosphorus grenade.
For what you’ve done, the life you’ve lived and the glee you’ve taken in the lives you’ve ruined you deserve far worse but that’s what I came up with off the top of my head.