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The Trump Store released $50 “Trump 2028” hats Thursday, sparking backlash online as Trump has repeatedly hinted at running for a third term.

“I have had more people ask me to have a third term,” Trump said on March 31, claiming the 2020 election was “totally rigged.”

Steve Bannon said he’s exploring “five or six different alternatives” to enable a third run.

Critics on social media called it “insane” and a sign of “fascist” ambitions. Though barred by the 22nd Amendment, Trump could run again if it were overturned by Congress and the states. However, it would require a two-thirds vote of Congress and three-fourths vote of the states.

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      22 hours ago

      Oh, no, we aren’t even close to finished. By the time we are done, whatever is left of the Republican party will be very sorry they started all this nonsense.

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        21 hours ago

        Wish I shared your enthusiasm, but Americans have sleepwalked through everything so far. I don’t see that changing before it’s much too late. Only thing that saved Europe was the good guys swooping in. That ain’t happening in this scenario. We have to save ourselves and I don’t see it happening.

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          19 hours ago

          A rogue president ordering the military to invade a friendly allied neighbor has never happened. Its safe to say that would be the end of trying to recover our nation through legal Constitutional methods (which is the stage we are in right now). It would instantly cause a Civil War, and would vastly reduce the military forces, as MANY military members would refuse to comply. We have many very experienced high level military leaders who would be of great use to the Canadian army, and many of our trained soldiers will support them.

          The MAGA military leaders are loyalists first, and competency comes far down the list. It is likely that HitlerPig will be calling the shots, just the way Hitler did in WWII, and that was a major reason for the German’s downfall. HitlerPig is even stupider than Hitler was.

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      23 hours ago

      Almost three hundreds years of progress undone by a man that cosplays a billionaire Cheeto.

      Truly remarkable.

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        21 hours ago

        Longest lasting representative democracy in history, ended by a felon rapist, while a solid chunk of the country cheered.

        Truly a weak, pathetic, stupid, shameful country.

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          20 hours ago

          Representative for who? Natives, black people, queers, anyone remotely to the left wouldn’t say the US has been exactly democratic during it’s time. Trump and the GOP are just the current incarnation of the settlers that massacred the indigenous people and the racists who enforced slavery and later Jim Crow and segregation. They have been a part of America since it’s founding.

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            18 hours ago

            I think if more Americans were honest about how shitty their country has always been, maybe they could understand how Trump is merely a symptom of a deeper rot.