Summary
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.
In case anyone is still unsure, he is not willingly leaving in 2028. Everything that’s happening indicates he is setting up a path for him to remain. One of two things are going to happen in our future.
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We will need to march on DC in INSANE numbers and force him to leave with the threat of lethal force.
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We will have to use lethal force to make him leave.
Only other possibility is he dies of natural causes before then. But then we get Vance and we’ll probably have to do the same thing. This isn’t just Trump. The entire GOP apparatus is a fascist movement. The only reason he didn’t do it last time is because he hadn’t set up the foundation for him to remain by doing things like, I don’t know, instructing the FBI to arrest federal judges who oppose him, which is a line we just crossed today.
Fascism is here. Arm yourselves. Help others arm themselves. Train. Help others train.
He doesn’t care about that. Because he’s going to jail after regardless. So whilst he may be president, he’s fucked suffer way
But then we get Vance
If Trump dies in 2026 then there are 10 constitutionally valid years of Vance ruling.
Do you think the Constitution will stay unaltered until 2036?
Yes, all the ways to alter the constitution are fundamentally broken.
Altered or not, it’s not like the GOP gives a shit about a piece of paper.
We’ll see. But I’ll be marching at your side if it comes down to it.
Because of this comment, I think I’m going to start saving a little money for a quick trip to DC. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I think I want to be there when it does.
So it’s gonna be January 6th all over again?
I’m not trying to be a pessimist, but this is the same kind of logic J6ers used in 2021. They believed that the election was stolen and tried to invade the capitol as a result.
I’d like to be proven wrong here, but if a massive crowd of armed people show up to the capitol doors if trump is somehow reelected in 2028, you’d be hard pressed to convince most normal people that it’s any different than J6.
What showed up on Jan 6 were a few thousand redneck losers, many of whom already had criminal convictions. What I’m talking about is something that will need to be larger than the Civil Rights march on DC in '63. Larger than the 2020 protests. What showed up on Jan 6 were dipshits who believed an election was stolen without a shred of evidence. If this fuck tries remaining after 2 terms there’s no guesswork involved. No BELIEF that something is wrong. You’re going to see something unlike anything this country has seen before that unites all liberals, all independents, a lot of people who never identified as anything before, and probably even a lot of conservatives who still have some sort of red line.
A president only getting 2 terms is one of those basic, foundational rules that is easy to understand. There’s lots of grey area in what Trump and his fascist enablers are doing, especially to stupid people. But even stupid people get the 2 term rule and can grasp why it matters.
But even stupid people get the 2 term rule and can grasp why it matters.
I used to think that. Then Trump got elected again.
People are legitimately stupid and I have no patience for it anymore. I’m losing my mind and I don’t know how to protect my family when shit hits the fan.
I’m scared, man. It’s giving me nightmares.
The Romans stormed Rome more than a few times. Sometimes they succeeded.
I’m not trying to be a pessimist, but this is the same kind of logic J6ers used in 2021. They believed that the election was stolen and tried to invade the capitol as a result.
And if they had been right, it would have been justified. The problem is that they had zero evidence of a stolen election. Trump went to court over 60 times to get the election overturned, and never once produced a shred of evidence that the election was stolen from him, even when it was in front of judges he personally appointed. The January 6th rioters were basing their actions on nothing more than right-wing propaganda.
In contrast, Trump is openly signaling that he is going to ignore the Constitution (or unilaterally alter it) and run for a third term. A January 6th style riot would be justified in this case (if all legal routes fail), because if he is allowed to get away with this, what’s stopping him from just handing his fourth presidency to Donald Jr, then Barron, and so on?
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Let me guess … a 3rd term cannot end after four years but is a term for life …
I wish soft launching a dictatorship was insane. He has soft launched all the atrocities before this. Always starts as a joke or suggestion… Until it’s not. Now here we are. This soft launch will takes all the outrage of this move and diffuse it through time and the fire hose of all the other terrible things to happen before the the next presidental election… Assuming we will have one at all.
If this joke of a nation had any merit at all, these coy suggestions would be disqualifying and his flabby, corrupt ass would be on the sidewalk or in jail tomorrow. Unfortunately, Americans are lazy, entitled, stupid, and collectively rich enough to pretend that there won’t be consequences to our shortsightedness.
The facts already disqualifying him is why he’s disqualified. Good to see Americans aren’t alone as the stupid ones
Americans don’t have a democratic process to do anything about it.
Americans don’t have a democratic process to do anything about it.
Hmmm, what would other countries do if they didn’t have a democratic process to do anything about it? Maybe the French have some advice…
Yup. If we did, trump could’ve never had a chance at being president
I can’t tell for sure if this is a supporting comment, or if it’s sarcastically pointing out that Trump was elected.
On the off chance that it is sarcasm, what I meant was that the people have no democratic process to remove elected officials from power.
I’m saying that if we had an actual democracy, 35% support from idiots doesn’t get you into office. It gets a little attention that fades and is almost forgotten a couple years later. You know, a sane world – in which we do not live.
They had. Couple of months ago.
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This is an excellent opportunity for someone to start selling “Obama 2028” hats.
Let’s be honest, Obama is at least partially responsible for the USA being in the situation it is now. We don’t need Obama again, we need an actual left candidate that will actually fight for leftist agenda items, like Medicare for all, and not double down on W Bush policies and kill thousands of people with drones.
Obama ran on a left leaning agenda with major grassroots support, then dismantled that organization and governed as a center right Democrat.
If we manage to emerge from this with MAGA destroyed, we will have a rare opportunity to rebuild this nation, and the LAST thing we should do is go back to the same old-same old, with weak, spineless, Democratic weenies like Obama, Schumer, and their weasely ilk.
We need to have bold, courageous Democratic elected representatives who will hold the line when the Nazis try to rise again, and fight them with everything we have. Not like the last time, when they bent over at every opportunity.
The point is that there’s NOTHING that would infuriate Trump more - and any argument for how Trump can run for a third term will also then apply to Obama.
Any US opinion of what’s “left” and “right” is unparseable for us who live in Europe anyways.
uh, he could lose to AOC and then he’s losing to a black woman that he already hates?
You’re underestimating how easy it is to infuriate Trump, and overestimating how worthwhile it is. I’d much sooner have that fat fuck drown in his own blood than want to get a rise out of him. Instead of letting in a shitty moderate who ultimately enabled Donald Trump for the lulz, I’d prefer we get someone who will re-establish the rule of law and imprison Trump and all of his cronies.
If you sink to their level, they will beat you with experience. You think you can out-troll the nihilistic right. You can’t. Leftism is based on the idea of actually giving af.
Or Bill Clinton 2028 hats. They’re the same age, after all and the jokes write themselves.
Bill Clinton - At least he was able to balance the budget.
Bill Clinton - He’ll just fuck the interns instead of the rest of us.
Bill Clinton sucks. His policies directly lead us to where we are today and what he did to Lewinsky was sexual harassment.
I know you’re joking but I don’t find him to be very funny.
Yeah, he really shit the bed when he repealed Glass-Steagall and opened the door for the corporatist hellscape we currently live in.
Also, there’s a good bit of evidence that dude actually raped women. Clinton was my hero when I was a baby lib, I read his book and everything. I don’t think history will treat his (or his wife’s) memory kindly.
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That would normalize what they are doing.
I don’t get the “rigged 2020 election” argument.
Did he forgot about his first mandate? If he won in 2020/21 it would still make 2 mandates and he theoretically would not been able to go for 2024/25.
OFC it is just a shit excuse to please his crowd, but math are math, one + one still equals two, 2020 election or not.
$50.00 for a fucking Made in China hat.
With tariffs, $120
Hats made in china cost about $4 before tarriffs
i just assumed the corruption is so out in the open already that he will add an exemption for trump merch
Remove Trump now!
Performative acts like that shirt are the proof-of-faith that the republiQans require. It’s very tied up with Evangelical Christianity in an awful way.
He got into power rigging the election with Elon, Russia, and ballotproof. He will magically get enough seats in the midterm to overturn the 22nd and be king til he dies if successful.
Republicans would have to win two thirds of state legislatures with MAGA loyalists to even bring a vote to overturn the 22nd. There is no way that happens legally, and Republicans know it. If they plan on a third Trump term, my bet is they will either be ignoring the 22nd altogether, or enacting emergency powers to suspend the entire Constitution indefinitely.
Hey, if the coup fails, these hats also work for Eric…
Welp. It was a good run, America.
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.
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.
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.
Almost three hundreds years of progress undone by a man that cosplays a billionaire Cheeto.
Truly remarkable.
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.
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.
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.
$50 hat bro is he fr 💀
it’s ment for americans. more than soft people
