The podcast host spoke with The Economist in a wide-ranging interview released Thursday.

When asked directly about the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits any U.S. citizen from serving more than two terms as president, [Steve] Bannon pointed to how there are “many different alternatives” for Trump to stay in office, but did not provide specifics.

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 hours ago

    Tell me you don’t understand how election/inauguration works without actually explicitly saying it…

  • switcheroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    5 hours ago

    Addled mushbrain probably won’t be able to form actual sentences by that time. Not that he could do that before.

    Education is important. And not doing drugs. And not being a worthless narcissist nepo who has never worked an honest day in his pathetic life. And not being stupid. And not being a thief, a pedo, and a rapist…

  • Zink@programming.dev
    3·
    4 hours ago

    They have a plan?

    Holy shit you guys, these ghouls aren’t lizard people! They are god damned cylons!

  • skibidi@lemmy.world
    24·
    6 hours ago

    So the constitution doesn’t actually prohibit anyone from serving more than 2 terms as president, it prohibits someone being elected to the office of president more than twice (or once if they assumed office for more than 2 years of someone else’s term.

    In 2029 Trump could be elected as speaker of the house and then Vance and Dr. Evil resign as POTUS and VP and bam, Trump round 3.

    Trump could also be directly elected to the Vice Presidency, though the legal ground there is shakier given the 12th amendment.

    Ultimately, SCOTUS would need to weigh in because there is enough ambiguity in the constitution to allow for just the scenarios above.

    Good thing SCOTUS is chock full of no-nonsense nonpartisan jurists of the highest integrity.

    • elrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      5 hours ago

      The 12th Amendment provides that “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President.” As such, anyone barred by the 22nd Amendment from being elected president is also ineligible to serve as vice president, and so a twice-elected president cannot return to power through vice-presidential succession.

      If a person is constitutionally “ineligible to the office of President,” they are also skipped over in the presidential line of succession under the Presidential Succession Act (3 U.S.C. §19), which prohibits anyone ineligible to serve as president from assuming the office.

      The ghouls in power currently don’t understand or don’t care, and by the time this is tested, it will likely be rubber stamped by the supreme court. But, there’s still value in understanding ahead of time that no, that is not a constitutionally valid approach.

      • skibidi@lemmy.world
        31·
        4 hours ago

        Not quite… the constitutional requirements to be president are simple: Natural born citizen, 35+ years old, and US residency for at least 14 years.

        It is an open legal question whether and how the 12th and 22nd interact to determine eligibility. The intent seems clear, but the language of the 22nd very plainly concerns only election to the office, not assumption of it.

        • elrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Calling it “an open legal question” implies meaningful doubt, but in reality, the text, intent, succession laws, and scholarly consensus have already answered this decisively. The only way this alternate interpretation prevails is a corrupt supreme court. Oh…wait. 🤣

      • Zink@programming.dev
        1·
        4 hours ago

        the Presidential Succession Act (3 U.S.C. §19), which prohibits anyone ineligible to serve as president from assuming the office

        “No it doesn’t. Your statement is now literally incorrect.”

        • USA SC
  • merdaverse@lemmy.zip
    8·
    6 hours ago

    He went on to call Trump a “vehicle of divine providence.”

    How to make fascism even worse: mix it with a religious cult

  • DBT@lemmy.world
    53·
    12 hours ago

    He 100% doesn’t plan on leaving when his term is up. This stupid ass Epstein Ballroom that he’s having built (amongst other things) is proof of that.

  • BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
    25·
    12 hours ago

    So? If the Founders COULD have Predicted Trump they WOULDNT have Written that Amendment!

    -School Shooting Supporters!