# Trump won't rule out 3rd term **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [March 31, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371 "2025-03-31T01:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/361 "2025-08-02T21:25:57Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > But the Senators went to their states in the immediate aftermath of 1/6 and what they heard from their base was along the lines of “you’re toast if you touch Trump!” So cowering it was. Quite true. But there may be less support for Trump in 2028 (assuming the world and Donald are still here, then). There will have been years of poverty and lack of health care resulting from the Trump/Project2025 policies, to name but two factors. If Trump’s popularity dropped enough to awaken the self-preservation instincts of Congress and/or the Cabinet, we might see a concerted effort to eject Donald from the seat of power. Which by then will probably be made of solid gold, given Donald’s plans for the White House (including bathroom renovations). In any case it’s pretty clear that he has no intention of leaving voluntarily. You don’t spend $200 million on a ballroom “for the people;” you spend it for your Coronation Ceremony and Kissing of the Ring Ceremonies and those sorts of events, to be scheduled on a regular basis for the next however-many-years you hope to live. [https://www.npr.org/2025/07/31/nx-s1-5487590/trump-ballroom-white-house](https://www.npr.org/2025/07/31/nx-s1-5487590/trump-ballroom-white-house) ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/362 "2025-08-03T08:25:59Z")
What do the house and the senate even DO anymore? Seems to me El President Taco seems to decide pretty much everything by executive decision. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/363 "2025-08-03T10:16:13Z")
Frankly, at this point, I’m going to be very disappointed if Trump **doesn’t** try a 3rd term run. I would be deprived of seeing him get the smackdown from the courts. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/364 "2025-08-03T15:49:42Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I would be deprived of seeing him get the smackdown from the courts. Except He wouldn’t. SCOTUS is almost entirely in His pocket, and he’s trying to stack the Federal courts. He has been systematically dismantling the United States with his henchmen. I’m not sure we will have mid-term elections, let alone 2028 elections. Assuming there _are_ elections and He is voted out, why would he leave? ‘Because He was voted out. He _has to_ leave!’ ‘But what if He doesn’t?’ People say we have to stop Trump, or else He’ll become a dictator. Guess what? He’s already a dictator. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/365 "2025-08-03T15:54:06Z")
I am so very sick and tired of hearing “I hope he tries to do it, because he will finally get the smackdown he deserves!”, because reality and fantasy seldom line up to anyone’s satisfaction. If you give this bastard enough rope you might get a swing, a hammock, a fence…._anything_ but a noose. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/366 "2025-08-03T23:14:05Z")
I’m in the same boat. Any hope I had of Trump ever getting the smackdown he deserves ended with the last election. Sauron won. The sad fact of life is sometimes the bad guy wins. If Republicans were interested in putting the smackdown to Trump they had plenty of opportunities to do so. They chose not to. Trump famously told us he could shoot someone in broad daylight and wouldn’t lose any supporters. I think he could announce he loved visiting Epstein’s island and he wouldn’t lose any followers. ---
**Author:** ![JoePockets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@JoePockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoePockets)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/367 "2025-08-03T23:22:29Z")
When the smoke clears and the damage is done in 2027-8 Donald will be a retired and still needing Todd Blanche! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/368 "2025-08-06T14:46:55Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ‘But what if He doesn’t?’ This for sure. But I would love to see him carted off in handcuffs. But who will do it? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/369 "2025-08-06T15:39:07Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I think he could announce he loved visiting Epstein’s island and he wouldn’t lose any followers. Absolutely. All they will be upset about is why doesn’t he say what Democrats or Hollywood Liberals did he see while there. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/370 "2025-10-22T20:26:46Z")
Resurrecting this thread. Trump is demolishing the East Wing of the White House in order to put in a ballroom to his specifications. These are the actions of an autocrat, not someone expecting to be no longer in the White House in January, 2029. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/371 "2025-10-23T02:21:26Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Trump is demolishing the East Wing of the White House in order to put in a ballroom to his specifications. These are the actions of an autocrat, not someone expecting to be no longer in the White House in January, 2029. This is Trump’s way of leaving a permanent mark on the White House. As he has demonstrated, you can move portraits of past presidents around, add tacky gold accents everywhere, and even dig up the Rose Garden, but all of those are easily reversible by presidents in the future. You couldn’t just remove his monstrosity of a ballroom or put the East Wing back. Trump’s leaving a turd in the punchbowl future generations won’t be able to ignore. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/372 "2025-10-23T02:28:44Z")
He isn’t leaving jack shit. He is keeping it and making it his. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/373 "2025-10-23T03:59:05Z")
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the contractors had to stop work because of an ICE raid? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/374 "2025-10-23T04:10:40Z")
It would be hilarious if ICE agents spit on each other in public…and just as likely. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/375 "2025-10-23T04:14:58Z")
Don’t get me wrong, I hate Trump as much as anyone else, but I don’t think the big ballroom is a bad idea. The White House has lacked a huge place to hold formal state dinners (some state dinners had to be held in tents on the lawn), the room can be used for huge press conferences or all kinds of other non-dancing activities, etc. If anything, it would be the best justice for Trump to go to all this trouble to build a ballroom, have it not be completed until the end of 2028, and he doesn’t get to use it before it’s time for him to leave office. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/376 "2025-10-23T14:47:22Z")
Assuming he plans on leaving office. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/377 "2025-10-23T15:42:10Z")
I don’t know if this is old news since the interview was months ago, but in an interview with Bill Mahre, Scott Bannon hinted that the plan is to have Trump become President the afternoon of 20 January 2029 meaning run as VP and have the President resign within a few hours. My question is what incentive is there for someone to resign the presidency for the benefit of Mr. Trump? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/378 "2025-10-23T15:47:00Z")
I’m guessing Bill Mahre is meant to be Bill _Maher_ but I’ve never heard of Scott Bannon. Googling that name is no help. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/379 "2025-10-23T15:57:48Z")
Dammit Cad! **Steve** Bannon ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/380 "2025-10-23T16:00:23Z")
While my wife and I were out walking today near our hotel to get some Aleve (flying in economy sucks, have I ever mentioned that?), she noticed a “Trump 2028” sticker on a signpost. Make of that what you will. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371.md?page=20)