As if there were not enough concerns about challenges what Donald Trump is raising to the Constitution of the United States In his second presidency, both the Republican and his allies are Raising the conversation about a potential third mandateexpressly prohibited by the Amendment 22, ratified in 1951. He did it on Thursday in a jocular -appearance tone but with provocative content himself Trumpand he did it with an absolutely serious proposal, his ultra -right advisor, Steve Bannonat the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
“Should I introduce myself again? Tell me, ”the President snapped at the White House in an act to celebrate the month of black history. “There they have their controversy,” he laughed, while attendees began to shout “Four more years!” and Trump predicted that the moment (not the first time he raises the possibility but the first one that does it publicly in his second presidency) would arrive that same night on television.
Not far from there, in the convention center in National Harbor (Maryland) that hosts CPAC, Bannon launched a few hours later the same idea (before causing another scandal when making a Nazi greeting). “The future of Maga (the acronym in English of the Macho Eeuu Movement again) is Donald Trump. We want Trump in 2028. That is what they can’t stand. A man like Trump only appears once or twice in the history of a country No? We want Trump! ”He snapped.
The conversation had started shortly before. While Bannon made a live broadcast of his ‘War Room’ podcast, an assistant made a comment about Trump 2028 and the strategist took the glove. “What do we do to have Trump 2028? We may have to work the Constitution although I believe that There is a way to sneak out there, But you never know, ”he said.
The text of the amendment 22, approved after Franklin Delano Roosevelt was chosen for a fourth term in 1944 (died in 1945), says: “No person can be elected to the position of president more than twice. ”
High voltage
The moment in which these statements arrive makes them see more concern that on previous occasions in which Trump has raised, a president who He tried not to abandon power after losing the 2020 elections. This same week, after announcing that he will use the federal power to cancel the urban toll that had been made in force in New York, the Republican wrote a message of social networks that culminated with the phrase: “Long life to the king!” The official White House account shared an image of a false magazine cover in which Trump appeared with a crown.
Days before the president had generated controversy by paraphrasing Napoleon and proclaiming in networks: “Who saves his country does not violate any law,” A message that also hung the White House account.
Since his return to the White House, in addition, Trump has been tensioning the constitutional limits, making a expansive interpretation of the Executive Power and signing decrees and measures that challenge or exceed those limits, as with the executive order with which it intends to eliminate the right of citizenship by birth in the constitutionally recognized country.
Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican Member of the ultra -rightist Freedom Caucus, presented on January 23 at Congress a resolution two -page for amend the constitution and make this say that “no person can be chosen for the presidency more than thricenor nor choose for an additional mandate after being chosen twice consecutive ”, a clarification that would prevent Bill Clinton, George Bush and Barack Obama.
Ogles’s proposal has no options to get ahead, as a constitutional amendment requires the support of Two thirds of the cameras and subsequent ratification of at least 38 of the 50 states. But he has already won the support of a group of Republicans who have created the Third mandate project, PRestored at a press conference on CPAC, aimed at grabbing support for the idea.
Everything also makes the proposal remain in the conversation. And it is something that the man who started the conversation with Bannon also suggested. “One has to keep repeating it again and again. One has to navigate them (democrats) until they get used to” “I like it. That is a ‘PSYOP’, ”the strategist replied using the military term for psychological operations aimed at influencing the behavior of individuals, groups or governments.
