The fact remains that there is a more than serious chance that Bannon is indeed preparing the ground for a third Trump term. In this context, the procedural step should be to repeal the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, which sets the time limit for serving in the White House.
Supporters of President Donald Trump are raising the possibility that he could win a third term in the Oval Office, but legal analysts say the path to that scenario is difficult. Trump has shown no fear of challenging the Constitution. He is actively trying to end birthright citizenship, for example, even though it is protected in the 14th Amendment. The courts have blocked the effort for now.
He is rapidly trying to shut down agencies created by Congress and stop spending, or blocking, money he disagrees with even though it was, as the Constitution says, approved by Congress. His vice president, J.D. Vance, has suggested that the president could simply ignore the courts. He has recently been inclined, at least on social media, to compare himself to a king. Trump has made several comments about a possible third term, and his ally Steve Bannon this week predicted that he would run again in 2028, although Trump has not officially said he would.
BANNON PLANS
“I am convinced that President Donald Trump will run again in the 2028 election, and I am even more convinced that he will win overwhelmingly then. A man like him comes along every hundred years or so, if we are lucky, we should allow him to finish his visionary work,” said Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist from the era of Trump’s first term, during a guest appearance with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation.
For context, this is the same Steve Bannon who is behind the strategy of “bombing the media space” with the aim of exhausting not only the fifth estate, but also their customers and political opponents. This is precisely why any of his bombastic and shocking statements should be viewed with suspicion, because it is more than likely that he has strategically placed a “landmine” on the media in the hope that, while they repair the damage he has caused, they will have to neglect the real and serious stories of the day. Like the fact that Donald Trump is currently preparing to sign an executive order to close the Department of Education.
SCENARIO
As likely as that scenario is – for the sake of argument, let’s give it a 60 percent chance – there’s also a more than realistic chance – by this logic, about 40 percent – that Bannon will also lay out his serious strategic plans here and there: like testing the nation on ideas that are, to put it mildly, controversial and unconventional and encouraging to journalists.
The more violent the reaction, the more likely it is that people will soon get bored with the whole story. And then it is fertile ground for further micro-steps in that direction. Here lies the brilliance of the “bombardment of media space” strategy, and in this kitchen other strange ideas of the new administration were prepared, such as taking over Gaza to create a world riviera there, annexing Greenland and Canada as the 51st state of the US.
DIFFICULT TERRAIN
The fact remains that there is a more than serious chance that Bannon is indeed preparing the ground for a third Trump term. In this context, the procedural step would be to repeal the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, which sets the time limit for serving in the White House. Repealing or amending the 22nd Amendment would require a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate, as well as ratification by three-quarters of the states.
No amendment has been ratified since the 1990s, and it was first proposed in the 1700s. It has been since the 1960s that the 26th Amendment was ratified during the Vietnam era when there was an active draft. This amendment guarantees the right to vote to 18-year-olds. The only president to serve more than two terms was Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 22nd Amendment was ratified in 1951, in the years after Roosevelt’s death in office.
