{"id":39889,"date":"2025-02-28T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T20:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=39889"},"modified":"2025-02-28T12:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T20:30:32","slug":"trumps-threat-of-third-term-no-laughing-matter-says-democracy-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/trumps-threat-of-third-term-no-laughing-matter-says-democracy-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Threat of Third Term No Laughing Matter, Says Democracy Watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House on February 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s a test to see how far he can go in his quest for unchecked power,” said Stand Up America executive director Christina Harvey.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

ELOISE GOLDSMITH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feb 27, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown<\/a> on immigration, to his administration’s targeting of federal workers, and the White House’s attacks on the media<\/a>, a casual news reader may have missed that Trump has mused on multiple occasions about running for a third term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the democracy watchdog group Stand Up America said Thursday that Trump’s recent remarks about remaining in office are worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This “isn’t a joke or a slip of the tongue. It’s a test to see how far he can go in his quest for unchecked power,” said<\/a> Stand Up America executive director Christina Harvey in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has made cryptic comments about a third term in office, something the U.S. Constitution does not allow, on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While speaking with House Republicans on November 13, Trump said<\/a>: “I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say, ‘He’s so good we’ve got to figure something else out.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Am I allowed to run again?” Trump asked<\/a> in late January at House Republicans’ annual issues retreat at Trump National Doral, Trump’s golf club and resort outside Miami. “[Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)], I better not get you involved in that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harvey’s statement comes on the 74th anniversary of the ratification of the 22nd Amendment, which limits a person to being elected only twice to the presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Today would be a good day for every elected official to reaffirm the oath they took to defend our Constitution, including the 22nd Amendment,” Harvey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after Trump was inaugurated, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.)\u00a0introduced<\/a>\u00a0a resolution on January 23 seeking to amend the Constitution so that Trump could serve a third term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ELOISE GOLDSMITH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eloise Goldsmith is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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