"Jon Stewart joked Trump "already has the merch," referring to a red "Trump 2028" cap. Steve Bannon keeps teasing "a plan" to keep Trump in office. The Russian dissident and former chess champion Garry Kasparov warns of democracy's demise. It's a perfect storm of satire, conspiracy, and clickbait, but none of it adds up to a third term for Donald Trump."
"trying to tie together the demolition of the East Wing and the "Versailles-like ballroom" which will take its place into an elaborate metaphor for Trump destroying democracy. "Post-democratic America," they call it. They quote an expert on public memory, who explains "Trump's physical makeover of the White House represents a larger authoritarian project to reshape American society." Something about building monuments to oneself so people forget any predecessors. The expert also does not like the new gilding in the Oval Office."
"Who knows what goes through Trump's mind when he thinks of 2028, but we do know there is no way he is going to run for a third term. Three things make a genuine third-term bid for Trump impossible: the 22nd Amendment, the extraordinary difficulty of changing that amendment, and the legal implausibility of proposed way-out-there workaround schemes. Talk of a Trump third term is rhetorical, a tool for both sides to wind up their bases and bust the chops of the opposition."
Jon Stewart joked about a red "Trump 2028" cap while Steve Bannon teases a plan to keep Trump in office and Garry Kasparov warns of democracy's demise. Salon linked demolition of the East Wing and a "Versailles-like ballroom" to a broader authoritarian makeover, citing an expert who called Trump's White House redesign part of a larger authoritarian project and criticizing the new gilding. Speculation about a third term faces three insurmountable barriers: the 22nd Amendment, the extraordinary difficulty of amending it, and the legal implausibility of proposed workaround schemes. Third-term talk functions rhetorically to rile political bases.
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