Answers about the 2028 presidential election are likely to require a trigger warning for the Trump deranged, as the chief executive touched on a possible third term and hypothetical opponents.
President Donald Trump hasn’t even finished the first year of his second term and many of his detractors are readying strategies to halt the America First agenda in favor of a return to the Biden-Harris days of America Last. However, while the Founding Father of MAGA voiced favor for his running mate taking a crack at the White House, Trump expressed continued interest in seeking to extend his stay through 2032.
“I would love to do it. I have my best numbers ever, it’s very terrible, I have my best numbers,” said the president aboard Air Force One while en route to Japan from Malaysia, while also criticizing the intellect of Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
Speaking with reporters on board Air Force One en route to Japan on Monday, President Trump again refused to rule out a bid for a third presidential term, despite the 22nd Amendment limiting presidents to being elected twice.
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“All I can tell you is that we have a great group of people, which they don’t. They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. They have AOC, who is low IQ,” said Trump as California Gov. Gavin Newsom admitted to his own presidential interest while former Vice President Kamala Harris floated the potential of seeking a three-peat in failed White House bids. “You give her an IQ test — have her pass the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed, I took … those are very hard — they’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way. But they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump.”
The president’s expressed interest in running a fourth consecutive campaign for the White House comes as talking heads on corporate media have been left reaching for assurances against that hypothetical after onetime White House chief strategist Steve Bannon had insisted that, despite the restrictions imposed by the 22nd Amendment, “Trump is gonna be president in ’28, and people just ought to get accommodated with that.”
At the same time, Trump wasn’t shy about showing favor for key figures in his current administration as he lauded Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“We have great people. I don’t have to get into that. We have one of them standing right here,” said the president as he pointed to Rubio, who’d been influential in negotiating eight peace deals and counting. “We have J.D., obviously. The vice president is great. I think Marco’s great. I’m not sure if anybody would run against those two. I think if they ever formed a group, it would be unstoppable, I really do.”
Meanwhile, though he remained assured that it would be within his right to do so, Trump appeared to rule out a hypothetical run as vice president on a ticket topped by Vance as he told the traveling reporters, “I think the people wouldn’t like that. It’s too cute. It’s not — it wouldn’t be right.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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