Trump 2028
Trolling or actual issue? For just $50, you can own a “Trump 2028” hat, courtesy of the Trump Organization’s online store. “The future looks bright!” reads the product description. “Rewrite the rules with the Trump 2028 high crown hat.”
President Donald Trump (born in 1946, and getting up there in the years) being elected to a third term in 2028 would be a violation of the 22nd Amendment.
“A lot of people would like me to do that,” Trump told NBC earlier this year. “But, I mean, I basically tell them, we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.” Steve Bannon has also planted seeds along the same lines.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt had these aspirations too, prior to the 22nd Amendment’s passage in 1951, yet his fourth term ended with his death in April 1945, just three months into it. Given that we’re still recovering from FDR’s 12 years of government and executive power expansion, and given that it would be a huge violation of the Constitution, I don’t think Trump seeking another term would be appropriate at all. But is there harm in joking about it?
Team Trump loves both their trolling and retaining some plausible deniability via jokes. Putting a Trump hotel up in the Gaza Strip: joke or real idea for a peace process? Building five more Terrorism Confinement Centers (CECOT) and sending “homegrown” criminals off to Uncle Nayib Bukele in El Salvador: friendly chit-chat or legitimate concept? Third term hat: fashion statement or an idea they’re working to seed? Your mileage may vary, but I don’t love this joke, personally.
ACLU tries to get Venezuelan deportees back to U.S. soil: Early today, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)—an organization with great roots that has, in recent years, strayed awfully far from its mission—filed a new version of the lawsuit they brought against the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) on March 15. This lawsuit, instead of trying to make it so groups of Venezuelans cannot be deported under the AEA, seeks to bring back the roughly 140 Venezuelan nationals who were already deported to El Salvador last month under the act.
The ACLU won its earlier suit, with Judge James E. Boasberg rebuking the administration, ordering it to stop using the AEA to send planes of Venezuelans to El Salvador, and to turn around flights that were already in the air (an order the administration claimed it could not comply with). The Boasberg-Trump showdown is ongoing, but the new ACLU suit seeks t
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