Can we finally skip to the part where we arrest him?!
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That part will never happen. No matter what - he's getting away with it. He's too old to face any real consequences.
What we need to ensure is that responsibility doesn't end with him. We need a new round of Nuremberg trials and his cronies and enablers need to be held to account.
No mercy. Those in the military who executed illegal orders should be court-martialed and executed.
If I could trust the system to actually enforce the Constitution, I'd say bring it on. The 22nd amendment never prohibits running when you're ineligible to be elected. I'd actually love to see him run, "win", and then have to watch his opponent get sworn in because he's not eligible.
IF I could actually trust that the Constitution would be enforced.
Wait, that's illegal
Oh damn its illegal?
Clearly the God Emperor would never do anything illegal.
Good Lord. If trump looked any more like roadkill, he'd have to fight to keep RFK Jr from trying to eat him. He looks like absolute dogshit. I didn't think it was possible for somebody to look worse than Steve Bannon, and to be fair it's really fucking close, but trump does manage to look like a slightly worse, bloated corpse here.
But he's also a shitty president and a shitty person. Fuck trump. I can't wait to open my bottle of bourbon when it happens.
RFK: Oh look!, I need to remove his penis for later. ..... wait, where is the penis? I should be here somewhere!
The morbidly obese fucktwit with a shitty spray tan and a flappy vagina on his neck thinks he can mock other people's physical appearances. The irony is fucking rich.
sic semper tyranis
Why is this site acting like the joke he made at the correspondents dinner that happened months ago was a real announcement?
Also why are so many users pushing this narrative that he's just testing the waters now? Where were you right after he made that announcement back then?
This seems more like a ragebait and distraction from the real political headlines and recent news.
The one months ago he was evacuated from because of that nutter
This appears to have been this week
If it's a joke then he's being Schrodinger's arsehole
See I thought it was months ago and this had me scratching my head, thought I'd remembered wrong.
Then I hope you fuckers vote for Obama
Don't forget that he is only president NOW because we are already ignoring the constitution. Don't act like breaking a different amendment is any different. We already lost our constitution and rule of law when we stopped enforcing them.
14th amendment - Section 3
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
He engaged in insurrection, Congress never voted to remove it, he is holding office NOW despite our constitution stating quite clearly he is ineligible.
Illegitimate president.
Yeah, the Supreme Court finding that the President was exempt from that wording really shows you the how they are willing to jump through to take over the government.
I'm horrified but also morbidly curious to see what bullshit they'll be coming up with next to let Trump continue to rule.
The supreme court is on his side
And that's why they need to be abolished. It was obviously a bad idea, let's try something else.
Im curious what the alternative to an ultimate judicial authority might look like?
The court should be made up of a rotating panel of judges, made up of judges from the district courts, or lower courts in general, so the judges themselves are also subject to the court’s rulings, rather than a few permanent power-hungry narcissists imperiously sitting above us all with no accountability.
Each judge must be part of the Supreme Court for a year or two at a time, call it a “detail,” then they go back to their normal job as a judge.
Ok, yeah, this sounds reasonable to me.
This is still describing an ultimate judicial authority (aka, a "Supreme court") just one with an alternative formulation of the conditions for which one serves on the court.
Original guy seemed to imply just getting rid of it as a concept entirely.
That actually seems pretty practical.
Something more horizontal.
You can bullshit around the insurrection label, but the term limit is pretty cut and dry. Not going to stop them, but the ramp is how we got here.
2016, Obama was president: Trump thinks that there were no problems with the elections.
2018, Trump was president: Trump doubts the legitimacy of the midterm elections
2020, Trump was president: Trump thinks that the elections were rigged.
2022, Biden was president: Trump has no complaints about the elections and calls it a "great night".
2024, Biden was president: Trump does not doubt the legitimacy of the elections.
2026, Trump is president: Trump thinks that the midterm elections are going to be rigged.
I think that I am starting to see a pattern forming.
Trump absolutely thinks there were over 3 million illegal votes in 2016 and the reason he didn't win the popular vote. While president he didn't demand or even mention having an investigation into what would have been the largest democratic voting fraud case in world history. There should have been thousands of arrests to pull off 3+ million illegal votes.
Only two outcomes.
- He made it up on the spot because he hates to lose anything.
- He was right but also extremely incompetent in not calling for an investigation and there were somehow no whistle blowers nor any evidence at all and he almost never talks about it later.
To be fairer to Pedonald than might be reasonable, he did question the 2016 results. Both before the election as a "if I lose it must have been rigged, because that would make me sad", and after as a "I totally won the popular vote too, and every single state, but those fake votes made it look like I didn't."
From that website....
wtf? plz, no. That idea needs to be shot down right now.
I seriously doubt that Hunter Biden is even remotely interested
He's said he's not.
granted, he can't be worse than the asshole we currently have, but, like. that's a very, very low standard. Positively subterranean.
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Of all the people not to be insulting others for their physical appearance. What an absolute pathetic loser. I can't wait until I never have to see his disgusting face again.
Okay, in context this headline and, really, the entire article seem pretty batshit. Trump did not announce a re-election bid. He told a string of awful scripted jokes that concluded with his dumb hat.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump-washington
The speech included a handful of scripted jokes, one at the expense of Robert F Kennedy Jr, his health secretary who he quipped had personally run over the cow that became the evening’s “very delicious beef tenderloin”. Kennedy has championed the health benefits of beef tallow and animal protein.
Trump also mocked the weight of Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, and Jerry Nadler, the New York congressman, imagining the two wrestling over a piece of cheesecake. He ridiculed the appearance of his critics, including Bruce Springsteen who he said “looks like hell” and took aim at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who had been honored earlier for her White House coverage, saying she does not smile enough. Trump said he “hated” Adam Schiff, a Democratic California senator, and one of his most prominent congressional critics, while mocking the size of his head and neck.
At one point, after a joke about term limits fell flat, Trump broke the fourth wall, asking the audience whether anyone understood “this whole freakin stupid speech that they wrote”.
Trump ended his remarks with a joke that landed awkwardly, declaring that he planned to run and win a fourth election – a reference both to his false claim he won the 2020 election and to his repeated suggestion that he could seek a third term, despite the constitution’s two-term limit.
It's always a "joke" until it isn't. This is textbook gas lighting, and its a documented tactic from him and abusers like him.
I think the reason no one's reporting it is that it just isn't a story. Trump makes comments like this all the time. There's a difference between him making them and him actually announcing a re-election bid, which is the claim in the headline and article. Why would he even announce at the White House Correspondents Dinner while he's bombing on stage? It just makes no sense. This reporting is bad.
If you listen carefully, you will find he never jokes. Testing the waters at least.
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A common excuse of abusers and gas lighters is that they "were only joking".
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Also trump: I will be running for Chancellor of FIFA, Prime Minister of India King of Spain CEO of Amazon Captain of Space Force The Czar of Mars and the world record for the largest, goldest ballroom in the Universe.
Czar Of Mars has a nice ring to it
Treason.
Hmm. Why is an Australian news organization the only one reporting this...?
Cause he just did it, and its like midnight in the USA. Also, there's a distinct possibility that SOME news organizations are owned by the same people who support Project 2025 and/or were cheering when he said that.
Cause he just did it, and its like midnight in the USA.
You think US media... went to bed?
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/24/us/trump-news/337d4884-6be7-533f-983c-438ad7e505c3
Trump has concluded his speech after about an hour. Weijia Jiang, retaking the microphone, offers compliments to Kaitlan Collins and Josh Dawsey, two award winners that Trump mocked in his remarks.
That was posted two hours ago.
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So is he admitting he HASN'T been elected twice?
No, he's admitting that the third time won't be by election.
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