Donald Trump ruled out this Monday, October 27, running as a vice presidential candidate in 2028, a maneuver mentioned by some of his supporters to allow him to circumvent the constitutional limit of two terms.
“I would have the right to do it,” he said during an exchange with the press on board his plane, during a flight between Japan and Malaysia. “I wouldn’t do it,” the American president added, however, considering that it would be “playing smart.” “That wouldn’t be good,” he said again.
Donald Trump, already president from 2017 to 2021, and who began a second term on January 20, often mentions, without openly rejecting them, his supporters’ calls to serve a third term, even if the US Constitution prohibits it.
“There is a strategy”
He also repeatedly displayed red caps with the inscription “Trump 2028”, the year of the next presidential elections.
One of the popular hypotheses in the Trumpist world would be that the 79-year-old billionaire would run for vice president within three years, and that the current vice president, JD Vance, would be a candidate for president.
In this scenario, in the event of victory, JD Vance would resign and be automatically replaced by Donald Trump, who would remain in the White House, circumventing the 22nd amendment to the US Constitution, which establishes that no one can be elected president more than twice.
“Trump will be president in 2028, people need to get used to that idea,” one of the main ideologues of the MAGA movement, Steve Bannon, recently told The Economist magazine. “There is a strategy” for this, which will be revealed “in due time,” insisted the influencer and former advisor to the American president.
Source: BFM TV
