Steve Bannon says Trump has many options to run for president again in 2028.
President Donald Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon said the Constitution that bars one from being the president more than twice can't stop Trump from serving a third term if he starts millionaire tax that would tax the rich but would help him. “This is being fought behind closed doors right now, and I’m telling you, with the massive tax cut, in addition, he’s going to give the working class and the middle class, the math only works out if you actually increase taxes on the wealthy,” the former Trump adviser said on NewsNation suggesting that a system where the rich takes care of the middle class would sustain Trump in power.
“The Democrats never raised taxes on oligarchs, never raised taxes on Wall Street, never took away carried interest. The Democratic Party is absolutely beholden to the billionaires, the oligarchs,” Bannon said. “Trump’s the only person ever stood for the working class.”
“And this, this massive tax cut, which the Democrats never did, to take the attacks away from a Social Security, take tax away from tips, take tax away from overtime for working class people, is the first time that the working class has got an additional tax cut from everybody else, and Trump’s fighting for that,” he argued.
Trump for 2028 sounds like an impossible idea but has been reinforced time and again with a little push from the president himself, as he is not dismissing the talks but providing a little fuel. His organization came up with
Trump 2028
hats and T-shirts this week as he asserted he is serious about running for president in 2028 too.
"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once," says the 22nd Amendment.
But an easy shortcut is to run for the vice president in 2018 with JD Vance running for president. If they win, JD Vance can step down making way for the vice president to become the president.
In an interview with TIME magazine published on Friday, Trump said there are "some loopholes that have been discussed" to allow him to serve a third term. However, he said he does not "believe in using loopholes."
On being directly asked whether he would run as a running mate to JD Vance in 2028, he said, "I don’t know anything about, what, look, all I can say is this, I am being inundated with requests. I'm doing a good job. Great physical exam, and unlike every other president, I took the cognitive test and I aced it 100% and I bet you guys couldn't get 100% on that exam. It's a tough exam. You know, when you get into the mid questions, it gets to be pretty tricky and pretty tough, and the last questions are very tough, and I aced it. And I guarantee, I'd give you, I'd make a big, beautiful bet that you guys couldn't ace it. But anyway. But look, it's good to have you, it’s a very nasty interview. They don’t ask any of the good things."