{"id":17150,"date":"2025-04-05T21:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17150"},"modified":"2025-04-05T21:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:34:25","slug":"how-trump-could-snatch-a-third-term-despite-the-22nd-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17150","title":{"rendered":"How Trump Could Snatch a Third Term \u2014 Despite the 22nd Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;If Trump decided he wanted to hold onto power past 2028, there are at least four paths he could try:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He could generate a movement to repeal the 22nd Amendment directly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He could exploit a little-noticed loophole in the amendment that might allow him to run for\u00a0<em>vice<\/em>\u00a0president and then immediately ascend back to the presidency.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He could run for president again on the bet that a pliant Supreme Court won\u2019t stop him.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or he could simply refuse to leave \u2014 and put a formal end to America\u2019s democratic experiment.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/01\/31\/trump-defy-constitution-third-term-00200239\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/01\/31\/trump-defy-constitution-third-term-00200239<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If Trump decided he wanted to hold onto power past 2028, there are at least four paths he could try:<br \/>\nHe could generate a movement to repeal the 22nd Amendment directly.<br \/>\nHe could exploit a little-noticed loophole in the amendment that might allow him to run for vice president and then immediately ascend back to the presidency.<br \/>\nHe could run for president again on the bet that a pliant Supreme Court won\u2019t stop him.<br \/>\nOr he could simply refuse to leave \u2014 and put a formal end to America\u2019s democratic experiment.&#8221;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/01\/31\/trump-defy-constitution-third-term-00200239<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2194,1104,864,431,660,221,813,222,170],"class_list":["post-17150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-22nd-amendment","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17151,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17150\/revisions\/17151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}