He's the president of the most powerful country on earth. When his words are "I'm seeking a dictatorship" they are news.

Exactly. Our media is absolutely spineless.

It should be breaking news, the US has fallen to authoritarianism. Trump is a dictator, etc.

They are not reporting the news accurately. But then again, the media currently serves the billionaire class.

This is one of those things were it is important to report on what he's saying tho.

Even if old age gets him, Vance becomes the acting president, and he's every bit as evil while not being quite as senile. I highly doubt the MAGA cult is going to die alongside Trump.

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one tactic is for him to serve as VP under someone else who promises to resign to allow Trump to serve again

According to the 12th amendment, "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."

This seems pretty plain to me: if you can't serve as president, you also can't serve as vice president. Of course, this has never been tested in court...

Just not holding elections due to some sort of national emergency is a tried and true method.

Trump is inelagable to be president after their second term, the line of succession would jump to Johnson.

Never been tested in court tho so I'm sure it'd get by. But at that point why even care about the rules?

He's making a lot of noise about Zelensky not going to the polls. So ...

War, he's talking about taking America to war so strongly they can't have an election.

The boring bit is that I'm not the least bit surprised that he said that. other aspects of this dystopian timeline are certainly less boring.

Trump isn’t supposed to be able to assume office according to the constitution being an insurrectionist and all. The document doesn’t say a damn thing about total presidential immunity.

The constitution is meaningless.

There is an exception for wartime... Fuck Nevermind. I checked and that was false.

I said the same thing, but it turns out there is a weasely way around it. The 22nd amendment doesn't actually say you can only be president for two terms. The text actually says:

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,

Some guy pitched it as "Vance runs with Asshole as VP, wins then resigns. Asshole is prez again." Of course this requires Vance not having ambitions of his own.

perhaps we should give the other constitution a crack at it.

Immunity from crimes. Always has been. Although the lust for power is bigly too.