Keep in mind that is exactly what I thought when Trump announced his candidacy in 2015.

Hegseth in a debate. Now that I'd like to see. What a putz.

I'm not from the USA, neither an English native speaker, but is Peter Hegseth in any way charismatic? I find Trump totally repulsive, however I can understand his "charism" that attracts people to vote for him when he's there mumbling his rampts and narcistic histories. So far, since 2025, that I can remember, anytime I saw any video of Peter Hegseth speaking he seems to have the same charism as a door.

This, would, of course, be important for a presidential candidate If there is any "democracy" left during the election time, since Trump's popularity is decreasing, his government does not seem too promising on having "good results" to show when the election time comes, therefore the transfer of charism and therefore votes that Trump would be able to execute would be limited, and the new candidate would have to work on his own.

Given the current state of affairs, as an external observator and not too familiar with USA real politics dynamics, I find it's easier for Trump and republicans to continue the rampamt breaking of laws and just really push for a 3rd term, as he's been publicly "teasing" since his 2024 campaign...

P.S.: Just to finish up, there's also the fact that Trump is old as f*, and seems to be becoming more senile by the minute (i.e.: his almost at the age his dad was diagnoses with dementia iirc), so maybe the thing is they would just be forced to move on from him and the "3rd term" thing would really just not come to fruition due to bad timing (Trump going full demented, dying, etc...). Or maybe if his popularity keeps going down, who knows if the democracts can obtain any majority in the midterm elections and put up an impeachment on both houses this time, this would also chance the outlook of things and force the republicans to choose a new candidate sooner than later.

I mean so far that has been very true

Isn't he tied to the Seven Mountain Mandate insanity?

Dipshit probably believes in that Left Behind bullshit, too.

Isn't that what they thought they were doing when they talked about Trump so much? Turning the joke candidate into this

So you're saying he's got a shot?

Hegseth is worse because he will live longer.

The hateful ones live the longest.

That is against the constitution. The 12th amendment says if a person is ineligible for president they are also ineligible for VP

Only thing possible is running for congress and then being speaker of the house, then both VP and President resign.

Didn't Putin allegedly get a little mad at this situation ? Trump couldn't mentally survive not being officially the big guy for a day.

I still laugh when someone watching him doing his manly macho bigly boy warrior ethos "exercise" and they shouted "all the way down, all the way UP!", LOOOOoooool.

I wonder if they kept their job or if they could cover and say they were directing that at others there out of shot.

Anyway, I remember coaches and gym teachers that would STOP COUNTING when counting reps and you did bad form. Whoever was counting for little Petey here should have done that. He was not doing anything useful here. I think I counted two actual reps out of the supposed 40-something, LOL.

https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-mocked-by-critics-over-workout-video-fitness-experts-weigh-in-12066692

Hey you leave cocaine out of this.

What are you talking about? You do realise this is the country that elected Trump twice, right?