Steve Bannon Insists There’s Already a Plan in Motion to Get Trump a Third Term: He’s ‘Gonna Be President in ’28’
Steve Bannon insisted in a Thursday interview with The Economist that President Donald Trump will somehow receive a third term and there is already a plan in place to make that happen.
Bannon, a former official advisor to Trump, sat down with The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes and deputy editor Ed Carr in Washington, D.C. this week, and he doubled down on his past suggestions that Trump will remain in the White House in 2028 despite the fact that he’ll have served two terms by then.
“He’s going to get a third term. So Trump ’28, Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people just ought to get accommodated with that,” Bannon declared.
Bannon has discussed a Trump third term in the past, throwing out various loophole suggestions, but never committing to a concrete plan. One suggestion was Trump get on a ticket as vice president and then whoever is at the top of the ticket would step down once elected.
In the interview with The Economist, Bannon dismissed concerns about the 22nd Amendment, which prohibits anyone from being elected to the office of the presidency more than twice.
“There’s many different alternatives. At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is. But there’s a plan, and President Trump will be the president in ’28,” Bannon insisted.
The WarRoom podcast host called Trump an “instrument of divine will” and claimed a third term will be needed to “finish” the job.
“I’m trying to understand the coherence of the things you’ve just told me in the last few minutes. On the one hand, you’ve said the Constitution is fit for purpose. Secondly, you said that President Trump needs another term, even though the 22nd Amendment makes pretty clear that he cannot have another term,” Beddoes fired back at Bannon.
“Why does it make that clear?” Bannon asked.
“Because he’s in his second term already,” Beddoes explained.
She told Bannon he would be “undermining” that amendment even if he found a way around it.
“If the American people, with the mechanisms we have, put Trump back in office, are the American people tearing up the Constitution? Would the American People be going against the spirit of the Constitution, ma’am?” Bannon asked.
“I think yes, actually, because I think what you will end up with is a populist justification for a quasi-dictatorship,” Beddoes countered.
“That’s not true at all,” Bannon said.
He claimed Trump will be put back in office thanks to the “will of the American people,” dismissing concerns about undermining the Constitution and paving the way for dictators.
“The will of the American people is what the constitution embodies, and so I think we’re going to be we’re gonna be in good hands there,” Bannon said. “We need to finish what we started, and President Trump is the instrument, a providential instrument to finish that, to finish this job.”
Watch above via The Economist.
