Bill O’Reilly Shoots Down Steve Bannon’s ‘Fantasy’ About Trump Third Term: ‘Never Gonna Happen’
Bill O’Reilly shot down former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s remarks about President Donald Trump serving a third term in the White House on Tuesday, dismissing the idea as “a fantasy” that will never happen.
After Bannon told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo he was “working on” securing Trump a third term in the White House in 2028, O’Reilly shot down the idea shortly after on the same show.
“That’s a fantasy and I don’t really consider those kinds of things,” he responded. “It’s not gonna happen, never will happen. It’s not worth my time or your time. Donald Trump will serve out his second term, hopefully he’ll be successful, and then JD Vance will run for president in ’28 unless something happens. That’s what’s gonna happen.”
ESPN host Stephen A. Smith criticized O’Reilly’s response, arguing that even if the idea was a “fantasy,” there were still people trying to make it happen.
“Respectfully, Bill O’Reilly, it doesn’t matter whether it’s not going to happen,” he argued. “It matters that people on the right who preached for decades upon decades about following the Constitution suddenly come on national television and say there’s nothing wrong with circumventing it. That’s the issue.”
Smith continued:
The 22nd Amendment says it, okay? It explicitly states in the Constitution that for the presidency, there will be a two-term limit. No person shall serve more than two terms. They know this. Now these are the same people that spent decades upon decades telling us, “The Constitution, the Constitution, the Constitution. We’re gonna follow the Constitution.” But now that they’ve got a guy in office that they swear by, suddenly the rules don’t apply.
He concluded, “I’m very alarmed at it, and I don’t even think it’s gonna happen myself, but the gall, the audacity for him to come on national television and say such a thing I think is incredibly alarming.”
“Well I’m gonna say right now that I’m gonna be in the NBA finals,” mocked O’Reilly. “Look Stephen, I want to calm you down, man. This is fringe stuff. It doesn’t have popular support. I don’t know who the people you are referring to. Steve Bannon would like Trump to be president until he’s 112, and that’s fine. It doesn’t mean anything. Means nothing. So let’s get onto something that does mean something.”
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