On this week’s episode of “The Each day Show,” Jon Stewart identified all of the signs that Donald Trump could also be planning for a 3rd term in office.
Late into Monday night’s monologue, Stewart played a clip of a journalist asking Trump on Air Force One if he’d be “willing to challenge the court” to serve a 3rd term as president. Trump’s response: “Well, I haven’t really thought of it.”
Stewart facetiously exclaimed in response, “Yes! He’s doing it! ‘I haven’t thought of it.’ That’s the tell for at any time when he’s asked about something that he is certainly going to try this is dubious legally, ethically, or morally. He says he hasn’t thought of it, but after all, we all know he’s thought of it, because he already has the merch.” The late-night pundit then cut to a photograph of two “Trump 2028” hats sitting on the Oval Office desk.
“Now, after all, the negative nellies are going to have issues. They’ll say presidents cannot serve greater than two terms, because of the twenty second Amendment,” Stewart added. “But what’s interesting about Trump is he’s actually worked through the varied scenarios of running for a 3rd term he has not thought of.”
Back on Air Force One, a reporter asked Trump if he would run as Vice President to get to a 3rd term. Although the President asserted he’d “be allowed to try this,” he repeatedly deemed the tactic “too cute” for him to try.
“Too cute? No, that’s why you don’t go to a Construct-A-Bear as an adult,” Stewart joked. “Running as a Vice President to skirt the twenty second Amendment isn’t cute. But he’s the type of guy who’s like, ‘I respect Americans an excessive amount of to play games. If I’m going to run again, I’m going to tear off the Structure’s head and shit down its neck.’ And truth is, indications are very clear he’s going to do it. You don’t move right into a house, knock down a wing, and construct a 90,000 square foot ballroom for the subsequent guy.”
Watch all the monologue below.