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Donald Trump said in an interview released on Sunday that he did not think he would run for president again in 2028 if he loses this year’s race for the White House.

In an interview on the Full Measure television show with Sharyl Attkisson, the former US president – who ran in 2016 and 2020 – was asked whether he saw himself running yet again in four years time.

“No, I don’t,” Trump answered. “I don’t see that at all.”

He said: “Hopefully, we’re going to be successful.”

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[–] [email protected] 148 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Well he definitely said that in 2020, and if someone had had the foresight to ask him in 2016 he probably would have said it then as well, so I’m going to go ahead and be a little skeptical here.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shh don't interrupt him when he's accidentally campaigning for harris here

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (5 children)

"If I lose, I won't run again!" - 34 Time Convicted Felon Donald J Trump

Left voting intensifies

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, yes. Trump Lies. We all know that. One can only hope that his ongoing mental breakdown will be clearly visible by them even to the hardcore fans of him.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hope that his ongoing mental breakdown will be clearly visible by them

it doesn't matter what's "visible" when your entire reality is fabricated by trump, fox news, and your safe space private far-right facebook group

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Honestly this election is clearly taking a toll on him, and in four more years that unhealthy lifestyle might have caught up with him

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He also said he wouldn’t run again if he lost to Biden 4 years ago. Why does anyone believe a single word that comes out of his shithole of a mouth?

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm just surprised that he admitted to possibly losing

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Last time he said he'd leave the country and we'd never hear from him again if he lost.

Yet here we are.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought the election is “stolen” if he should lose.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

He didn't really though. The headline makes it sound like Trump said "I won't run again if I lose." But that's not the case. The exchange was actually:

Interviewer: If you're not successful this time, do you see yourself running again in four years?

Trump: No I don't. I think that will be... uhh... that will be it. I don't see that at all. Hopefully we're going to be successful.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hopefully he won't be alive by then.

Otherwise, I'd trust him keeping his word on this as much as I'd trust him in general: not at all

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Come on, name one time he's ever lied before. You can't even name two. There's not even a dozen times. Certainly it's less than a hundred? A thousand?

ETA: Wikipedia says it's nearly 31000 just while he was president, if you count false or misleading, still more than 5000/2.5 yr if you only count outright falsehoods.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

You can't name just one time he lied because if you refer to any specific statement he's made, it contains at least two lies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I refuse to do the math to be sure, but if we extrapolate how many times per day he's publicly lied in recent years with the number of days he's been alive, we're probably talking millions of lies overall lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It is hilarious to me that there's an encyclopedia entry for this. MAGA probably already thinks Wikipedia is woke trash or whatever.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It'll be difficult to run for president inside a cell.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Difficult but not illegal or impossible.

And that's assuming that he'll ever see consequences anywhere near that magnitude for his many crimes. Which is unlikely.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He also said he’d “disappear” if he lost the 2020 election. At this rate the only way we will stop hearing about him is when he dies, and yet Im sure once we are rid of his existence, the deranged cultists will continue to believe he still stalks the earthly realm.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

From indisputably natural causes. I would love for the martyrdom and conspiracy theories to be optimally minimized. Cultists do scary shit to the general population, and I'd rather that they just get bored and move on to the next grift to be victimized by since they're clearly not interested in not being targeted rubes. The persecution complex is an inherent chunk of their entire identity.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I want him to cark it on stage from something like getting struck by lightning.

I also wonder if the secret service would notice if I snuck some giant tesla coils onto his rally stage. maybe a big red button on the podium that flips them back on?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That button should be on his lectern and it should say TRUMP so he’ll do the honors himself.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

"Do Not Push"

for plausible deniability.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The most poetic death for trump would be to suffer a stroke at one of his rallies. The stroke hits and he begins to mix up words and blather nonsense. He can sense something is wrong but his bigly words are not working, he tries to tell his faithful what’s happening.

The meschia and windmilths are shooo shlaaaaad

He slurs out, those weren’t the words he wanted, but with neurons misfiring the most used pathways are trying to help. He spends minutes, all recorded for history, dying in front of his bored onlookers unable to ask for help. His years of word salad and lies have finally achieved an awful goal, no one can tell his brain is broken. For this boy that cried wolf a million times, finally the fangs of an enemy he can’t bully or bribe have sunk in deep, years of kfc fried chicken grease now blocking bloodflow to his brain.

It’s only been a few minutes, the crowd awaits some applause or laugh line, but for trump the time feels like an eternity. The pain is increasing, the fear all consuming, he collapses and dies there.

A fitting end to the man whose greatest fear was that people would realize his weird incoherent ramblings were a con.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From indisputably natural causes. I would love for the martyrdom and conspiracy theories to be optimally minimized

Unfortunately, the most likely one is a heart attack caused by his 8 decades of unhealthy living finally catching up with him and since there's TONS of things that can cause a heart attack, the cult would DEFINITELY declare foul play.

Also, if anything that can't be induced kills him, they're just gonna figuratively stick their fingers in their ears and make up another cause of death that fits their narrative of him being a martyr murdered by the Deep State because he was a threat. Heads they believe it's murder, tails they don't believe it isn't murder.

What would be ideal would be for him to suffer a debilitating stroke or something else that leaves him so enfeebled that even the cult can't pretend that he's almighty. Preferably some time before the election.

Not something I'd wish on basically anyone else, but that monster has shed any pretense of human compassion and self-awareness decades ago, so fuck him with a rusty rail spike.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly I think that if he lost the election, and was incarcerated even under home arrest with no access to his fans, he would more or less immediately become irrelevant, and he would grow frail very quickly.

Imagine how miserable that would be for him. His own personal hell.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

He said that about 2024 in 2020, but here he is. Did he forget because of dementia or is he just a liar?

It is an abuser tactic, silent treatment or withholding affection if he doesn't get what he wants. I guess that might work on his cult even if it has the opposite effect on people with multiple brain cells.

If he is alive in 2028 he will run again. Hopefully he is in prison by then.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Considering his mental decline in the last four years, in 2028, he will only be able to get on a stage and shit himself. And people will still vote for him.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Considering his mental decline in the last four years, in ~~2028~~ 2024, he will only be able to get on a stage and shit himself. And people will still vote for him.

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

He can do that today, and it would be the most pleasant thing to ever come out of him on stage.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] tastysnacks 9 points 1 month ago

I just hope he goes to prison. We better not get any of this "heal the country" shit. You know what will heal the country? Having people who break the look law go to jail.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Three u.s establishment would never allow a former president to go to prison. It's never going to happen. All we can hope for is death by big Mac by the time he's 80

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Trump says a lot of things.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

So he's signaling his potential supporters "it's now or never"... again.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The words coming out of his mouth aren’t even worth the paper they’re printed on

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

What's interesting to me is that he seemed to acknowledge the possibility of failing at all. And that he didn't organize the answer around "if the election is stolen" or something. This is unlike him.

This answer was almost human.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

He'd be 82, and the implication is that the country would have just had 4 years of a relatively young, female President.

He doesn't sound like a viable candidate at all in that scenario. (Not that he's a viable candidate now and they still ran him, so I guess all bets are off anyway)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Speaking of... The guy who hired the truck with 'LOSER' emblazoned on its side to patrol the white house in 2019, how do I get in on that action this time round, say, in Florida?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd much rather chip in to get a billboard that says "Ha Hah!" That's visible from his prison cell.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

This is the same guy who he insists he won in 2020 and is supposed to be sitting president now. By his logic, he's running for a third term.

He's also said that he will become a dictator on day one if he's elected this year. Why would he run in 2028 if he abolishes elections or makes a loophole to stay in the White House?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

That's what he said last time. Only two things will actually stop him: the death of the Republican Party or his own

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Let's leave that up to the states.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

If he weren't lying I'd be ecstatic right now. Although the laws of human mortality may prove him a truth teller for once in his life.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

He's good. Just collecting enough money 😄💰 for the various playoffs he needs to do and for his one way ticket to the caiman islands.

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