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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump says he doesn't want to be a despot, unless, you know, you'd LIKE him to be one.
President Donald Trump, who has previously heralded Chinese President Xi Jinping being enabled to rule for life, joked about being president for 16 years during a speech at the White House Thursday. Trump was appearing on the White House lawn to tout the benefits of recently passed tax cuts when he slipped into a claim about his administrations effectiveness at cutting regulations.
Weve cut more regulations in a year and a quarter than any administration, whether its four years, eight years or, in one case, 16 years, he said. Should we go back to 16 years? Congressman, can we have that extended? The last time I jokingly said that, the papers started saying 'he's got despotic tendencies!' No, I'm not looking to do it, unless you want to do it.
Trumps talk of 16 years appeared to be a reference to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only president to serve more than two terms. However, while he was elected for a fourth term, he died just a couple of months into it.
It is not the first time the president has raised the possibility of extending his White House stay beyond the Constitutionally-allowed two terms. Speaking last month after China removed the two-term limit on its presidency, Trump was full of praise for the idea of a leader continuing indefinitely.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-president-16-years-life-884073
Weve cut more regulations in a year and a quarter than any administration, whether its four years, eight years or, in one case, 16 years, he said. Should we go back to 16 years? Congressman, can we have that extended? The last time I jokingly said that, the papers started saying 'he's got despotic tendencies!' No, I'm not looking to do it, unless you want to do it.
Trumps talk of 16 years appeared to be a reference to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only president to serve more than two terms. However, while he was elected for a fourth term, he died just a couple of months into it.
It is not the first time the president has raised the possibility of extending his White House stay beyond the Constitutionally-allowed two terms. Speaking last month after China removed the two-term limit on its presidency, Trump was full of praise for the idea of a leader continuing indefinitely.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-president-16-years-life-884073
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"The last time I jokingly said that, the papers started saying 'he's got despotic tendencies!' No, I'm not looking to do it." http://abcn.ws/2hFejwL
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"The last time I jokingly said that, the papers started saying 'he's got despotic tendencies!' No, I'm not looking to do it." http://abcn.ws/2hFejwL
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Trump says he doesn't want to be a despot, unless, you know, you'd LIKE him to be one. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Apr 2018
OP
The dumber and the less educated he sounds in public the more his base likes him.
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2018
#6
He'll be lucky to get through the next 16 weeks let alone 16 fucking years. And you
Kirk Lover
Apr 2018
#4
greatauntoftriplets
(175,771 posts)1. Over my dead body, Spanky.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)2. He should only ever talk without notes
Why bother with the written-by-someone-else BS speeches that he neither believes nor understands? Stick to the off-the-cuff remarks and top of the head ramblings.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)3. He has the best words anyway. He's got this! -nt
Eliot Rosewater
(31,134 posts)6. The dumber and the less educated he sounds in public the more his base likes him.
Now in truth he is that dumb and that uneducated.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)4. He'll be lucky to get through the next 16 weeks let alone 16 fucking years. And you
know it donnie douchebag. Browns now on the regular in his draws no doubt.
maxrandb
(15,387 posts)5. 16 Years
will more than likely be all of your prison term you'll serve.
You're going to die in fucking prison you racist piece of shit.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)7. Joke? Trump doesn't have a sense of humor
He thinks insulting people and bragging are humor. He has no sense of irony either.