Never much known for its good sense of humor, the left remains in freakout mode over President Donald Trump’s entertaining jokes about running again for president in 2028, a clear attempt to just provoke the left into lashing out over nothing instead of focusing on more important things. Such was clearly the case on CNN’s “CNN NewsNight” program on the night of Friday, October 24.
Such became clear when CNN host Abby Phillip went berserk and demanded answers from CNN’s token conservative, Scott Jennings, over Trump’s jokes about the subject, insisting that the president is attacking the Constitution by joking about it. Jennings was nonplussed, making the incident all the more entertaining.
In this case, Phillip’s freakout appears to have been provoked by Steve Bannon telling The Economist, “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 further claimed, “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.”
That is almost certainly untrue, as Lara Trump told Stuart Varney that “Once Donald Trump ends his term, and we love the Trump 2028, hats, don’t kid yourself. I know everybody, especially a lot of Democrats, love those, then it will be JD Vance for the next eight years, and that is terrifying to the Democrat Party.”
Regardless, Phillip was angry that Bannon even broached the matter and suggested that Trump is actually going to run for a third term, saying, “Why do you think Steve Bannon keeps saying this? And that Trump keeps putting, you know, the ‘2028’ hat on the desk and all that?”
Responding, a nonplussed and seemingly somewhat entertained Scott Jennings informer her that Trump is just trolling his enemies, saying, “He keeps on the hats and stuff because he’s trolling his opponents and he knows how crazy it drives them when he does these kinds of things.”
Commenting on the matter of Bannon’s motivations, he said, “Bannon, I don’t know. I don’t know him personally. I don’t know him well at all. Maybe he believes this. Maybe he doesn’t. I just know what the Constitution says. I know what most Republicans would think about it. And I know what the Supreme Court would do about it. So I don’t really think this is serious.”
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Phillip then demanded that Jennings personally denounce the idea of the president running for a third term, asking, “Just to get it on the record, Scott. If this came up and there was a real attempt to give Trump a third term, would you be for it or against it?” Jennings, playing along with the ridiculous demand, said, “I’m long on the record of opposing violating the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.”
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The Economist, in a post on X regarding Bannon’s comments, said, “Steve Bannon insists that Donald Trump will be president again for a third term in 2028—and that America needs him to. Mr Bannon, one of the chief architects of the MAGA movement, spoke to Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, and Ed Carr, our deputy editor, in Washington, DC. At The Economist, we believe it is important to engage seriously with people whose ideas challenge our own. The ideas Mr Bannon champions are gaining traction across America and beyond.”