The Trump administration has only been in power for four days so far and it is clear he will not give up power after his term is over. Why do I think this?

First, he floated the idea of running for a third term during his campaign. He floated it more recently before his inauguration. Now, a member of the House of Representatives, Rep Ogles, has actually filed an amendment to the Constitution to amend the 22nd amendment to change the term limits from two terms to three terms. The US has had a norm for Presidents serving more than two terms since Washington. FDR broke this norm and was elected to four terms. After his death the Constitution was amended to ensure no other President held the office more than two terms. This amendment should not be changed. It should not be changed for Trump.

Regardless, the door is open for Trump to disregard the 22nd Amendment. With the Republicans onboard for Trump to run again and to stay in office another term, because of his “bold” “Leadership”, Trump will use this as pretext to stay in office.

I cannot stress enough, this would be simply inexcusable for a Democrat to do. They would be castigate about this unendingly in the press. However, this is treated as a serious proposition rather than an unadulterated power grab.

Trump has already start the process to disregard other Constitutional Amendments. He is attacking the Birthright Citizenship, which is the 14th Amendment. We implemented the 14th amendment because of Slavery. After the Civil War, we implemented this so all the previously enslaved people were considered full citizens, as they should have been. Trump is attacking this amendment in an effort to go after immigrants, but this will continue with other US citizens. He will have the power to decide who is and who is not a citizen. Trump will claim his political enemies are not citizens.

Trump has effectively ignored portions of the 14th Amendment already, which prevents traitors from holding office. He has already pardoned the 1,500 traitors who stormed the Capitol. These 1,500 traitors were loyal to Trump while they were in prison. These people are still loyal to Trump. These people will continue supporting Trump. They will support Trump in staying in office. We should expect another insurrection in four years, if Trump isn’t allowed to stay in office.

This is NOT a reason for allowing Trump to stay in office by abandoning the 22nd Amendment. This is not a reason to fold up shop and just let Trump stay in power. These are all warning signs that we should listen to, so we can plan to prevent Trump from staying in power. We need to assume there will not be a peaceful transition of power at the end of this Presidency. We should assume there will be an armed mob attacking our voting apparatus. We should assume there will be voting intimidation. We should assume, there will be more stop the steal attacks.

Trump has an openly declared Nazi in his administration. Elon Musk, literally gave a Sieg Heil salute, at least twice, during his speech at the inauguration. He is a Nazi. Trump must be assumed to like Musk’s political stances. Trump is a racist old man with a racist Nazi sympathizer Co-President. He will try to stay in power. Musk may try to assume power if Trump dies in office. Musk cannot be President, because he’s an immigrant, but if Trump has shredded the Constitution to the point that we’ve destroyed the 14th and 22nd Amendment.