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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          Yea but if someone writes on toilet paper it is probably gonna be ripped. So at that point it is worthless unless you like shit on your fingers.

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    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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    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)

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    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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      You know someone already has a AI trained on all his speeches and body language. There will be so many deep fans out there after his death it’ll be like all the Binladen videos that were found of him before seal team 6 found him.

      I imagine the SI videos will all have a simple background of an obvious bathroom wall, where you can tell he’s on the shitter, all the low flow toilet talk will set the location. A bucket KCF next to him with a diet Coke he will do all his greatest hits, the wall, hillary, biden, his dick, how smart he is bc his uncle was a Professor at MIT, he is treated unfairly, ect, ect.

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

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      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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    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

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      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

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        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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        I’m sure a decent amount of people would still vote for him despite him being in jail. If there’s box for him on the ballot, they’d probably even vote him after he died.

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          Some of these people still struggle with object permanence though. There will be no rallies, softball interviews, debates, etc. he will just fade away in their minds.

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    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.

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      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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      His voters will vote for him even if he was dead and mummified. A Trump holographic AI could probably have a chance in 2028!

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      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

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    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.

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      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.

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        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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          Well, if he continues on the current slope, Trump will not be able to fabricate anything much longer. Even Fox “News” has problems loving him anymore. The third “piller of reality” will take a bit longer to fall, true.

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            If he wins he won’t ever let go of power. When you’re president, they (the supreme court) let you do it.

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              I suppose it’s possible, with 4 years of unchecked power and the project 2025 guys working for him they might be able to figure it out :/

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                There is no supposing. JD Vance is already saying once he is VP he will not certify the election if Trump loses again.

                Don’t forget SCOTUS says he can’t be stopped by anything but impeachment.

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            Is there any past comment or behavior that would suggest Trump wouldn’t run for a third term, if given the chance?

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

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    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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      Because he thinks he won and the election was stolen, not that he lost to Biden. (I wish I could put a /s on this, but I think it may be too close to the truth)