Trump on Vice President Run: ‘It Wouldn’t be Right’
The left is so convinced Trump won’t go away.
President Donald Trump shot down conspiracy theories about running as vice president.
REPORTER: One theory on how you you might try to serve a third term is that you could run as the vice president.
TRUMP: Yeah, I’d be allowed to do that.
REPORTER: Is it the White House Counsel to your legal position you’d be allowed to do that?
TRUMP: But I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t. I think it’s too cute. Yeah, I would rule that out because it’s too cute. I think the people wouldn’t like that. It’s too cute. It’s not it wouldn’t be right?
‘IT’S TOO CUTE’: President Trump won’t be adding “Vice President” to his résumé anytime soon.
He shuts down the latest theory on how he could run for a third term. pic.twitter.com/EnGNAmHBXC
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 27, 2025
“We have great people. I don’t have to get into that, but we have one of them standing right here. We have JD, obviously. The Vice President is great. Marco is great, I think. I’m not sure if anybody would run against those. I think if they ever formed a group, it would be unstoppable,” Trump said.
“They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. They have AOC’s low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass, like, the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. I took those very hard, they’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against him,” he continued.
“The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six, and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions,” he asserted.
The left and so many talking heads have convinced themselves that Trump would be willing to run for a third term.
Trump has trolled them with Trump 2028 hats and merchandise, which makes me laugh.
So now people are trying to pull the vice president card? Good Lord.
But they all know that Trump drives ratings and online traffic. They don’t want him to go away. He’s good for business!
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These morons need to pace themselves as they’ve still got 7 years of President Trump to survive through 😂😂
Nah. The sooner they all croak the better.
TDS may ead to an outcome worse than COVID shots.
I know that he’s trolling them, but no, he really can’t do that. You have to be eligible to be president in order to be vice president. Two terms, eligibility ends.
I don’t want to pick a fight here, but the 22nd Amendment says that “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice…” not that he cannot serve more than twice. He’s right, it would be too cute by half, but I believe he is eligible to run to be VP.
Disagree. This is why there isn’t a Vice President Obama on the ballot.
No, he is not. The constitution explicitly says that “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice-president”. There is no possible dispute about this; it’s right there in the words.
I suggest that ineligibility to be elected to the office (Amd XXII) is not the same as ineligibility to serve (Amd XII) in the office.
“Ineligible” means “incapable of being elected”. That’s what the word means. The 12th amendment is about being elected, not about serving.
This is the same game that the left uses to push gun control, quoting the 2nd Amendment to mean something that’s obviously against its intent. The language is clear. Trump is ineligible to be Vice President.
Only people “ELECTED to the office of the President” twice are ineligible under the 22nd, If he is elected to the office of the VP and becomes president because something happened to the president, he hasn’t violated the 22nd.
He can’t be elected vice president. “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice-president”.
“Ineligible” means “incapable of being elected”.
“Ineligible” means “incapable of being elected”.
Not in any dictionary I have, And if you find one that includes a reference to “election,” it will be as an ancillary meaning, way down the list. In short, this word can mean a lot of things, and Trump would not be “ineligible” under the ones that appear at the top.
The first definition of “eligible” on dictionary.com is “fit or proper to be chosen; worthy of choice; desirable.”
And the etymology is from Late Latin eligibilis, from Latin eligere to choose, which is where we also get “elect”.
Further, the 12th amendment is all about electing a president and vice president, not about their serving.
Still further, the word “eligible” appears three times in the constitution, and “ineligible” once, and all for times the phrase is “to the office”, not “for the office”, or “to hold the office”. That shows that it refers specifically to the process of election to an office.
A vice-president who succeeds to the presidency before the mid-point of his predecessor’s term, is also explicitly prohibited from running a second time.
If JFK had been assassinated in 1962, LBJ would have been blocked from running in 1968.
No. He can’t run for VP.
I think he will have JD and Marco run and be elected. Then he will be voted in as Speaker of the House. JD and Marco will then resign and the Speaker will become the President. Not a joke.
“Not a joke”
Is that you Biden?
First of all, why would JD and Marco resign? He couldn’t make them.
Second, if that were to happen he would not become president. He would only become acting president until a new president and vice president were elected, in some manner unspecified in the constitution. In practice what would happen is that they’d spend four years fighting over how to elect a new president, so the speaker would act as president for the full four years, but he would never be president. Trump’s ego could never stand being addressed as “Mr Acting President”.
I think you are basically correct, though I don’t see how anybody could argue there should be an election to fill the vacancy. The Framers clearly could have specified such a contingency or it could have been in included in any of the several Amendments dealing with Presidential election and succession. The Office, like that of the VP prior to the 25th Amendment, is simply vacant until the next election.
Except that the constitution’s language is “the Congress may by law provide […] what officer shall then act as president, and such officer shall act accordingly until […] a President shall be elected.”
This could be read to mean “until the next general election”, but then what? As soon as the electoral votes are counted on Jan-6 the person they elect takes over? Until when? Until Jan-20? Or until Jan-20 four years later?
Or does it mean that a special election should somehow be called, in a manner unspecified?
/facepalm/
Some real wishcasting here.
And how will he get elected Speaker? Oof.
How? By persuading the House majority to vote for him. That’s something he can actually do.
But he’d be miserable as speaker, as well as bad at it. The only reason any congressmen in their right mind would elect him speaker would be if he would immediately be propelled into the acting presidency.
But he doesn’t want to be acting president, and as of Jan-20-2029 that’s the most he can ever be.
Trump is running for a third term because otherwise he’s a lame duck. No one listens to a lame duck. Trump keeping 2028 alive is more than trolling, it’s smart politics.
Whether one is a lame duck or not depends on what kind of duck they are. Biden was lame the entire time he lived in the White House. Clinton was lame whenever Hillary was around. Right now it is the Democrats who are doing all the quacking and a number of them are limping pretty bad.
As long as he has a pen and a phone he isn’t a lame duck.
Every president has a pen and a phone, even on the last morning he’s in office. That doesn’t cure his duck legs.
Not every president has been willing or able to use it as often as Trump has. Trump will also have power and influence as long as he commands the MAGA crowd.
It might not stop him from fighting, but he already doesn’t seem to be much capable of changing laws. Maybe that changes soon, maybe he has some weight with Congress right up until Nov of 28.
But he does fight. And that’s why LOTS of people voted for him.
It’s not smart politics, it’s pure trolling. As of January 2027 he’s a lame duck anyway, because everyone knows he no longer has to care about elections. Pretending to be planning a 2028 run, when everyone knows that’s impossible, doesn’t cure the duck’s legs.
What it does do is keep the base energized. And that is part of a lame duck’s problem. So, yes, he is, by definition. But it might not make the difference it usually makes.
Trump clearly isn’t a lame duck, despite being unable to run again. What’s happening now is historically unprecedented. We’re in new territory. I don’t think we’ve ever had a 2nd term president come out swinging like this.
What he should do is have someone submit a constitutional amendment to revoke the amendment limiting the president to 2 terms. That alone will drive them even more bat shit crazy.
He can do that, but it’s impossible for it to pass without Dem votes.
Don’t care if it passes. The progressive heads exploding would be worth it.
No, he wouldn’t. If anyone told him he could technically do that, that person was either lying or such an enormous ignoramus that he shouldn’t be allowed to advise the president. Having been elected president twice, Trump is now ineligible to the presidency and the vice presidency.
Barring a constitutional amendment, which is impossible without Democrat support, the only way he could return to the Oval Office after noon of Jan-20-2029, would be to have the House of Representatives elect him speaker, and then have the president and vice president resign. But that would only making him acting president, never president. His title would be “Mr Acting President”. And his ego could never allow that.
The thing is, he surely knows all this. He’s just having fun trolling the Dems.
Trump is having fun at the expense of the dim witted d/prog who’ve convinced themselves he is their eternal arch enemy destined to persist in tormenting them until the end of days. When his term ends he will go back to Florida and be a doting Grandpa….and why shouldn’t he having defeated his political rivals and if polls hold up keeping/expanding GoP control of Congress in ’26 and very likely congratulating his GoP successor on inauguration day in Jan of ’29..
I agree. Being President cuts into his golf opportunities and he will still be able to play kingmaker.
eternal arch enemy destined to persist in tormenting them until the end of days
Yes, he’s their … well, not anti-Christ, but he’s their anti-something alright.
That’s exactly what EVERY — mind you, EVERY SINGLE DICTATOR EVER said. “I wouldn’t [run]… It’s too cute.”
IMPEACH
Impeach for what? What offense do you allege he’s committed?
The fact is that no matter how much he may want to run, he literally can’t. He can file papers, but he would not appear on any ballot, no electors would vote for him, and Congress wouldn’t count the votes of any electors who did.
It’s the same as claiming he will try to stay past the end of his term, as people have routinely predicted every president since 2000 would do. It’s not just that he wouldn’t want to, it’s that he can’t. At noon on Jan-20-2029 he will no longer be president, and the executive branch will no longer obey his orders. There is nothing he can do to change that, even if he wants to. And he knows that very well. So claiming he plans to do it are just paranoid nonsense.
Switch to decaf after 10am, dude.
LOL. Good one. You forgot your sarc tag, though.
Look, I love how Trump trolls the Democrats, but we can’t have the entire plan be “Trump stays in office forever.” Even if one of these ridiculous schemes worked (“Trump becomes House Speaker and then JD and Marco resign…”) Trump is an old guy, and MAGA has to be about more than him or it will fail the moment he’s gone. There has to be new blood.
Right now my money is on JD Vance. He’s got charisma, hits as hard as Trump, and has shown that he can be a good leader. Pair him with Rubio or some other take-no-shit conservative and you’ve got a strong contender. Plus he has an off switch for his mouth and won’t make as many own-goals as Trump does.