r/worldnews • u/Significant-Colour • 1d ago

China strikes back at Trump with 34 percent tariff — bans rare earth exports to the U.S.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-strikes-back-on-trump-tariffs-bans-rare-earth-exports-to-the-u-s
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u/SaintRanGee 1d ago

Not that you're counting eh? Also, real question, you think he'll die/leave after that time frame, he already muses about more terms, it that something people take seriously?

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u/yung12gauge 1d ago

he's going to live long enough to try, i guarantee it. mean old bastards like him live forever.

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u/DrBix 1d ago

If my history is correct, It would require a 2/3 vote in congress (not sure senate or house or both). That won't happen, and no, he can't use executive power to grant himself another term.

All that being said, assuming we have a country left, he WILL TRY... unless something unexpected happens.

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u/--IIII--------IIII-- 1d ago edited 1d ago

My understanding (attorney) is that he can use executive power to declare a BS emergency (as he has with the 'border invasion' and TdA gang stuff) and he can use that emergency status to suspend elections.

This wouldn't grant him 'another term', just extend the current one. Because of that, it does not run afoul of the amendment. The amendment says you can't be elected more than twice. If he stays via emergency power use (abuse), then it is not unconstitutional.

Because that emergency status declaration will be an official act, although clearly illegal misuse of the power, he would be immune from prosecution for that act.

My belief is that this is what he will do, and the executive unfortunately has the power to do that.

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u/DrBix 1d ago

That scares me more than anything because it means he's either going to start a war to keep in power or some other bullshit excuse, as you pointed out. And the congress ain't going to do shit unless midterms are really really good.

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u/soldiat 1d ago

Why... why did you put that scenario in my brain...

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u/--IIII--------IIII-- 1d ago

Welcome to my world since the National Emergency Act of 1976 which gave Ford this power.

This outcome was inevitable ever since that day. It has only been the fig leaf of formality preventing a corrupt President from abusing this power until now.

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u/Cersad 1d ago

So when he has all those electronic vote tabulators shipped to DC before they're used in elections, that won't have anything to do with the surprising wave of Congressional Republicans winning improbable races and surging to a two-thirds majority.

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u/kjm6351 1d ago

More and more us are praying for the first outcome to come soon every day

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u/mothtoalamp 1d ago

He's already survived multiple attempts on his life, from elderly with COVID to a literal gunman. Doesn't matter if he has dementia (which he probably does) and is massively unhealthy (which he definitely is) - karma isn't getting this guy for us. We're stuck with this.