President For Life ?

[toucana]

Trump - Xi JinPing

He's now president for life. President for life. No, he's great - And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day."

In the closed-door remarks, a recording of which was obtained by CNN, Trump praised China's President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power and extending his potential tenure, musing he wouldn't mind making such a maneuver himself.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remarks/index.html

The remarks, delivered inside the ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago estate during a lunch and fundraiser, were upbeat, lengthy, and peppered with jokes and laughter.

Seems like #45 now has his sights set on the XXII amendment.

[Serpent]

Who didn't see that coming?
The minute he won, he started campaigning for the next election - and has never let the actual job get in the way of his on-going campaign.

[wolfhnd]

It was a joke.

[Serpent]

Until it came to pass.

[zetreque]

I can't wait until this president that speaks like a 4th grader is gone so we don't have to put up with so much political mumbojumbo any longer on a science philosophy forum.

[toucana]

Wolfhnd wrote:

It was a joke.

That's what many people said about Adolf Hitler in 1933.

[Braininvat]

It's just a reality of being President, that there are some jokes you should hold back. Threats to the Constitution would fall into that category. Especially when you advocate violating the Constitution on a weekly basis.

[Lomax]

First as comedy, then as tragedy.

[Serpent]

You don't have to go there. Just look at Trump's own history of "jokes".

[Braininvat]

The Marx quote is "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce."

Mel Brooks seemed to understand that.

Or at least he understood, "tragedy + time = comedy."

[Serpent]

But you have to remember the compression of time; at the logical extreme, it folds back on itself.
Everything goes so much faster now that celebrities perform self-parody even before they become celebrities.

[Lomax]

The Marx quote is "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce."

I know. We know more history than he did.

[toucana]

The Marx quote is "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce."

Karl or Groucho ?

[Braininvat]

You wouldn't guess it from his film appearances, but Harpo was the real intellectual of the family.