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Published 09:29 19 Aug 2020 GMT
Displaying the kind of brash statement-making that helped him blast his way to the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump has declared that he already has designs on extending his stay in the White House for the long haul.
Yes, during a rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on Monday, Trump said with some optimism, "We are going to win four more years.
"And then after that, we'll go for another four years because they spied on my campaign. We should get a redo of four years."
Watch Donald Trump wear a face mask in public for the first time in this video:
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There's just one spanner in the works of 'Donald Trump and the case of the third term' (incidentally my least favorite Harry Potter book name), and unfortunately for the 74-year-old golf enthusiast it's a big one: the constitution.
The constitution limits presidents to serving two terms - though as CNN points out, Trump could technically run again in 2024 if he were to lose the 2020 election.
During the same rally, Trump touted the success of the economy before the coronavirus pandemic struck, highlighting the successes of students who attended "crumby colleges", as well as "dumb people".
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Later during a stop in Michigan, per Rolling Stone, Trump regaled onlookers with an oft-debunked story he is fond of repeating. “I was ‘Man of the Year’ 11 years ago in Michigan. I don’t know why but they picked me,” said the President.
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Unfortunately for the president, though, the now infamous story of his being 'man of the year' in Michigan has been poured over by so many news outlets and fact checkers as to have passed into infamy.
“Since 2016, Trump has claimed that he received Michigan’s ‘Man of the Year’ award, and no one in Michigan seems to know what he is talking about,” the Detroit News wrote back in 2019.
"We scoured news archives and searched the internet, and came up empty. Other media outlets have looked into it too, with a similar lack of results. And Trump’s campaign isn’t commenting," FactCheck.org wrote in a piece on the matter in August of the same year.
So while the dubious Michigan 'man of the year' in fact might never have won the honor at all, much like his erroneous statement on serving a third term, it hardly seems to matter to a president who appears to have lost his footing on the grounding of fact long ago.
