I know that after you leave office as POTUS it is some sort of unwritten rule that you withdraw from politics.
Why did Trump not withdraw?
Also why isn’t he a senator or congressman during Biden’s term?
Unfortunately political systems are often held together with “tradition” and “gentleman’s agreements”, where conventions dictate how people should behave. Politicians typically followed them because it is seen as the honourable and right thing to do.
However, it seems to be a recent trend among the hard right that politicians just ignore those conventions because:
a) those conventions are inconvenient b) honour means nothing to them, and c) nothing actually enforces those unwritten rules - so there are no consequences for ignoring them
Similar things have happened here in the UK as well. I guess our political systems both assume some degree of good will & trust in its representatives, and it generally turns out that trust is misplaced.
You make a great case for getting rid of implicit rules and making them explicit at least within the current political environment (I mean the resurgence of fascism and other inhuman currents)
Trump actually promised to leave us alone if he lost. He also suggested that he’d move to a foreign country.
“If I lose to [Biden], I don’t know what I’m going to do. I will never speak to you again,” Trump told supporters at a rally in North Carolina.
Trump made similar remarks in 2016 when he rivaled Hillary Clinton for the presidency: “I don’t think I’m going to lose, but if I do, I don’t think you’re ever going to see me again, folks,” Trump said. “I think I’ll go to Turnberry and play golf or something.”
Here’s an article to give you a little more context historically :
But the answer to your question is probably found in the fact that Trump never ran for any other office, much less served. (I could argue he never served as president either, he only took and had others serve him, but that would be bringing “politics” into it.) He ran as an “Outsider,” who was unstained by the inevitable compromises of working with others, who was going to run the country like a business. He did. If you look at how he ran his business affairs, it’s pretty consistent with his presidency.
He’s got a lot of power still in the Republican Party, without having to spend any time working on legislation or living in DC.
He’s trying not to go to prison.
Remember when Obama had a different color suit and they all collectively flipped their shit
*the media tried to convince anyone to give a shit.
FTFY
Obama had a different color suit
Ah yeah the “Barack Obama tan suit controversy” of 2014
In fairness to Trump, he’s been pretty busy defending himself from a record number of indictments. Gets in the way of political participation.
John Quincy Adams went on to become a Representative for MA in the House and I’d argue was the only real demotion post-presidency.
William Taft went to the Supreme Court after his Presidency (not exactly a lateral move in and of itself) but was the Chief Justice so it’s probably close. Then again institutions powers wax and wane over time, so it could be argued that it was a demotion.
Lastly, kind of a bonus factoid of post-presidency activity – Teddy Roosevelt, after serving a term plus some (edit: he took over the presidency as the VP after McKinley’s assassination) and was a Republican. He later ran in 1912 as a candidate for the Bull-Moose Party after a rift in the Republican party when they nominated the above W. Taft instead of himself or another more Progressive Republican.
How is SC seat a demotion? The only real power the president has is wartime, and Americans aren’t fond of war especially if it has a chance to end up at their borders.
Aren’t fond to war? Wtf am I reading??
In addition to the veto power mentioned above, there’s also the power to issue executive orders and to nominate judges, including supreme justices. Those are fairly significant. There’s also the influence they have over foreign policy.
Teddy Roosevelt gets all the glory for his “a man, a plan, a canal: panama” palindrome, but everybody forgets “Taft: fat”.
Why would he want to? Trump only cares about Trump.
He doesn’t need money and has always planned on running for POTUS again. Any other political position would look like a big loss to him.
Troll. No politics intended 🤣🤣🤣👌👍
😭 😭 😭 I really didn’t though
Yet… You attached a Facebook political meme…
Nothing political about saying trump looks like an absolute fool. His spray tan is gross and his hair looks dead
“imagine how Republicans would act…”
Yeah you’re right that picture definitely isn’t political lol
I’m sure we both agree with the message but…pretending it’s not political is foolish
Trump isn’t even a politician.
👌🤣
That’s after you serve your two terms and essentially retire from politics that you don’t get involved. Trump very much wants to return, so he’s involved.
but he isnt involved in the way presidential candidates are usually involved in congress or senate.
He’s very much the presumptive nominee. You don’t need to be a house rep or senator to be the nominee.
I guess he hadn’t taken enough advantages on the side yet, so he decided to try it all again.
Lack of competence, decency, and love for his country?
Imagine conservatives don’t have to get pissy about stuff they made up themselves. After decades of imaginary things, fabricated in their own minds, it’s easy to not take a single thing serious that comes out of their mouths.
One day it will be something real, something serious and dangerous for us all. And nobody will listen to them.
Yeah there is a lot that is going wrong there! especially there used to be at least in the USA the mantra of “I didn’t vote for the guy but he is our president and as such I stand behind him in support” that is completely gone it seems. I know republicans in the past who said things like that to me.
I’d be amazed if he could actually do it without Jill’s help
Imagine how Democrats would feel if Trump did this every day
