Former President Donald Trump has officially stated that should he lose the November election, he will not be running for office again in 2028. Given how old he would be at that point in time, I don’t think anyone can blame him for not wanting to deal with all of this madness again in four years. Especially after two assassination attempts. It’s a lot to deal with.
The remarks were made during an interview with Sharyl Atkisson on her “Full Measure” program, which aired on Sunday.
“If you’re not successful this time, do you see yourself running again in four years?” Atkisson asked the former president.
“No, I don’t. No, I don’t,” Trump stated clearly. “I think that that will be, that will be it. I don’t see that at all.” Doesn’t really seem like he’s leaving any room for changing his mind either. Again, it’s understandable. Most normal people would call it a day at that point as well.
Check out further details from The Daily Wire:
Trump said that he does not think that it will come to that because he believes that he will be successful with his current campaign. Polls currently show a very tight race between Trump and Harris that is going to come down to just a handful of swing states where there is little distance between the two candidates in the polls.
Trump says he won’t run for office in 2028 if he doesn’t win the election in 2024.
"I think that that will be, that will be it. I don't see that at all. I think that hopefully we're gonna be successful." pic.twitter.com/bm6fsltaAH
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 22, 2024
“Trump, 78, had been the GOP standard bearer since 2016, and if he did hypothetically vie again in four years, he’d be older than President Biden, 81 — who is the oldest president in US history,” The New York Post reported.
“I was a very consequential president, and would certainly be, and maybe even more so this time,” Trump proclaimed during the interview. “I understand countries, I understand who rips us and who doesn’t.”
The former president then said that while it would have been easier to implement the MAGA agenda if he had two consecutive terms, there were some benefits to not having them back-to-back.
“But the benefit is more than anything else, it shows how bad they were. It shows how bad this radical left liberal crazy philosophy is,” Trump told Atkisson.
Very few presidents have attempted a nonconsecutive additional term in office, including Martin Van Buren, Millward Fillmore, Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt. Grover Cleveland is the only one who wound up serving two non-consecutive terms, which he did from 1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897. Trump had also been poised for the first presidential rematch since the 1950s contests between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson. But ultimately, Biden dropped out of the race in July, just before officially receiving the Democratic nomination.
Again, with two attempts on his life in just two months during this election cycle, I can’t really say I blame Trump for wanting to be done with all of this. Plus, it seems his children, Eric and Don Jr., have political aspirations as well and both of them are young and can carry the MAGA mantle on behalf of their dad.