Trump Jokes About Canceling Elections in Wartime

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/wartime-elections-donald-trump/2025/08/18/id/1222946/

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  1. > In homage to a past point of pressure on Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump joked about the possibility of suspending U.S. elections during wartime.

    > “You say during the war you can’t have elections?” Trump said to Zelenskyy during a joint Oval Office press availability Monday. “Let me just say, 3 1/2 years from now — so you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? I wonder what the fake news will say.”

    Don’t discard the possibility of Trump using “national emergency” like “crimes in cities” or something to delay the elections. This is serious shit. South Korean leader tried it and people there hit the streets and it was over within a night and if I’m not wrong he’s in jail.

  7. He’s not joking. This is how he normalizes the things he wants to do.

  9. Where is the joke, he just said “that’s good”. Stop sane washing his deluded behavior

  13. This isn’t a joke in any way, he’s testing the pushback.

  15. ….. is he already laying the groundwork for 2028?

  16. Trump is oblivious to the fact that only Congress can officially declare war. Even then there’s no basis or clause that would allow that. In WWII there was a Presidential election in 1944 with FDR against Dewey and that was the last officially declared war (8 December 1941).

  17. Testing the waters.

    Already seeing how people react to the National Guard arresting citizens.

    Now seeing (again) how the media and citizens react to him saying he won’t leave office.

    Spoiler: He is 100% not leaving office (even if there is an election).

    He learned that nobody, judges, AG’s, etc will hold him accountable.

    That ship sailed. He should have been on trial within months of Jan 6.

    He should have been arrested within hours of stealing classified documents.

    He should have been sentenced for being found guilty on 34 felonies.

    Every guard rail failed, and he’s definitely not leaving. Mark my word.

  18. He’s a weak leader and administrator. No other US president has had to suspend voting during wartime. In fact, the US has been in armed conflict more often than it hasn’t for most of its history.

  19. Trump is not joking he will start a war to stay on the throne

  20. Elections for federal office are actually state elections conducted by state officials using state resources pursuant to state law.

    As such, the federal executive has no power to “cancel elections” irrespective of any “war”.

  21. >In homage to a past point of pressure on Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump joked about the possibility of suspending U.S. elections during wartime.

    >”You say during the war you can’t have elections?” Trump said to Zelenskyy during a joint Oval Office press availability Monday. “Let me just say, 3 1/2 years from now — so you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections?

    >”I wonder what the fake news will say.”

    >”You like this idea,” Zelenskyy said, smiling and laughing in a marked change in demeanor from his past visit with Trump in the Oval Office in February.

    Trump just found another potential plan to stay in office past 2028. And a bunch of fools with say ‘it was just a joke.’

  23. We need to be crystal clear here… he is NOT fucking joking. Trump doesn’t joke, he rapes kids.

  25. At this point you have to be delusional to believe he won’t do anything to hold power. He is placing loyalists at every level of government. We have passed authoritarianism and moving into totalalism. The US stopped being a democracy a few months ago.

  26. Fucking newsmax? Really? Why not just link to a KKK or Proud Boys flier?

  27. Yeah, not clicking on Newsmax or any other corporate media

  28. Did we really have to source newsmax, of all outlets?

    Didn’t they just settle with the voting machine company for a shit load of money for lying for the trump admin?

  29. Anyone got a link other than Newsmax? No way in fuck I’m giving them traffic.

  30. Testing the waters again.

    Take this extremely seriously. He’ll do anything to save his own skin.

  31. Fuck you Newsmax! It’s a joke to you because you support this fascist piece of shit. This is *exactly* the “outline of the plan” for 2028. Everyone wants to wait this out and it’s the worst fucking thing we can do…

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