Pete Buttigieg: If Donald Trump Won't Leave White House, He Can 'Do Chores'
In part due to President Donald Trump’s own handling of the subject, many Americans have expressed fears that if he soundly loses the 2020 election, he won’t leave the office willingly.
If that happens, Pete Buttigieg has a plan: He’ll put Trump to work ― doing chores around the White House.
During a town hall in Reno, Nevada, in advance of the state’s Saturday caucuses, the Democratic presidential candidate was asked what he would do if he beat Trump in November and the president insisted the results were a hoax and he refused to step down.
Buttigieg’s initial response: “I guess if he’s willing to do chores, I guess we could work something out.”
He then explained that Americans who didn’t want Trump to have a second term had a duty to vote in November.
“I think we want to set a goal of winning big enough that this election is way beyond cheating distance, and that Trumpism goes into the history books too,” he said. “It’s got to be a win so big that Senate Republicans are reunited with their consciences, and only a political shockwave can do that.”
You can see the exchange here:
Trump, seemingly in jest, has more than once broached the prospect of blowing off the two-term limit for presidents that was officially added to the Constitution through the 22nd amendment in 1951. In a Twitter post last June, he rhetorically wondered whether “the people would demand that I stay longer?”
.....news is that at the end of 6 years, after America has been made GREAT again and I leave the beautiful White House (do you think the people would demand that I stay longer? KEEP AMERICA GREAT), both of these horrible papers will quickly go out of business & be forever gone!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2019
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