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bahmboo ◴[] No.45660320[source]
"The president and I want to get to the moon in this president's term" - Sean Duffy NASA administrator.

A scary way to set a schedule on a complex project with lives at stake. They don't care though.

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jm4 ◴[] No.45660957[source]
The silver lining is that they are operating under the assumption that he will leave office at the conclusion of his term.
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sigmoid10[dead post] ◴[] No.45661073[source]
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cyberge99 ◴[] No.45661164[source]
Which will backfire spectacularly when Obama is re-elected.
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1. evan_ ◴[] No.45662542[source]
If they do this approach they will surely say that the constitutional limit is two consecutive terms, and since Trump's two terms were non-consecutive, he's still eligible to run again.
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2. qingcharles ◴[] No.45663342[source]
They already did, 9 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45663333

3. simondotau ◴[] No.45664921[source]
No, the approach will be to put Trump second on a ticket as vice president, and then have the top name on the ticket abdicate on day one.

The constitution says he can’t be elected president, but on an extremely pedantic reading, it doesn’t say he can’t be elected vice president.