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CNN Contributor—Trump Foreign Policy Shows He's Not Planning To Leave White House!
On Wednesday's CNN This Morning, Democrat strategist Antjuan Seawright, commenting on President Trump's Venezuela operation and his comments about Greenland, said:
"I don't think this is the posture of someone who's planning to leave the White House in three years because he's been very aggressive about his foreign policy approach, and taking over countries."
Aggressive foreign policy = determination to remain in power? Non sequitur much, Antjuan?
Logicians would classify Seawright's statement as a logical fallacy. And Seawright offered no evidence in support of his claim other than Trump's foreign policy. Seawright's accusation is more a reflection of how Trump has taken up permanent residency in liberal minds than anything connected to reality.
As they approach the end of their time in office, presidents often take bold actions in hopes of building a legacy. A recent one even despoiled a public park to erect a hideous monument to himself!
True, Trump has in the past teased the possibility of staying on, but his most recent statements are quite definitive in ruling out any such notion, as reported in this CNN article:
“I would say that if you read it, [the Constitution] it’s pretty clear, I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad. But we have a lot of great people.”
Trump continues to demonstrate impressive vitality, the latest example being his rapid-fire give-and-take in his press conference after the Maduro extraction.
Even so, my two cents say that it's unlikely that an 82-year-old Trump would be in a position to consider another run in 2028—even if he wanted to.
Note: Host Audie Cornish had assembled an all-anti-Trump Group Chat. In addition to Seawright, there was Never Trumper Charlie Dent, and Garrett Graff, who we recently caught analogizing ICE to the Gestapo!
Here's the transcript.
CNN This Morning
1/7/26
6:05 am ET
AUDIE CORNISH: So, with this war powers vote, I mean, you guys help me, you're my congressional people. Is this for show? Is this so lawmakers can kind of get up and register dismay but not actually stop the White House?
ANTJUAN SEAWRIGHT: Well, you can't undo the action. And this president has simply ignored the congressional powers throughout the second term of the presidency.
But I will tell you, drill, baby, drill was certainly a loud part of the Trump platform as a candidate when he ran for reelection. So no one should be surprised --
CORNISH: People thought he'd been Alaska but --
SEAWRIGHT: Sure, yeah, but also people did not expect him to be so aggressive and everything he's done and certainly ignore the rule of law which he has consistently done. But I will also say,this idea that some in the conservative world believe this was about drugs is just silly and foolishness, considering that Mexico, and what they do with fentanyl, and the fact that he was able to, that he pardoned the former Honduran leader. I think this is very consistent with Trump being Trump, and this is all about Trump.
And I will finally add, I don't think this is the posture of someone who's planning to leave the White House in three years, because he's been very aggressive about his foreign policy approach and taking over countries. I think that's very unprecedented.
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CORNISH: So there's a lot of people who say, like, look, they're not going to go to the mat for Maduro, right? Like, that's just not a hill they want to die on.