Donald Trump just spelled out his dreams of making America great again, and again, and again.
The president issued the ominous warning at a breakfast meeting with Republican senators at the White House. He told the reluctant GOP lawmakers that if they nuked the filibuster and took full power in D.C., they should be able to keep the Democrats out of power forever.
“If we do what I’m saying, they’ll never—they’ll most likely never—attain power,” he said.
“Because we will have passed every single thing that you can imagine,” he added.
The filibuster is a Senate rule that allows a minority to block most legislation by extending debate indefinitely, representing a key and perhaps, for now, one of the only weapons in the Senate Democrats’ arsenal for opposing the Republican agenda.
Ending the filibuster rule would allow the biggest party to pass almost any law with a simple majority of 51 votes. With 53 senators, that would give the GOP unprecedented power.
Trump suggested Wednesday that such a move would cement Republican dominance and make it almost impossible for Democrats to regain power. It is unclear if he was threatening to legislate to reshape democratic structures in his favor permanently.
“All these things are good,” the president mused. “We have to be able to get the word out. We don’t get the word out, we’re making a very big mistake.”
The MAGA leader’s desire for change comes as he repeatedly refuses to rule out running for a third White House term in violation of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.
“I would love to do it,” the already two-term serving president told reporters last month, despite the text of the Constitution clearly stating, “No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.”
