Trump’s former top advisor Steve Bannon has been quietly plotting a 2028 presidential bid, according to Axios.
Bannon, 72, has told allies he wants to shape the Republican agenda by uniting GOP lawmakers on key issues through an eventual campaign for the White House, insiders told the outlet.
They said Bannon wants to champion an ‘America First’ outlook including a non-interventionist foreign policy, economic populism and opposition to ‘Big Tech’.
However, the MAGA diehard has vehemently denied the rumors as ‘bulls***’, while saying he is focused on supporting a third run for President Donald Trump instead – even though this would break with the US Constitution.
‘We don’t have a country if we don’t get every ounce of fight and energy from President Trump,’ Bannon told Axios this weekend.
‘You can drive a Mack Truck through the 22nd Amendment – and that’s exactly what I intend to do in order to save our country.’
The former White House chief strategist added that he’s even giving expert insight for an upcoming book on how Trump could run again.
Titled ‘Could President Trump Constitutionally Serve a Third Term?’, the book by lawyer Alan Dershowitz aims to provide a legal argument for how Trump could serve a third term within the limits of the US Constitution.
Trump’s former top advisor Steve Bannon has allegedly been plotting a 2028 presidential bid
Bannon has told allies he wants to shape the Republican agenda by uniting GOP lawmakers on key issues, per Axios (Pictured: Trump speaks on the phone in January 2017 while then-chief strategist Bannon, shown right, sits alongside then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn)
The Daily Mail has contacted Bannon and the White House for comment.
It comes after both Trump and Bannon were pictured appearing close with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in the latest release of the Epstein files by Congress.
Bannon is shown in one image sitting with the late pedophile in his New York City townhouse, while Trump was shown in several photographs.
Epstein and Bannon had a professional relationship during 2018 and 2019, when Bannon provided the financier with media coaching as he attempted to rehabilitate his public image.
The photos do not implicate any of the individuals in Epstein’s crimes.
Bannon has been vocal about his plan to break with convention by making Trump president again in 2028.
During an interview with The Economist in October, Bannon spelled out in plain terms that team Trump has strategized how to keep him in the White House.
He previously teased the idea that the president could evade the 22nd amendment – which limits people from being elected president more than twice.
Bannon has told allies he wants to shape the Republican agenda by uniting GOP lawmakers on key issues through an eventual campaign for the White House, according to Axios
The MAGA diehard has vehemently denied the rumors, calling them ‘bulls***’ while saying he is focused on supporting a third run for President Donald Trump instead – even though this would break with the 22nd Amendment of the US Constitution
‘At the appropriate time we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ’28,’ he said.
When questioned about Constitutional law, Bannon reassured the interviewers that there were ways around it.
‘There’s many different alternatives. At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan.’
Bannon is certain that the president will win re-election in 2028 no matter who the Democrats run.
‘He’s gonna get a third term. Trump is gonna be president in ’28, and people just sort of [need to] get accommodated with that,’ Bannon said.
Trump has teased the idea of running for a third term, but he has not outlined any concrete plans to do so.
He mused about being a ‘three-term president’ during a National Rifle Association event in May.
The 22nd Amendment of the US Constitution, introduced 1951, prohibits presidents for running more than two total terms.
The rule states that ‘no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice’ and ‘no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once.’
Since Trump was 45th President of the United States from 2016 to 2020 and has been the 47th President since 2024, he will have maxed out the tenure by 2028.
