DONALD TRUMP

New Republic - Speaking before the House Republican Conference on Wednesday, the 78-year-old soon-to-be forty-seventh president openly joked about running for a third term, telling the crowd that they could “figure something else out.”

“I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say he’s so good we got to figure something else out,” Trump said while laughing, according to the Associated Press’s Farnoush Amiri. That would, of course, be a flagrant violation of the Constitution, which has stipulated since 1951—after President Franklin D. Roosevelt served a whopping four terms—that presidents cannot be elected for more than two terms. Previously, the two-term limit had been an unofficial precedent set by George Washington.

Alternet -  In a recent interview with the New Republic's Greg Sargent, New Yorker reporter Susan Glasser described how what she saw while covering the Putin regime in Russia could also happen in the U.S. as Trump prepares to be inaugurated for his final term. She warned that the president-elect is "very likely to move very, very rapidly to create new facts on the ground while his opponents are just busy fighting with each other over their ideological priors." She also cautioned that based on her personal experience as a former journalist reporting from Russia, Americans should expect many similarities between the second Trump administration and Putin's government.

"My husband and I were correspondents [in Russia] in the first few years of Putin’s term, and Putin moved with extraordinary speed and focus to dismantle the fledgling institutions of Russian democracy," she said. "That has been the template and the playbook for other would-be authoritarians who are working within a democratic system."

Borowitz Report - Urging him “not to take that freaking job,” on Wednesday Rudolph Giuliani warned Rep. Matt Gaetz that Donald J. Trump never pays his attorneys.  “I know what you’re thinking—'I’ll get paid millions and then I’ll be swimming in hooch and broads,’” the former New York mayor said. “Not gonna happen!” 

“When Trump cans your ass—and he will—you’ll be in the Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot with me drinking Two-Buck Chuck straight from the bottle.”