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Sure. I mean, in this context it's probably more trolling than that. Why test the waters in a room full of people who despise you? But that's completely immaterial to whether this story is true. If the headline was "Trump indicates for the nth time he really wants a third term", that would at least be defensible. It says that he has announced a re-election bid. He has not.
To the people downvoting, the point is that the headline is misleading. No one is saying that Trump's statements are ok
For example, these previous incidents were not announcements either. It's a BAD thing that he keeps making statements like this, jokes or not, but there's still a difference between announcing a re-election bid and testing the water with "jokes".
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-jokes-running-third-term-speech-house-republicans-rcna189530
Jan 2025
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-trump-has-said-about-pursuing-a-third-term/
Dec 2025
Yes, you are technically right about that. But it doesn't change the more important point.
About Trump? I doubt we have any disagreement about that. Not about who he is, what he is, what he wants, or how he behaves.
The only question I'm really asking here is: why is the reporting from this single Australian news organization so wildly out of step with every other news organization on the planet?