Aides to former President Donald Trump laughed off a rumor that he would run for a House seat in 2022 because it is a “real job” that requires actual work.
In February, Steve Bannon floated the idea of Trump running for the House in 2022, becoming Speaker then leading the charge to impeach President Joe Biden.
Trump was pitched on the idea when he appeared on far-right radio host Wayne Allyn Root’s show last month.
“Instead of waiting for 2024, and I’m hoping you’ll run in 2024, but why not run in 2022 for the United States Congress? A House seat in Florida. Win big. Lead us to a dramatic landslide victory. Take the House by 50 seats,” Root asked Trump. “Then you become the Speaker of the House, lead the impeachment of Biden and start criminal investigations against Biden. You’ll wipe him out for this last two years.”
Trump called the idea “very interesting.”
But, according to an excerpt from Michael Wolff’s upcoming book, “Landslide: Final days of the Trump Presidency” published in the Times of London, aides dismissed the idea because Trump is too lazy.
“For Trump aides though, this was risible,” Wolff wrote. “Speaker of the House is a ‘real job,’ and Trump in no way, is going to actually work.”
Trump himself would later dismiss the idea of running for a House seat in 2022.
Still, the Constitution does not require that the Speaker of the House be an elected member.
