How could Trump run for a third term? The 22nd establishes a limit of being elected twice, once if he serves more than two years of an unexpired term.

The thread was talking about the very remote strategies where Trump might try to secure a third term without having to get elected: standing up either one or two loyalists as the nominal candidates, while he himself either is the VP candidate or Speaker of the House who will assume office when they resign after the election. The other possibility, of course, is amending the 22nd Amendment itself, though that is next to impossible.

I was pointing out that even these remote strategies (incredibly unlikely as they are) are only possible if Trump is popular enough that he would win a third term if the 22nd Amendment weren't there to stop him from running. If he weren't popular enough to win on his own, he wouldn't be popular enough to propel a loyalist stand-in to victory.