You seriously cannot make this up.
RINO Don Bacon — yes, the same Nebraska “Republican” who just announced he’s retiring from Congress because the work is too grueling — now says he’s thinking about running for President of the United States in 2028.
Bacon wrote in X that he no longer has the hunger for the hard work of running for Congress.
Apparently, working 14-hour days and spending four days a week in D.C. is just too much for ol’ Don.
In a statement posted to X, Bacon wrote:
“Some like to spin my retirement from Congress to fit their own wishes. I’m retiring from Congress in 2027 to spend more time with family & home. I don’t want to do 14-hour days & DC 4 days a week anymore, which is what it takes to win this purple seat.”
Some like to spin my retirement from Congress to fit their own wishes. I’m retiring from Congress in 2027 to spend more time with family & home. I don’t want to do 14-hour days & DC 4 days a week anymore, which is what it takes to win this purple seat. https://t.co/ULKfYXHWr9
— Rep. Don Bacon ✈️️⭐️️ (@RepDonBacon) July 5, 2025
So what does a guy do when he’s tired of his actual job in Congress? According to Don Bacon: run for Governor. Or President.
“I got asked the other day, ‘You say you’re interested in being an executive — is that governor or president?’ I go, ‘Yes,’” Bacon told NBC News.
“If there’s an opportunity and I can make a difference, a unique difference, I would like to keep serving. I just don’t want to do two-year elections.”
The guy who quit Congress because it’s too demanding now thinks he’s cut out for the White House. Apparently, running the country would be a lot more relaxing than representing Nebraska’s 2nd District.
Even more ridiculous? Bacon admits it would be “incredibly difficult” to win the presidency as a former House member. But don’t worry — he says he has a “vision” and a “heart to serve.”
To top it off, Bacon floated the idea of being Defense Secretary — if “God opens that door.”
NBC News reported:
Bacon, 61, acknowledged that it’d be incredibly difficult to run for the White House as a current or former House member — James Garfield was successful way back in 1880. And Bacon said he’s not sure his brand of Republicanism — Reaganism and a muscular view of foreign policy — can ever make a full comeback in the party, though he said he will continue making the case for it.
“I don’t think it would be very easily done,” he said. “All I know is I have a heart to serve our country, and I have a vision.”
Defense secretary is another option “if God opens up that door,” he said, though he’s not sure a Republican president would nominate him. He said he would not run against incumbent Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, a fellow Republican and close friend who took office in 2023.
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Bacon lamented that running in a tough battleground district every two years was an exhausting endeavor, and that he didn’t have “the fire in my belly” to win a sixth race.
“This job requires a 14-hour day during the week, Saturdays, parades and a variety of things, and Sunday sometimes. And do I want to do this for two more years? I just didn’t have the hunger to want to work at that intensity level,” said Bacon, who has a large pig figurine sitting on his desk. “And my wife has wanted me to come home. I’m gone to D.C. four days a week, and I have a chance to be home now seven days a week, and I have eight grandkids within 10 minutes of my house.”
Bacon said he thinks he could have won re-election had he run, even though the party that controls the White House typically loses House seats in a president’s first midterm election.
