02/13/2025

Trump’s Third-term Musings Seem More a Tease than a Pledge

A Constitutional amendment makes it illegal for a president to seek a third term

President Donald Trump has just started his second term, his last one permitted under the U.S. Constitution. But he’s already started making quips about serving a third one.

“Am I allowed to run again?” Trump joked during the House Republican retreat in Florida last month. Whether teasing or taunting, it seems to be part of a pattern. Just a week after he won election last fall, Trump suggested in a meeting with House Republicans that he might want to stick around after his second term was over. "I suspect I won't be running again unless you say, 'He's so good we got to figure something else out,'" Trump said to laughs from the lawmakers.

“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” begins the 22nd Amendment, adopted after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected four times in a row. He was last elected in 1944.

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