President Donald Trump said on Sunday (3) that he does not rule out the idea of searching for a third term at the White House, although the American constitution prohibits the president to fulfill more than two periods.
Trump stated that “there are ways” for a third term, and said, “It is not joking”. “Many people want to do it. But … my thinking is that we have a long way. I focus on the current,” the president said in an interview with NBC News Kristeen Welker.
Welker mentioned a possible plan in which Vice President JD Vance will compete in 2028 and then “pass the stick” to Trump. “Well, this is one. But there are others too,” the president said.
You know what the constitution says
The twenty -second amendment to the constitution, which was ratified in 1951:
No one will be elected to the position of the president more than twice, nor no person will be elected from the position of president, or working as a president, for more than two years of the mandate that another person has been elected to the position of the president more than once.
US constitution
Trump often makes provocations for a third state. At a gathering in Nevada in January, he said that “it will be the greatest honor in my life to serve, not one, but two, three or four times,” apparently playing. He explained later: “No, the service will be twice. During the next four years, I will not rest.”
After weeks, Trump asked supporters during an event of black history in the White House if he should compete again, causing “four other years!”
Steve Bannon, one of the main president’s allies, suggested that Trump is qualified, because the constitutional amendment does not specify “successive” mandates.
In the House of Representatives, the deputy of Andy Eugelis, a Republican in Tennessee, made legislation to start the long amendment process in the text of the twenty -second amendment and allow the president who corresponds to the absence of consecutive mandates to rule for a period of four years.
The cancellation or change of the twenty -second amendment will require two -thirds of votes in the House of Representatives and the Senate and ratify three quarters of the states.
No amendment has been ratified since the 1990s, when an amendment was approved for the first time in the eighteenth century. Before that, the twenty -sixth amendment was ratified in the sixties during the Vietnam era when there was active recruitment.
Even some of Trump supporters oppose the idea of changing the constitution.
The Republican Senator at Oklahoma Marcin Molin said that Trump’s comments are “a joke, not literal”.
“I will not change the constitution, first and foremost, unless the American people choose to do so,” he said. Mullen, all other Republicans and many Democrats will have to obtain two -thirds of the Senate’s votes to start changing the constitution.
The only president to serve more than two periods was Franklin de Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945. He was elected for a fourth period, but he died after months, victims of brain bleeding. The amendment 22 was ratified in 1951, in the years after the death of Roosevelt.
Michael and Damman, President and CEO of the Brennan Justice Center for New York University, said, CNN last month.
At the end of his second term, in January 2029, Trump will be the oldest and seven -month -old presidency, bypassing his predecessor Joe Biden. Biden was 82 and two months old when he left his position.
