West Palm Beach, Florida – President Donald Trump said on Sunday, “I am not joking” about an attempt to spend a third term, and he made it clear that he is considering ways to violate a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after the end of his second term in early 2029, “said President Donald Trump on Sunday.
“There are ways you can do,” Trump said in an interview on a phone with NBC News.
He also said, “It is too early to think about it.”
“No person may be elected to the president’s office more than twice,” says the twenty -second amendment, which was added to the constitution in 1951 after President Franklin de Roosevelt was elected four times in a row.
Kristen Wilker asked NBC: Whether one of the possible ways to a third term is JD Vance Vice President to get the higher job and “then pass the stick to you.”
“Well, this is one,” Trump answered. “But there are others too. There are others.”
“Can you tell me another?” Wilker asked in an interview in the early morning, before Trump left his resort from Mar Lago to spend today at the nearby golf course.
“No,” Trump answered.
Vans’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Associated Press.
President Donald Trump speaks during the oath at the Alina Hapba party as a temporary public lawyer in New Jersey, at the White House Oval Office, March 28, 2025.
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Derek Muller, a professor of election law in Notre Dame, pointed out that the twelfth amendment, which was ratified in 1804, says: “No person will be unconstitutional to the President’s office qualified for the Vice President of the United States.”
Muller said that if Trump is not eligible to run for the presidency again due to the twenty -second amendment, he is not eligible to run for the vice president as well.
“I don’t think there is any” single strange trick “to wander around the boundaries of the presidential period,” said Muller.
In addition, the follow -up of a third term will require an extraordinary fall by federal and state officials, not to mention the courts and voters themselves.
He suggested that Trump is talking about a third term for political reasons “to show as much strength as possible.”
He said: “The head of lame inflammatory, such as Donald Trump, has every incentive in the world to make him seem to be a lame duck.”
Trump, who would be 82 at the end of his second term, was asked whether he wanted to continue working on the “most difficult job in the country” at that point.
“Well, I love to work,” the president said.
He suggested that the Americans will communicate with a third term because of his popularity. He falsely claimed that “the highest survey numbers in any Republic over the past 100 years.”
Gallup data shows that President George W. Bush reaches a 90 % approval rate after the attacks on September 11, 2001. His father, President George HW Bush, reached 89 % after the Gulf War in 1991.
The Trump number reached 47 % in Gallup’s data during his second term, although the claim that “in the upper seventies in many opinion polls, in real polls.”
Trump had previously thought about providing a longer period of two periods before, in general with jokes to the friendly masses.
“Is I allowed to run again?” He said during a Republican decline in the House of Representatives in January.
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