Despite the constitutional restrictions, Trump said he is seeking a way to serve his third term
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that “I’m not kidding” trying to appoint a third term, a way he is considering violations of constitutional barriers to prevent continuing to lead the country after the end of his second term in early 2029.
“There are some ways to do it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News, adding: “It’s too early to consider.”
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Maybe run as vice president?
NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Trump if a potential avenue for the third term is Vice President JD Vance running for the top job and then “and then pass the baton to you.”
“Okay, that’s one,” Trump replied. “But there are other things. There are others.”
“Can you tell me another?” Welk asked in an early morning interview, spending his day on a nearby golf course before Trump left his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
“No,” Trump replied.
Vance’s office did not immediately respond to the Associated Press’ request for comment.
Derek Muller, professor of electoral law at Notre Dame, pointed out that the 12th Amendment, ratified in 1804, said: “No one is constitutionally ineligible for the presidential office and shall not be eligible for the vice president of the United States.”
Mueller said this shows that if Trump is not eligible to run for president again due to the 22nd Amendment, he is not eligible to run for vice president.
“I don’t think there is any ‘a weird trick’ to address the presidency limit,” he said.
Furthermore, pursuing a third term will require special acquiescence from federal and state officials, not to mention the courts and voters themselves.
Mueller advised Trump to talk about his third term for political reasons to “express as much power as possible.”
“There are incentives in the world for a lame president like Donald Trump to seem like he is not a lame duck,” he said.
‘I like work’
Trump, who will be 82 at the end of his second term, was asked if he wanted to continue to work in “the hardest job in the country.”
The president said, “Okay, I love working.”
He suggested that the Americans would continue their third term due to his popularity. He wrongly claimed that “there are the highest number of polls among any Republican in the past 100 years.”
According to Gallup data, then-President George W. Bush reached a 90% approval rate after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. His father, President George HW Bush, reached 89% after the 1991 Gulf War.
Trump made the most profit at 47% in Gallup data for the second semester, despite claiming to be “at the height of the 70s in many polls.”
He once thought about having a term of more than two, usually making jokes about friendly audiences.
“Can I run again?” he said, the Republican retreat in January.
Representatives of Congress leaders – Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer – did not immediately respond to AP’s request for comment.
