West Palm Beach, Florida – President Donald Trump said on Sunday that “I’m not kidding” about attempts to take the third term, the most crucial tip that he considers the ways of violating the constitutional barrier against continuing the country after his second term at the beginning of 2029.
“There are methods that can be done,” Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News with Mar-A-Lago, his private club.
Later, he developed Air Force One reporters from Florida to Washington that “I had more people asking me for the third term, which in a sense is the fourth term, because other elections, elections in 2020 were completely falsified.” Trump lost this election to the democrat Joe Biden.
Despite this, Trump added: “I don’t want to talk about the third term now, because no matter how you look at it, we have a lot of time.”
22. AmendmentAdded to Constitution in 1951 After President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times in a row, he says: “No person will be elected to the President’s office more than twice.”
Any attempt to stay in office would be legally suspicious and it is not clear how seriously Trump can implement this idea. The comments, however, were an extraordinary reflection of the desire to keep power by the president, who four years ago violated democratic traditions when he tried to repeal the election he lost in Biden.
“This is another escalation in its clear effort to take over the government and break our democracy,” said the statement of Rep. Daniel Goldman, a New York Democrat, who was the main adviser to Trump’s first impeachment. “If the Republicans of the Congress believe in the constitution, they will be calculated to Trump’s ambition for the third term.”
Steve Bannon, a former Trump strategist, which runs the right -wing “War Room” podcast, called the president to restart during a speech at a conservative political action conference last month.
“We want Trump in ’28,” he said.
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Kayla Thompson, the 30-year-old was parallegal in Wisconsin, said that “absolutely” would be like Trump to serve another term.
“America needs it. America is going in the right direction, and if he does not do it, we are probably going backwards,” said Thompson, who participated on Sunday in the campaign with Elon Musk in Green Bay Breed of the Supreme Court.
Jeremy Paul, a professor of constitutional law at Northeastern University of Boston, said: “There are no reliable legal arguments to launch the third term.”
Kristen Welker from NBC asked Trump if one potential road to the third term was to lead JD Vance vice president to the highest work, and “then give you a stick.”
“Well, it’s one thing,” Trump replied. “But there are others. There are others.”
“Can you tell me another one?” Welker asked.
“No,” Trump replied.
Vance’s office did not immediately respond to the request for comment with the Associated Press.
Derek Muller, professor of electoral law at Notre Dame, noticed that 12. Amendmentwho was ratified in 1804, says that “no person constitutionally eligible for the President’s office will be entitled to the Office of the United States Vice President.”
Muller said that this means that if Trump is not entitled to re -applied for the president because of 22 amendments, he is also not entitled to run for vice president.
“I don’t think there is” one strange trick “in making boundaries of presidential terms,” ​​said Muller.
In addition, the implementation of the third term would require extraordinary consent by federal and state officials, not to mention the courts and voters themselves.
He suggested that Trump was talking about the third term for political reasons to “show as much strength as possible.”
“A poor president, such as Donald Trump, has every encouragement in the world to look like a poor duck,” he said.
Trump, who at the end of his second term would be 82 years vintage, was asked if he would still like to serve “the most difficult work in the country.”
“Well, I like to work,” said the president.
Trump suggested that the Americans would go with the third term because of its popularity. He falsely claimed that he had “the highest number of surveys of each Republican for the last 100 years.”
Gallup data He shows President George W. Bush, achieving a 90% approval after attacks on September 11, 2001. His father, President George HW Bush, reached 89% after the war in the Persian Gulf in 1991.
Trump was maximally 47% of Gallup during the second term, although he claims that “in the 70s in many polls, in real polls.”
Trump previously wondered about serving for more than two terms, generally with jokes for warm recipients.
“Is I allowed to run again?” He said during a republican retreat in January.
Representatives of the congress leadership-House of the House Mike Johnson, R-la., Democratic leader Hakem Jeffries from New York, leader of most Senate John Thune, rs.d. And the democratic leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer from New York-they did not immediately respond to requests for comment from AP.
