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struggle4progress

(125,315 posts)
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 09:36 PM Mar 2025

rump says he's considering ways to serve a third term as president

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Updated 8:06 PM EDT, March 30, 2025

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.

“There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News from Mar-a-Lago, his private club.

He elaborated later to reporters on Air Force One from Florida to Washington that “I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election was totally rigged.” Trump lost that election to Democrat Joe Biden.

Still, Trump added: “I don’t want to talk about a third term now because no matter how you look at it, we’ve got a long time to go.”

The 22nd Amendment, added to the Constitution in 1951 after President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times in a row, says “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice” ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220191837

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rump says he's considering ways to serve a third term as president (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2025 OP
He won't make it that far. roamer65 Mar 2025 #1
Agreed SheltieLover Mar 2025 #4
Back at ya. roamer65 Mar 2025 #10
"Not Joking" About 3rd Presidential Term struggle4progress Mar 2025 #2
Setting the stage BOSSHOG Mar 2025 #3
Absolutely! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #5
I am considering ways to prevent that. Jack Valentino Mar 2025 #6
Battle Cry of Freedom struggle4progress Mar 2025 #8
General Sherman and his brigands never marched through Florida... Jack Valentino Mar 2025 #9
*SNORT* Skittles Mar 2025 #11
Another shiny object whilst they empty our pockets n/t Cheezoholic Mar 2025 #7
It is a distraction from #SignalGate. Captain Zero Mar 2025 #12
I see the wording says "elected" no more than twice. He will seek to be appointed, or Trust_Reality Mar 2025 #13
Because that's what traitors do. Kid Berwyn Mar 2025 #14

struggle4progress

(125,315 posts)
2. "Not Joking" About 3rd Presidential Term
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 09:39 PM
Mar 2025

Trump has made vague allusions to seeking a third one but addressed it directly on Sunday in a telephone interview with NBC News.
Reuters
World News
Mar 31, 2025 07:03 am IST

Republican President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was not joking about seeking a third presidential term, barred by the US Constitution ...

US presidents are limited to two four-year terms, consecutive or not, according to the 22nd Amendment of the US Constitution. A proposal to overturn a constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress and ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the 50 US states.

Some Trump allies have floated the idea of keeping Trump in the White House beyond 2028, and the president has also brought up the idea on a number of occasions in a manner that seemed to poke at his political opponents ...

Longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon said in a March 19 interview with NewsNation that he believes Trump will run again in 2028. Bannon said he and others are looking into ways to make that happen, including examining the definition of a term limit ...

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-not-joking-about-3rd-presidential-term-there-are-methods-he-says-8048944

BOSSHOG

(44,604 posts)
3. Setting the stage
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 09:40 PM
Mar 2025

Without interference, you will lose in a landslide never before seen in the history of the universe. Because you hate freedom and liberty and Justice for all. And you act accordingly.

Captain Zero

(8,711 posts)
12. It is a distraction from #SignalGate.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 11:11 PM
Mar 2025

They are desperate to #SignalGate out of the News.

Don't let them.

Trust_Reality

(2,262 posts)
13. I see the wording says "elected" no more than twice. He will seek to be appointed, or
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 11:58 PM
Mar 2025

refuse to leave using some sort of situation such as war.

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