Donald Trump has said he is “not joking” about trying to serve a third term as US president in 2028 despite such a move breaching the constitution.
“There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News, in which he also lashed out at Vladimir Putin and threatened to bomb Iran.
The 22nd Amendment, which was added to the Constitution in 1951 after President Franklin D Roosevelt was elected four times in a row, prohibits such a move, stating “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”
When asked about a possible scenario in which Vice President JD Vance would run for office and then pass the role to Trump, the US president replied: “that’s one” method.
“But there are others, too,” he added, but refused to elaborate. .
He later told reporters on board Air Force One 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.”
He continued: “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.”
However any attempt to remain in office would be legally suspect and it is unclear how seriously Trump might pursue the idea.
Any attempt to amend the Constitution to remove the two-term limit would require a two-thirds vote of Congress or to two-thirds of states agreeing to call a convention to propose the change. That would then require ratification from three-quarters of the states, making it highly unlikely.
“This is yet another escalation in his clear effort to take over the government and dismantle our democracy,” Daniel Goldman, a New York Democrat who served as lead counsel for Trump’s first impeachment, said.
“If Congressional Republicans believe in the Constitution, they will go on the record opposing Trump’s ambitions for a third term.”
Steve Bannon, a former Trump strategist, called for the president to run again during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month.
“We want Trump in ’28,” he said.
Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law professor at Boston’s Northeastern University, said “there are no credible legal arguments for him to run for a third term.”
The notion that Vance could pass the baton to Trump would be unlikely too, experts say.
Derek Muller, a professor of election law at Notre Dame, noted that the 12th Amendment, which was ratified in 1804, says “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
Muller said that indicates that if Trump is not eligible to run for president again because of the 22nd Amendment, he is not eligible to run for vice president, either.
“I don’t think there’s any ‘one weird trick’ to getting around presidential term limits,” Muller said.
In addition, pursuing a third term would require extraordinary acquiescence by federal and state officials, not to mention the courts and voters themselves.
Trump has mused before about serving longer than two terms before, generally with jokes to friendly audiences.
“Am I allowed to run again?” he said during a House Republican retreat in January.
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