
Trump wants to run for third term as US President. Can he do it and what does law say? 10-point explainer
Donald Trump has reiterated that he might pursue a third term as US President, adding he is not joking" about wanting to serve in 2028. In an interview with NBC News, Trump said, «There are methods which you could do it. I am not joking.»
Later, talking to the reporters, he said that there were demands from the people for him to run for a third term. «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. 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,” Trump said, who would be 82 by the end of his potential second term. But the question arises can Trump run for a third term?
In January, he told supporters that it would be „the greatest honour of my life to serve not once, but twice or three times or four times“. However, he then said this was a joke for the „fake news media“.
Can Trump run for President's post again?
-Trump has repeatedly hinted at running for a third term over the past few months. This is the clearest indication yet that Trump is looking to breach the two-term limit for American Presidents that has been enshrined in the US Constitution for almost seven-and-a-half decades.
-The Constitution of the United States bars the President from serving a third term. It says „no person… shall be elected more than twice“.
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-»No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice, and no person who has held the office of president, or acted as president, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president shall be elected to the office of the president more than once," the 22ns Amendment states.