How critical is Trump a few third time period?

President Donald Trump by no means misses an opportunity to foreshadow a 3rd time period. 

Through the Nationwide Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Trump randomly instructed he would run for one more time period regardless of others telling him he couldn’t.  

“They say I can’t run again. That’s the expression. Sir. And somebody said, ‘I don’t think you can.’ Ooh!” Trump stated, chuckling.

This isn’t the primary, second, and even fifth time the convicted felon has shrugged off the twenty second Modification—which limits presidents to 2 phrases—and instructed he keep in workplace previous his time. 

With three years, 11 months, and round two weeks left till one other president is anticipated to take energy, individuals have questioned if that’s sufficient time for the person recognized for fraud, grifting, and mendacity to think about a method to deceive America to its core. 

Politico, the outlet Trump has focused with a brand new false conspiracy idea, compiled a listing of how the president would possibly make a seize for energy within the subsequent few years. 

He might generate a motion to repeal the twenty second Modification by passing one other modification—which might be just about not possible since it could require 38 states, together with many blue states, to ratify the brand new modification. 

Trump might additionally exploit a possible “vice president” loophole within the modification. The concept goes that Trump can be elected as vice chairman, then the president—say, JD Vance—would resign and permit Trump to instantly ascend again to the presidency. 

President Donald Trump, left, factors to Supreme Court docket Chief Justice John Roberts after taking the oath of workplace within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025.

Another choice is to easily run for the presidency once more on the wager that the conservative-packed Supreme Court docket wouldn’t cease him. The court docket has already granted him king-like immunity from prison prosecutions, so it may not be a foul wager for Trump.

Lastly, he might simply outright refuse to go away, testing or ending American democracy. In any case, it’s an concept he tossed round relating to the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

As Each day Kos has beforehand reported, one Tennessee Republican is attempting to make the trail to a 3rd Trump time period simpler to attain. Final month, Rep. Andy Ogles proposed laws to amend the Structure, permitting Trump to run for a 3rd time period. 

Apparently sufficient, Ogles phrased the laws in such a means that it could solely enable two residing presidents a shot at serving once more: Trump and Biden. Presidents who’ve served out two consecutive phrases don’t qualify for reelection, the laws says. Sorry, Obama.