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Look, you guys continue to ask the president this question about a third term, and then he answers honestly and candidly with a smile, and then everybody here melts down,
she told reporters
No, it will be to serve twice. For the next four years, I will not rest."
He later clarified
It will be the greatest honour of my life to serve, not once but twice or three times or four times,
Trump said at the Nevada rally, according to CNNI’m not joking...It is far too early to think about it,
the President saidUnder any reasonable interpretation of the 22nd Amendment, he can’t run again,
said Jeremy R. Paul, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University
There's a lot of things the president talks about ... ultimately it gets people talking and addresses some other issues too,
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) told reporters on Monday, referring to other grand ideas Trump has floated, such as taking over Greenland or the Panama CanalEverywhere there are term limits, there are vulnerabilities,
said Michigan State law professor Brian KaltIf the man who created the disastrous 'New Deal' gets more than two terms, then the man who created the 'Art of The Deal' should get the same,
Ogles posted to X on MondayThe meaning of the 22nd Amendment could not be clearer,
he said
We’re working on it,
Bannon said last month
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 22nd Amendment to the Constitution states
Politically, Trump doesn't have the votes to repeal the 22nd Amendment, either in Congress or the states. I would expect even the conservative Supreme Court to enforce the ban on a third term. Failing to do so would trigger a constitutional crisis and throw the country into chaos. Of course, Trump hasn't been shy about pushing or even ignoring legal boundaries. But there is no legal way for him to do so when it comes to a third term."
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani previously told Newsweek
I don't think there's any 'one weird trick' to getting around presidential term limits. A lame-duck president like Donald Trump has every incentive in the world to make it seem like he's not a lame duck."
Derek Muller, a professor of election law at Notre Dame, told The Associated PressAnyone discounting a third Trump term per the 22nd Amendment + the 12th Amendment is thinking magically: The 22nd doesn't bar serving a 3rd term, only being elected 3 times. The 12th doesn't bar running for VP unless 'ineligible' to serve as Pres, but Trump isn't ineligible."
Harvard law professor and constitutional expert Laurence Tribe posted on X, formerly TwitterBut there are others too,
Trump said, though he declined to elaborate
I never take military force off the table, but I think there’s a good possibility we could do it without military force."
On his vow to take control of Greenland, Welker quoted Trump as saying
I couldn’t care less if they raised prices because people are going to start buying American-made cars."
Also, on American cars costing more because of his tariff war, the president saidI think he is going to run again in 2028 and I think he is going to win,
Bannon said
Trump hopes to torch the Constitution and coronate himself as king in the manner of Napoleon’s… self-coronation as Emperor in 1804,
Fein saidThere are zero constitutional methods to circumvent the 22nd Amendment,
Fein told Al Jazeera