US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that “I'm not kidding” about the attempt to take the third term, the most important tip of the ways of violating the constitutional barrier against continuing the country after the end of his second term at the beginning of 2029.
“There are methods that can be done,” said Trump in a telephone interview with NBC News. He also said that “it is much too early to think about it.”
22. Amendment, added to the US Constitution in 1951. After Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president four times in a row, he says: “no person will be elected to the office of the president more than twice.”
Possible run as a vice president?
Kristen Welker from NBC asked Trump if one potential road to the third term was the vice president of JD Vance to get the highest job, and “then give you a stick.”
“Well, it's one,” Trump replied. “But there are others. There are others.”
“Can you tell me another?” Welker asked in an early morning interview before Trump left his MAR-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida to spend a day in a nearby golf course.
“No,” Trump replied.
Vance's office did not immediately respond to the request for comment with the Associated Press.
Derek Muller, a professor of electoral law at the University of Notre Dame, noticed that the 12th amendment, which was ratified in 1804, says that “no non -eligible person to the President's office will be entitled to the Office of the United States Vice President.”
Muller said that this means that if Trump is not entitled to re -applied for the president because of 22 amendments, he is also not entitled to run for vice president.
“I don't think there is” one strange trick “to cover the boundaries of presidential terms,” he said.
In addition, the implementation of the third term would require extraordinary consent by federal and state officials, not to mention the courts and voters themselves.
Muller suggested that Trump is talking about the third term for political reasons to “show as much strength as possible.”
“A bad president, such as Donald Trump, has every encouragement in the world to look like a poor duck,” he said.
“I like working”
Trump, who would be 82 at the end of the second term, was asked if he would still like to serve “the most difficult work in the country.”
“Well, I like to work,” said the president.
He suggested that the Americans would go with the third term because of his popularity. He falsely claimed that he had “the highest number of surveys of each Republican for the last 100 years.”
Gallup's data show that the then President George W. Bush reached a 90 % assessment of approval after terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. His father, President George HW Bush, reached 89 percent after the war in the Persian Gulf in 1991.
Trump maximum 47 percent in Gallup's data during the second term, despite the fact that in many polls, in many polls. “
Earlier he thought about serving more than two terms, generally with jokes for a friendly audience.
“Can I run again?” He said during a republican retreat in January.
Representatives of the Congress Management – a speaker of the Republican Chamber Mike Johnson, leader of the Democratic House Hakeem Jeffries, leader of the majority of the Republican Senate, John Thune and the leader of the Democratic Senate Chuck Schumer – did not answer immediately to the request for a comment from AP.