President Donald Trump says that Americans want it to run for another mandate, a step prohibited by the Constitution of the United States but continues to describe as possible.
“I’m not joking” about the idea of looking for a third mandate, Trump said Monday an interview with NBC News.
“People ask me to run,” Trump told journalists at the Oval office later on Monday when asked about the possibility of a third mandate.
The 78 -year -old Republican served from 2017 to 2021 and began his second mandate in the White House on January 20.
This is what you should know about the legal barriers Trump would face when looking for a third mandate.
What does the United States constitution say?
The 22nd amendment establishes in part: “No person will be chosen for the president’s office more than twice.”
The amendment was ratified in 1951 after Franklin D Roosevelt broke with a limit of two self -imposed periods established by the presidents from the first president of the nation, George Washington.
Roosevelt, a Democrat who was president during the Great Depression and World War Two, fulfilled a third term and then died months in his fourth term in 1945.
Wayne Unger, a law professor at the University of Quinnipiac in the United States, said the Constitution was clear that the presidents are limited to two terms of four years each. He said that while that had not been proven in court, any challenge by Trump will probably not succeed.
“It would predict that the Supreme Court say no, it is clear, two terms of four years each, Donald Trump, cannot be applied for a third,” said Unger, who teaches constitutional law.
Can Trump allies change the constitution of the United States?
Yes, but that is very unlikely in an era of intense political polarization between the Democrats and Trump’s Republican party.
Any constitutional amendment would require the support of two thirds in the House of Representatives and the Senate or a convention convened by two thirds of the states, and then the ratification by 38 of the 50 state legislatures.
Republicans have a thin majority of shaving 218-213 in the camera and a majority of 53-47 in the Senate. Republicans control 28 state legislatures.
Andy Ogles, a republican representative of the United States of Tennessee and a strong defender of Trump, in January proposed to amend the amendment 22 to allow people to serve three non -consecutive terms as president.
Since Trump’s terms from 2017 and in 2025 were not consecutive, the amendment, if approved, would allow him to fulfill a third mandate from 2029.
At 82 years and seven months, Trump will already be the greatest president of the United States at the end of his second term in January 2029.
Democrat Joe Biden was 82 years old and two months when he left office in January.
Could Donald Trump run as vice president?
In an interview with NBC, Trump said a possibility would be that his vice president, JD Vance, runs for president in 2028 with Trump as his vice presidential candidate.
Vance would resign as president if he wins, racing the way for Trump to return to the White House.
But Trump would prohibit him from running for vice president because he would not be eligible to be president. The twelfth amendment to the Constitution of the United States says: “No constitutionally ineligible person for the president’s office will be eligible for that of the United States vice president.”
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