In a speech in Las Vegas, the American President Donald Trump flirted with the idea of staying in the White House for more than two terms of office. “It will be the greatest honor of my life, not just once, but to serve twice, three times or four times“He said on Saturday with great cheers in front of followers. Then he followed that this statement was a headline for the “fake news” media and finally said that It will be “twice”.
The 22nd constitutional addition stipulates that nobody can be elected to the US president more than twice. Trump knows that the Democrats fear that the Republican can try to interpret the constitution differently in order to stay in power longer. The legal world has already played through theories of how Trump could try.
Trump likes to test his limits and always provokes with ambiguous statements, which he sometimes quickly captures again. The Republican also regularly claims that he would be misunderstood and the media would turn the words in his mouth. His supporters say that he only makes fun of jokes like a further term through the reflexive reaction of the media. His critics, on the other hand, see this a targeted strategy to pave the ground for radical ideas.
A Republican member of the House of Representatives, Andy Ogles, actually had one shortly after Trump's swearing -in Resolution introduced to change the US constitution so that Trump and future presidents can be elected for a third term. The resolution has No prospect of success and is pure symbolic nature. There are high hurdles in the USA for a constitutional change.
Trump was President of the US from 2017 to 2021 and was re-elected in 2024. There was only one president in American history before Trump who was elected back to the White House a second time after interruption: Grover Cleveland – in the 19th century.
