Trump Hints at Third Term Despite Constitutional Limits

USA's President Donald Trump does not rule out a third term, he says in an interview with NBC News. Many want me to do it, he says, and adds that he "is not joking" about what would be a breach of the Constitution.

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Trump Hints at Third Term Despite Constitutional Limits
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According to the president, there are ways to sit for a third term, but he does not want to say which ones.

He says, however, that he is focused on the present and that it is too early to think about another term.

In the USA, a president can, according to an amendment to the country's constitution, only sit for two terms.

When asked about a possible way, which would be for the current Vice President JD Vance to run in the presidential election and then hand over the post to Trump, he replies that "it is one" method.

But there are also others.

To change the rules, either two-thirds of Congress or two-thirds of the states would have to agree to call a constitutional convention to propose changes. Regardless, three-quarters of all states would then need to ratify the changes.

Many want me to do it. But to them, I say that we have a long way to go, we are still early in the (second) presidential term, says 78-year-old Trump.

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