Donald Trump jokes about third or fourth term

During a speech in Las Vegas, US President Donald Trump flirted with the idea of ​​staying in the White House for more than two terms. “It will be the greatest honor of my life to serve not once, but twice, three or four times,” he said, laughing and waving to supporters, to loud cheers. He then added that this statement was a headline for the “fake news” media and finally said it would be “twice.”

The 22nd Amendment states that no one may be elected president of the United States more than twice. Trump knows that Democrats fear that the Republican might try to interpret the Constitution differently in order to stay in power longer. The legal world has also been running through theories as to how Trump could try to do this.

Trump likes to test his limits and repeatedly provokes people with ambiguous statements, which he sometimes quickly stops. The Republican also regularly claims that he is misunderstood and that the media twists the words in his mouth. His supporters say that with jokes like the one about another term, he’s just making fun of the media’s knee-jerk reaction. His critics, on the other hand, see this as a targeted strategy to pave the way for radical ideas.

Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, a Republican member of the House of Representatives, Andy Ogles, actually introduced a resolution to amend the US Constitution to allow Trump and future presidents to be elected to a third term. The resolution has no chance of success and is purely symbolic in nature. There are high hurdles to amending the constitution in the USA.

Trump was US President from 2017 to 2021 and was re-elected in 2024. Before Trump, there was only one president in US history who was elected back to the White House for a second time after an interruption: Grover Cleveland – in the 19th century.