According to a phone interview conducted on Mar. 30, 2025, by NBC News, President Trump and his supporters want him to run for a third term.
“I’m not joking,” Trump stated. “There are methods that you could do it.” His team and close advisor, Steve Bannon, are working to find a way to keep him in power after 2028.
Despite the 22nd Amendment, which states that a president cannot run more than two terms, Trump is finding ways to extend his presidency. Bannon and his team are looking into different ways to get around the term limits, but has started a debate with legal experts who question whether the act is constitutional.
Some other supporters offer different strategies to make a third term possible. Representative Congressman Andy Ogles is one of those supporters, suggesting that we should change the Amendment altogether.
“President Trump’s decisive leadership stands in stark contrast to the chaos, suffering, and economic decline Americans have endured over the past four years,” said Ogles. “He has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal. To that end, I am proposing an amendment to the Constitution to revise the limitations imposed by the 22nd Amendment on presidential terms. This amendment would allow President Trump to serve three terms, ensuring that we can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”
While some supporters like Ogles are trying to revise the 22nd Amendment, others like Bannon are looking for loopholes in the 12th and 22nd Amendments, arguing that a third term is possible.
“Since it doesn’t say consecutive, I don’t know, maybe we do it again in ’28? Are you guys down for that? Trump ’28?” said Bannon.
Some supporters have given an option where Trump could run for vice president in 2028, and when elected, have the current president resign, which would put Trump back in office. However, the public is largely against the idea of a third term. In a Reuters/Ipsos national survey, the polls show that many Americans are against Trump having a third term, while only a small margin shows support.
Legal experts agree that the 22nd Amendment prohibits anyone from being elected president more than twice.
“The 12th Amendment notes that ‘no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President,'” stated Derek Muller, Election Law Professor of Notre Dame University. “I don’t think there’s any ‘one weird trick’ to getting around presidential term limits.”
