Trump Third White House Term Eyes by House Resolution

a republican Home Member introduced a resolution Thursday to amend the United States Constitution To allow the president donald trump – and any other future president – be elected to a third period in the White House.

Trump “has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing the decay of our nation and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to achieve that goal,” he said. Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennesseewho proposed extending the current maximum of two elected terms.

“It is imperative that we provide President Trump with all the resources necessary to correct the disastrous course set by the Biden administration,” Ogles said in a statement.

“He is dedicated to restoring the Republic and saving our country, and we, as legislators and as states, must do everything in our power to support him,” said Ogles, a hardline conservative who is serving his second term in the Chamber.

“I propose an amendment to the Constitution to review the limitations imposed by the 22nd Amendment in presidential terms,” ​​he added.

Ogles’ move came three days after Trump was sworn in for a second non-consecutive term, becoming only the second US president to accomplish that feat.

And the resolution occurs two months later Rep. and Goldmana New York Democrat, introduced a House resolution that “reaffirms that the twenty-one-year amendment applies to two terms together as president of the United States,” and that the amendment applies to the 78-year-old Trump.

A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Ogles’ resolution.

He 22nd Amendment to the Constitution States in part: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”

The Ogles resolution seeks to revise this to read: “‘No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times…”

The original amendment also states that “no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which any other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once.” “

In his statement Thursday, Ogles said the resolution he was introducing would “enable President Trump to serve three terms, ensuring we can maintain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”

Proposed in 1947 and ratified in 1951, the 22nd Amendment was written to prevent a repeat of President Franklin Roosevelt’s unprecedented four terms in office.

To this day, Roosevelt is the only president to have been elected to more than two terms. He died in 1945, less than 90 days after its fourth inauguration.

Republicans currently hold an extremely narrow three-seat majority in the House. Few, if any Democrats, are likely to vote for the Ogles resolution with Trump in office.

“I suspect I won’t run again unless you say, ‘It’s so good we have to figure something else out,'” Trump Reportedly mulled to House Republicans during a private meeting in November, shortly after his election victory over former Democratic vice president Kamala Harris.

Speaking to members of the National Rifle Association in May, Trump said: “I don’t know, are we going to be considered three or two terms? Are we three or two terms if we win?”

Trump’s openness to a third term is no surprise to some people who know him.

Former Fox News journalist Geraldo Rivera, who was friendly with Trump for decades in New York, predicted in December that Trump and his allies would soon turn their attention to the 22nd Amendment.

“For future reference: President Trump & Co. will soon start talking about repealing/amending the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two four-year terms,” ​​Rivera wrote on X.

“Although the 22nd Amendment prohibits Trump from being elected president again, it does not prohibit him from serving as president beyond January 20, 2029,” he wrote. Philip Riveterprofessor of government at Hamilton College, in a recent article in The conversation.

“The reason for this is that the 22nd Amendment only prohibits someone from being ‘elected’ more than twice,” Klinker wrote. “It says nothing about someone becoming president in any way other than being elected to office.”

Klinker wrote that a hypothetical scenario would be for Trump to run for vice president in 2028, and for Vice President JD Vance to run at the top of the ticket, for president.

“If elected, Vance could resign, making Trump President again,” Klinker wrote. “But Vance wouldn’t even have to resign for a Vice President Trump to exercise the power of the presidency.

He 25th Amendment The constitution states that if a president declares that he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office…such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as acting president.” “

Another scenario Klinker imagined is that Trump encourages a family member to run and win the White House. Once elected, they would serve as little more than a figurehead president while Trump made the key decisions.