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Generate Key Takeaways While President Trump continues to muse about the possibility of serving more than two terms in office, the Trump Organization is teasing the idea by offering “Trump 2028” hats and T-shirts in its online store. “The future looks bright! Rewrite the rules with the Trump 2028 high crown hat,” the product description reads, alongside an image of the president’s son Eric Trump wearing the red-and-white baseball cap, which is priced at $50.
The T-shirts ($36) have “(Rewrite the Rules)” printed underneath the “Trump 2028” logo. Asked whether the new merchandise is a sign he’s running, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it is not. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement “It’s just a hat,” Leavitt said during a live interview with Axios on Friday.
“It’s not something he’s thinking of, though I hear the hats are flying off the shelves.” Trump Organization Trump is the second U.S. president ever to serve a second nonconsecutive term in the White House. The only other president to do so was Grover Cleveland, who served from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897. During an interview with NBC News last month, Trump said, “I’m not joking” when asked about trying to serve a third term.
“There are methods which you could do it,” the president said. In an interview with Time magazine published on Friday, Trump was asked what “methods” he was referring to. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement “I’d rather not discuss that now, but as you know, there are some loopholes that have been discussed that are well known,” the president said.
“But I don’t believe in loopholes. I don’t believe in using loopholes.” Asked whether one of those loopholes would be for him to run for vice president, Trump said he didn’t know anything about it. “All I can say is this, I am being inundated with requests,” he said.
What does the Constitution say? Donald Trump is sworn in as president by Chief Justice John Roberts on Jan. 20. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Pool/Getty Images) Trump is legally barred from running for a third term by the U.S. Constitution.
The 22nd Amendment prohibits any president from serving more than two terms in the White House. This also applies to terms served nonconsecutively, as in Trump’s case. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement The amendment states: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.” The 22nd Amendment was adopted into the Constitution in 1951 after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to the White House an unprecedented four times: in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944.
Until that point, U.S. presidents honored a long tradition dating back to George Washington of a self-imposed two-term limit. While the 22nd Amendment does not say anything about barring a two-term president from serving as vice president, the 12th Amendment states that “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.” Could Congress change the 22nd Amendment? President Trump at an executive order signing ceremony in the Oval Office on Feb. 10.
(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Yes, but changing a constitutional amendment is a lengthy and involved process. It would require a two-thirds vote from both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Then it would need to be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures.
Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement But at least one GOP lawmaker appears willing to try. In January, Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, introduced a resolution that would revise the 22nd Amendment to allow presidents who serve two nonconsecutive terms to run again. “President Trump’s decisive leadership stands in stark contrast to the chaos, suffering, and economic decline Americans have endured over the past four years,” Ogles said in a statement on Jan. 23 — three days after Trump’s inauguration.
“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.” Rep. Dan Goldman, a Democrat from New York, introduced his own resolution to reaffirm the 22nd Amendment in November 2024. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement “How he [Trump] operates is by floating trial balloons that he often claims are jokes,” Goldman said on Bloomberg TV. “But he’s very serious about it.” What else has Trump said about a 3rd term?
Trump speaks at a rally in Las Vegas on Jan. 25. (Ian Maule/Getty Images) On Election Day in November, Trump was asked by a reporter whether the 2024 campaign was his last. “I would think so,” he said.
Since then, though, he has repeatedly floated the idea of running again. In a meeting with congressional Republicans in November after his election victory, Trump suggested they could help him seek a third term. “I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say, ‘He’s so good we’ve got to figure something else out,’” Trump said.
Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement “They say I can’t run again — that’s the expression,” Trump said at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 6. “Then somebody said, ‘I don’t think you can.’ Oh.” At a Black History Month reception at the White House in late February, Trump asked the crowd whether he should run again. The audience responded with chants of “Four more years!” The president’s impromptu poll came after he mentioned “the next time,” in an apparent reference to running again.
At a rally in Las Vegas shortly after taking office, Trump said, “It will be the greatest honor of my life to serve not once, but twice or three times or four times.”
