{"id":3527,"date":"2025-10-29T13:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:51:18","slug":"trump-says-he-cannot-seek-a-third-term-despite-past-talk-of-changing-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/?p=3527","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He Cannot Seek a Third Term, Despite Past Talk of Changing the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Donald Trump today acknowledged that, according to his reading of the law, he is <em>not<\/em> eligible to run for a third term as president of the United States. He stated, \u201cIt\u2019s too bad\u201d he can\u2019t run again, while traveling aboard Air Force One en-route to South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s remark follows comments from Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, who confirmed that the constraints of the Constitution, specifically the Twenty\u2011second Amendment to the United States Constitution, prevent any person from being elected to the presidency more than twice. That amendment was ratified in 1951 and was designed to prohibit a third term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this acknowledgement, Trump\u2019s words contrast with his long-running flirtation with a third-term bid and the discussions among his allies about revising the rules. Earlier this year, he and some Republicans floated the possibility of legal \u201cmethods\u201d or a constitutional change to allow another term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead, the statement signals both political and constitutional clarity: though Trump appears to concede that a third elected term is barred, the idea remains alive in GOP circles, raising questions on future strategy, party dynamics and how seriously amendment efforts will be pursued\u2014despite the historically high barrier for changing presidential-term limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump today acknowledged that, according to his reading of the law, he is not eligible to run for a third term as president of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1.webp",630,420,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1.webp",630,420,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1.webp",630,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1-300x200.webp",300,200,true],"large":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1.webp",630,420,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1.webp",630,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1.webp",630,420,false],"digital-newspaper-featured":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1.webp",630,420,false],"digital-newspaper-list":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1-600x400.webp",600,400,true],"digital-newspaper-thumb":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1-300x200.webp",300,200,true],"digital-newspaper-small":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1-150x95.webp",150,95,true],"digital-newspaper-grid":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-1-400x250.webp",400,250,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/?author=1"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"President Donald Trump today acknowledged that, according to his reading of the law, he is not eligible to run for a third term as president of the United States.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}