Trump boasts of 3rd term chances, even though he ‘probably’ won’t run
President Donald Trump addressed the possibility of running for a third term, even though he faces decades-old restrictions in the U.S. Constitution.
In an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Tuesday, co-anchor Rebecca Quick asked Trump if he would run again in 2028.
"No, probably not," Trump initially said with a chuckle. "Hey, Becky, I'd like to run. I have the best poll numbers I've ever had. You know why? Because people love the tariffs and they love the trade deals and they love that foreign countries aren't ripping us off anymore."
Trump previously backtracked on a fourth presidential run in an interview with NBC News host Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press" in May.
"I'll be an eight-year president; I'll be a two-term president," Trump told Welker. "I always thought that was very important ... It's something that, to the best of my knowledge, you're not allowed to do. I don't know if that's constitutional that they're not allowing you to do it or anything else."
Ratified in 1951, the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution prohibits anyone who has served two terms as president from running for a third term. To overturn this, Trump would need support from two-thirds of the House of Representatives and the Senate or a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures. After which, three-quarters of state legislatures must approve the amendment.
The nation's first president, George Washington, set the standard carried on by almost all of his successors to serve two terms. Ulysses S. Grant failed to win the Republican nomination for a nonconsecutive third term in 1880. Theodore Roosevelt ran for a third term during the election of 1912, which divided Republican voters and allowed Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win that year.
It was Roosevelt's cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who broke the standard and successfully won a third term in 1940. He went on to win a fourth time in 1944, but he died months later in April 1945.
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