Trump's third term within the White House is targeted by a House resolution

A Republican House member made one resolution Thursday to vary that US Constitution to enable the election of President Donald Trump – and every other future president third term within the White House.

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

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

“He is committed to restoring the republic and saving our country, and we as legislatures and states must do everything in our power to support him,” said Ogles, a hardline conservative serving his second term within the House .

“I am proposing an amendment to the Constitution to revise presidential term limits imposed by the 22nd Amendment,” he added.

Ogles' move got here three days after Trump was sworn in for a second, non-consecutive term – making him only the second US president to attain the feat.

And the answer comes two months later Rep. And Goldmana New York Democrat, introduced a House resolution that “affirms that the Twenty-second Amendment applies to a total of two terms as President of the United States” and that the amendment applies to the 78-year-old Trump.

A White House spokesman didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment on Ogles' resolution.

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The twenty second Amendment it reads partly: “No person may be elected to the office of President more than twice.”

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

The original amendment also states: “No person who has held the office of President for more than two years, or who has served as President during any term for which another person has been elected President, may serve in the office of President more than once Presidents will be elected.”

In his statement Thursday, Ogles said the resolution he introduced “would allow President Trump to serve three terms and ensure we can maintain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”

The 22nd Amendment, proposed in 1947 and ratified in 1951, was written to prevent a repeat of the unprecedented four-term election of President Franklin Roosevelt.

To date, Roosevelt remains the only president ever elected to more than two terms. He died in 1945, less than 90 days after his fourth inauguration.

The Republicans currently have an extremely narrow majority of three seats in the House of Representatives. Few, if any, Democrats are likely to vote for Ogles' resolution while Trump is in office.

Trump is open to it

Throughout his political career, Trump has repeatedly indicated that he would be willing to serve more than two terms.

“My guess is that I won't run again unless you say, 'He's so good, we have to think of something else,'” Trump said supposedly thought about it 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 if we're going to go for three terms or two terms? If we win, are we going to be three terms or two terms?”

To some people who know him, Trump's openness to a third term comes as no surprise.

Former Fox News journalist Geraldo Rivera, who was friends 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 the future: President Trump & Co. will soon start talking about repealing/amending the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidential terms to two four-year terms,” Rivera wrote on X.

Other ways to stay in power

Amending the Constitution is not the only way for Trump to remain in power after his current term ends.

“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 KlinknerProfessor of Government at Hamilton College, in a recent article in The conversation.

“The reason for that is that the twenty second Amendment only prohibits someone from being 'elected' greater than twice,” Klinker wrote. “It says nothing about someone becoming president other than being elected to the office.”

Klinker wrote that a hypothetical scenario would be that Trump runs for vice president in 2028 and Vice President JD Vance runs as the front-runner for president.

“If Vance is elected, he could resign and make Trump president again,” Klinker wrote. “But Vance wouldn’t even have to resign for a Vice President Trump to wield the power of the presidency.”

The 25th Amendment The Constitution states that when a President declares that “he’s unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, … such powers and duties shall be exercised by the Vice President as Acting President.”

Another scenario Klinker envisioned could be that Trump would encourage a member of the family to run for and win the White House. Once elected, they’d be little greater than presidential figureheads while Trump made an important decisions.

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