Can Trump nominate for a third term?

The Emirates 24 website stated that US President Donald Trump indicated that there are “methods” through which he can try to stay in the White House for a third term, which is prohibited under the amendment 22 of the United States constitution.

“I am not joking,” Trump said, in an interview with the NBC News.

The “Washington Post” quotes the constitution experts that any third presidential candidacy will violate the spirit and text of the amendment, which was approved after the Second World War as the protection of “electoral property”, as the amendment (22) is frankly prohibited from any president of candidacy for more than two states, whether in consecutive or non -consecutive, and states that “no one may be elected to the position of the president more than twice.”

Congress approved this amendment in 1947, and became part of the American constitution in 1951, when the states were completely approved.

In conjunction with the twelfth amendment, which was believed in 1804, the twenty -second amendment also involves possible legal repercussions related to those who are entitled to run for the post of vice president. According to the twelfth amendment, “no person who is not constitutionally qualified for the position of president is not entitled to run for the post of Vice President.”

Trump has repeatedly sparked his candidacy for a third term, although he previously formulated it in indirect terms. In 2019, he indicated in a post on social media that his supporters may “demand” that. Last February, this possibility again asked him to ask at a reception at the White House whether they would support him to run for a third term.

During the weekend, Trump made one of his openly public statements so far about this possibility, pointing directly to how he nominated for a third term, stressing that he was not joking.

In a telephone interview with Kristen Wilker from “NBC News”, he indicated that there are plans to enable him to run for a third term. He said, “Many want me to do it. But in my opinion, we still have a long way to cut it. I focus on the current situation.”

The Republicans pushed the twenty -second amendment in the aftermath of World War II, in response to Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency, which lasted for four periods, which violated the base that President George Washington set, which requires the presidents not to run for a third term.

In 1940 and 1944, while the world was pushing towards a global conflict, Roosevelt took unusual steps by seeking a third term and then fourth, pointing to the need for stability.

After the death of Roosevelt and the end of World War II in 1945, the Republicans in Congress in 1947 sought to set constitutional borders for the presidency, as they promised in their partisan programs for 1940 and 1944, “to ensure that the US government regime does not fall.” They argued that determining the presidency would help protect the United States from dictatorship, and that it is nothing but a consolidation to imitate the two presidential periods that Washington has already established.

And that year, the House of Representatives voted with a majority of 285 votes compared to 121 votes in favor of a procedure proposed by MP Earl C. Mitchner, he must specify the term of the presidency in two periods, each of 4 years.

The following month, the Senate approved a modified version, and the procedure was only opposed to the Democrats.

In 1951, Minnesota became the thirty -sixth state, which ratifies the proposed amendment, and was announced on the first of March.

The newspaper says that the simplest legal way to avoid the restrictions of the twenty -second amendment is to cancel it, which is probably a long and long process, and requires the approval of another amendment. The proposed amendments must be approved by a majority of two -thirds of the members of the congressional councils, then approved by legislative bodies in three quarters of the states.

Despite thousands of proposed changes, the states only once modified the eighteenth amendment, which created alcohol embargo.

In a confirmation of her appointment in January, after her nomination for the position of public prosecutor, Bam Bondi said that Trump could not run for a third term in 2028, and added: “This will not happen unless they change the constitution,” in response to a question from Senator Chris Konz. (Emirates 24)