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Trump President told Sunday that “I’m not kidding” about trying to serve a third term, The clearest indication He considers ways to injure the constitutional barrier against teaching the country after his other concepts ended in early 2029. Years.

“There are methods you could do,” said Mr. Trump in a telephone conversation with NBC news from the Mar-Laga, his private club.

He also said, “It’s too early to think about it.”

The 22. Amendmentadded to Constitution 1951 After President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times in a row, he says “No person will be elected to the president’s office more than twice.”

Any attempt to stay in power would be legally suspicious and vaguely how serious would Lord Trump could continue the idea. However, they were an extraordinary reflection to maintain power by the President who violated democratic traditions four years ago when he tried to annul the elections he lost from the former Joe Biden President.

“This is another escalation in their clear effort to take over the government and dismantle our democracy,” said the statement by Representative Daniel Goldman, New York Democrat who served as a leading defense counsel. “If Congress Republicans believe in the Constitution, they will go to record by opposing Trump’s ambitions for the third term.”

Steve Bannon, former Trump strategist leading the right-wing room “War Rooms,” that the President re-launched during speech at a conservative political action conference last month.

“We wish Trump in ’28.” He said.

Jeremy Paul, a professor of the constitutional right on Boston’s northeastern university, said, “There are no credible legal arguments for him for which the third term is initiated.”

NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Mr. Trump if a potential avenue in the third time is to have JD Vance vice president for the upper job and “then pass you a stick.”

“Well, that’s one,” Mr. Trump replied. “But there are also others. There are others.”

“Can you tell me others?” Welker asked.

“No,” Mr. Trump replied.

Vance’s office did not immediately respond to a comment request from the associated press.

Derek Muller, Professor of the Election Act in Notre Dami, he noted that it is 12. AmendmentIn 1804, he says that “No person constitutional disobeyability The Office of the President is entitled to the Vice President of the United States.”

Muller said that he points out that if Mr. Trump is not eligible to be re-candidated for the president because of 22. Amendment, he is not eligible for the vice president.

“I don’t think there is any” strange trick “to achieve environmental limits of presidential terms,” ​​Muller said.

In addition, the follow-up of the third term requires the unusual agreement of federal and civil servants, without mentioning the courts and voters themselves.

He suggested that Mr. Trump talks about the third time for political reasons to “show as much power as possible.”

“The president of a pile of ducks like Donald Trump has every encouragement in the world to appear like he is not a poor duck,” he said.

Mr. Trump, who would be 82 at the end of the second term, asked if at that point would want to serve to serve in the “Hardest business in the country.”

“Well, I like to do,” said the president.

The leader of the Senate John Thunea said for Mr. Trump’s prospects to serve the third term “, not without changing the Constitution”. He told reporters, “I think you guys keep asking a question and … I think he’s having fun with that, he’s probably running out with you.”

Mr. Trump suggested that Americans would go along with the third term because of his popularity. He falsely claimed that “the highest numbers of the survey any republic in the last 100 years.”

Gallup data He shows President George W. Bush achieved a 90% approval after attack on 11. September 2001. years. His father, President George HW Bush, hit 89% after the war for the Bay in 1991. years.

During his second term, Trump increased 47% in galpup data, despite being “in high 70s in many surveys, in real surveys.”

Recent CBS news research He also saw that Mr. Trump’s economic policies could support. According to the poll, most Americans believe that Trump administration is too focused on tariffs and is not focused enough to reduce prices.

In January, just before Mr. Trump took office, four of the 10 years she felt his policy in order for the president to make the financial.

But at the end of March, only a quarter of Americans still feels like that, with almost twice as many years, which says Mr. Trump policies negatively affect their finances.

That DIP in Outlook includes his own party to Mr. Trump. Just before Mr. Trump took office, three-quarters of the Republicans said that his policies as presidents would do better, but now, less than half of them say it is what happens so far.

Trump thought about serving more than two concepts before, generally with jokes for a friendly audience.

“Am I allowed to run again?” He said during the Republican retreat in January.

Representatives for Congress leaders – speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Democratic leader of Jeffries from New York, Rs., And Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer from New York – did not answer the request for comment from AP.