Donald Trump is selling limits with the “Trump 2028” registration and suggests that there could be a violation of the two terms for the President of the United States.
The organization of Trump, the commercial conglomerate of Donald Trump, is selling red hats with the words “Trump 2028”, seeming to suggest that the current President of the United States will be nominated for the elections of that year.
At that point, however, Donald Trump will have satisfied two terms to the White House, the limit established by the Constitution of the United States.
The release of the limit sold to $ 50 ($ 284) occurred after Trump’s comments that “is not joking” on wanting to satisfy a third term as President of the United States.
The Constitution of the United States states that “no person … will be elected more than twice”, but some Trump supporters – and the president himself – have suggested that there could be ways to circumvent it.
Why is Trump talking about a third term?
Trump was asked in an interview with NBC on the possibility of looking for a third term and said that “there are methods you could do.”
“I’m not joking … many people want me to do this,” he added. “But in practice, I tell them that we still have a long way to go, you know, we are still at the beginning of the government.”
Trump, who would have turned 82 at the end of his second term, was asked if he would like to continue serving in the “most difficult work of the country”.
“Well, I like to work,” he replied.
These were not your first comments on the subject. In January, he told supporters that he would be “the greatest honor of my life to serve not one but two, three or four times”. However, he said this was a joke for the “liar print”.
In April, Trump’s official online store started offering a “Trump 2028” hood for sale for $ 50. The son of the president, Eric, was photographed using the advertising hood, which included the message: “The future seems bright!”
What does the Constitution of the United States say?
At first glance, the Constitution of the United States seems to exclude anyone from a third term. The 22nd amendment states:
“Nobody can be elected in the position of president more than twice, and nobody who has held the position of president, or has acted as president, for more than two years of mandate for which another person has been elected, can be elected more than once.”
The change of the Constitution would require the approval of two thirds of the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives, as well as the approval of three quarters of the country’s state governments.
The Republican Party of Trump controls both Congress’ houses, but does not have the necessary majority. In addition, the Democratic Party controls 18 of the 50 state legislatures.
How could Trump be president for a third term?
Trump supporters say that there is a violation in the Constitution that has not been tested in court.
They argue that the 22nd amendment only explicitly prohibits that someone is “elected” to more than two presidential terms – and says nothing about the “succession”.
According to this theory, Trump could be another candidate’s partner for the vice -president, perhaps his vice -president, JD Vance in the 2028 elections.
If they win, the candidate can enter the White House and give up immediately, letting Trump take the place of the succession.
Steve Bannon, Podcaster and former Trump evaluator, said he believed that Trump would “compete and won”, adding that there were “some alternatives” to determine how.
“There are some gaps that have been discussed,” Trump said to Time Magazine in a complete interview published in April. “But I don’t believe in violations.”
Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican in the House of Representatives, presented a resolution in January which requires a constitutional amendment to allow a president to satisfy up to three terms, provided they are not consecutive. Trump won in 2016, lost in 2020 and won again in 2024.
However, the high standards for the constitutional amendments make Ogles’s proposal a utopia, although it has generated discussions.
Who opposes a third term of Trump?
Democrats have profound objections.
“This is another climb in its clear effort to hire the government and dismantle our democracy,” said Daniel Goldman, a New York parliamentarian who acted as the main lawyer in the first Trump impeachment process.
“If the Congress Republicans believe in the Constitution, they will publicly oppose Trump’s ambitions for a third term”.
Some within the Trump party also think that it is a bad idea.
Republican senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma said in February that he would not have supported an attempt to put Trump back to the White House.
“In the first place, I will not change the Constitution unless the American people choose to do so,” Mullin said to NBC.
Republican deputy Tom Cole defined the “too imaginative idea to be seriously discussed”.
What do legal experts say?
Derek Muller, professor of electoral law at the University of Notre Dame, states that the twelfth amendment of the Constitution states that “no person constitutionally not admissible for the position of President will be admissible to that of the Vice President of the United States”.
This means that, in his opinion, to fulfill two terms disqualify anyone who is a candidate as a vice presidential candidate.
“I don’t think there is a” strange makeup “to get around the limits of the presidential mandates,” he said.
Jeremy Paul, professor of constitutional law at the North -Eastern University of Boston, told CBS New that there were no “reliable legal arguments” for a third term.
Has anyone served more than two terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been elected four times. He died three months after the beginning of his fourth term in April 1945.
The Great Depression and the Second World War have marked the period of Roosevelt in power and are often mentioned as responsible for their long presidency.
At that time, the limit of two terms for US presidents had not been written by law. It was a custom since George Washington refused a third term in 1796.
The long management of Roosevelt led the tradition to be codified by the law at the 22nd amendment in 1951.
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Source: Terra
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