Donald Trump finally gives verdict on whether he’ll run for president again
Topics: Donald Trump, Politics, US News
Madison Burgess
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Topics: Donald Trump, Politics, US News
Donald Trump has revealed whether he plans to run for President of the United States again in the 2028 election following his second term.
Now, I know what you're thinking: it's common knowledge that one person can only serve two terms as President in the US, and taking on a third is strictly prohibited in the US Constitution.
The 22nd Amendment states: "No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice, and no person who has held the office of president, or acted as president, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president shall be elected to the office of the president more than once."
For those who need a reminder, the Republican leader, 79, will have already been in the position for two terms once the next election rolls around.
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His first term began in 2017 after he defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, and his second term started this year after he beat Kamala Harris - in between the two, Joe Biden was president.
Despite the constitution stating that 'no person shall be elected more than twice,' it hasn't stopped Trump from toying with the idea.
In an interview with NBC back in March, he said that there were methods for doing so and insisted that he was 'not joking'.
He told the publication: "A lot of people want me to do it. But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”
And it's not the first time he alluded to it as back in January, he told his supporters it would be 'the greatest honour of my life to serve not once, but twice or three times or four times', the BBC reports.
However, he then clarified that this was a joke for the 'fake news media'.
Meanwhile, Steve Bannon, who was White House Chief Strategist from January to August 2017, also previously said he believes Trump will win if he is able to find a way to run for a third time.
"There are methods which you could do it. President Trump is going to be eligible, is going to run again, and will win again," Bannon said in the podcast Apocalypse Now? earlier this year on 1 May.
"I will tell you, on the afternoon of the 20th January of 2029, he's going be in the White House signing executive orders."
But now, the American president has made it clear that even though he wants to, he 'probably won't' be running again.
Speaking to CNBC today (August 5), he said: "I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, a record that they say won't be beaten unless I run again."
He was then asked by the interviewer: "Are you going to run again?" to which he laughed before issuing his response.
Trump said: "No, probably not. 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 that foreign countries aren't ripping us off anymore."
He continued: "For years they ripped us off, friend and foe."
During the interview, he was awkwardly fact-checked by Joe Kernen, who said that Trump has the best poll numbers among Republicans, not the general public overall.
However, Trump simply responded that he had 'a lot of fake polls'.