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Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president
By CHRIS MEGERIANUpdated 11:23 PM CDT, March 30, 2025
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.
“There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News from Mar-a-Lago, his private club.
He elaborated later to reporters on Air Force One from Florida to Washington that “I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election was totally rigged.” Trump lost that election to Democrat Joe Biden.
Still, Trump added: “I don’t want to talk about a third term now because no matter how you look at it, we’ve got a long time to go.”
The 22nd Amendment, added to the Constitution in 1951 after President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times in a row, says “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”
Any attempt to remain in office would be legally suspect and it is unclear how seriously Trump might pursue the idea. The comments nonetheless were an extraordinary reflection of the desire to maintain power by a president who had violated democratic traditions four years ago when he tried to overturn the election he lost to Biden. ...
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Hope Walz, the daughter of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, says she is declining to attend graduate school in protest against an unnamed university's handling of student protests.
Full transcript of "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," March 30, 2025
On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, UAW president Shawn Fain and Sen. Mark Warner join Margaret Brennan.
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