President Trump said he doesn’t want to discuss his plans for 2028 but said “so many people” are asking him to run for a third term — a move prohibited by the Constitution.
Trump was asked about his comments from an earlier Sunday interview in which he said he was “not joking” about running for a third term and said there were some potential methods that could allow him to seek another term.
“I’m not looking at that, but I’ll tell you, 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, so it’s actually sort of a fourth term,” Trump said, when asked whether his comments earlier meant he’s “not planning to leave office on January 20.”
Trump repeatedly touted what he described as the success of his administration, saying that’s the reason people want him to stay in office.
When a reporter noted the constitution limits the president to two terms in office, Trump interrupted, saying, “I don’t even want to talk about it.”
“I’m just telling you I have had more people saying, ‘please run again,’” Trump said. “We have a long way to go before we even think about that, but I’ve had a lot of people.”
Trump dug his heels in, when a reporter asked whether it’s “an appropriate precedent to set, even if it’s not you in that position.”
“I don’t even want to talk about a third term now because no matter how you look at it, you’ve got a long time to go,” Trump said in response.