Maga Rep wants to rewrite the constitution to give Donald Trump a third term

Just days into President Donald Trump’s second administration, one Republican congressman already wants to rewrite the U.S. Constitution to allow him to stay in office after his term is up.

Rep. Andy Ogles introduced a joint joint resolution on Thursday to amend the country’s founding document to allow a president to serve “up to but not more than three terms.”

The proposed amendment reads: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to a further term after having been elected for two consecutive terms, and no person who has held the presidency or acted as president in more than two years of a term for which another person was elected, the President is elected to the office of the President more than twice. “

Ogles argued that amending the 22nd Amendment would allow Trump “to serve three terms, ensuring that we can maintain the bold leadership that our nation so desperately needs.”

The measure needs a two-thirds vote in both chambers of Congress and ratification by 38 states to become official.

The proposed amendment would still prohibit a third run if a president had already served two consecutive terms, effectively boxing out former presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

In a meeting with House Republicans in November, Trump joked about the possibility of a third term in 2028.

“I guess I’m not going to run again unless you do something,” Trump said, according to audio obtained by The hill. “Unless you say, ‘He’s so good, we’ve just got to figure it out.’ “

That same month, New York Congressman Dan Goldman introduced a Resolution Seeks to reaffirm the limits set by the 22nd Amendment, which states that presidents who have served two full terms cannot seek a third.

“When the 22nd Amendment was ratified in 1951, our nation reaffirmed one of our most fundamental beliefs: No man shall be king,” Goldman said at the time. “Any attempt by Donald Trump to circumvent the 22nd Amendment is patently unconstitutional.”

Trump has never been coy about his interest in a third term.

When he was president in 2020, he was told A Nevada rally: “We will win four more years in the White House.” And then we negotiate after that, right? Because based on the way we were treated, we’re probably entitled to four more after that. “

This is also not the first time Trump has tried to bend the Constitution.

Shortly after returning to office on Monday, the president signed an executive order ending Birthright citizenship, which was temporarily blocked by a federal judge who called it “plainly unconstitutional.”