Trump’s Third White House term eyed by House dissolution

A Republican House member introduced a Resolution Thursday to change United States Constitution To allow President Donald Trump — and any other future president — to be elected to a third term in the White House.

Trump “has proven to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our country’s decline and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary for the dissolution.

“It is imperative that we provide President Trump with every resource necessary to correct the disastrous course set by the Biden administration,” Ogles said in a statement.

“He is dedicated to restoring the republic and saving our country, and we as legislators and as states must do everything we can to support him,” said Ogles, a hardline conservative serving his second term in the House.

“I am proposing an amendment to the Constitution to revise the limitations imposed by the 22nd Amendment on presidential terms,” ​​he added.

Ogles’ move came three days after Trump was sworn in in a momentary, nonconsistent expression—and became only the second U.S. president to do so.

And the solution comes two months later Rep. Dan Goldmana New York Democrat, introduced a House resolution that “affirms that the twenty-second amendment applies to two terms in total as President of the United States” and that the amendment applies to the 78-year-old Trump.

A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision.

The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution states in part: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”

Ogles’ resolution seeks to revise this to read, “‘No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times . . .”

The original amendment also states that “no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of any term in which another person was elected President, shall be elected to the office of President more than once.”

In his statement Thursday, Ogles said the resolution he introduced “would allow President Trump to serve three terms, ensuring we can maintain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”

Proposed in 1947 and ratified in 1951, the 22nd Amendment was written to prevent a repeat of President Franklin Roosevelt’s unprecedented four-term election.

Today, Roosevelt is the only president ever to be elected to more than two terms. He died in 1945, less than 90 days after his fourth initiation.

“I guess I’m not going to run again unless you say, ‘He’s so good we’ve got to figure out something else,'” Trump reportedly the mouse to House Republicans during a private meeting in November, shortly after he defeated Democratic former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Speaking to members of the National Rifle Association in May, Trump said, ”I don’t know, are we going to be considered three-year or two-year? Are we three-year or two-year if we win? ”

Trump’s openness to a third term doesn’t come as a surprise to some people who know him.

Former Fox News journalist Geraldo Rivera, who was friendly with Trump for decades in New York, predicted in December that Trump and his allies would soon turn their attention to the 22nd Amendment.

“For future reference: President Trump & Co. will soon start chattering about repealing/amending the 22D amendment limiting presidents to two four-year terms,” ​​Rivera wrote on X.

“While the 22nd Amendment prohibits Trump from being elected president again, it does not prohibit him from serving as president beyond January 20, 2029,” wrote Philip Klinknerprofessor of government at Hamilton College, in a recent article i The conversation.

“The reason for this is that the 22nd Amendment only prohibits someone from being ‘elected’ more than twice,” Klinker wrote. “It says nothing about someone becoming president in any other way than being elected to the office.”

Klinker wrote that a hypothetical scenario would be for Trump to run for vice president in 2028, and have Vice President JD Vance run at the top of the ticket for president.

“If elected, Vance could then resign, making Trump president again,” Klinker wrote. “But Vance would not even have to resign for a Vice President Trump to exercise the power of the presidency.

The 25th amendment The Constitution states that if a President declares that ‘he is unable to perform the powers and duties of the office … such powers and duties shall devolve upon the Vice President as Acting President.’ “

Another scenario Klinker envisioned is Trump encouraging a family member to run for and win the White House. Once elected, they would act as little more than a figurehead president while Trump made the major decisions.