Trump makes a joke that “loves” to run against Obama in the hypothetical third -term presidency
President Donald Trump He said that “I would like to” run against former president Barack Obama in a hypothetical third -term race for the presidency that has float in the last few days.
“I know it is hypothetical right now, but if you were allowed to run for a third term, there is the thought that the democrats could try to run Barack Obama against you? “Peter Doocy of Fox News asked Trump on Monday evening from the oval office.
“I’d like to,” Trump replied. “I would like … it would be good. I would like to. And no, people ask me to run, and there is a whole story of running for a third term. I don’t know, I have never looked at it. They say there is a way to do it, but I don’t know.”
Trump said he did not examine the potential legal roads of the race for a third presidency, saying that he remained almost four years of his mandate and is focused on doing a “fantastic work”.
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The President of the United States Donald Trump speaks to the media in the oval office at the White House of Washington, DC (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)
The 22nd amendment to the ConstitutionWhich was ratified in 1951, prevents the presidents from serving more than two terms. The amendment was ratified after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president for four terms.
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Former United States President Barack Obama takes a break while he speaks during day 2 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, the United States, 20 August 2024. (Reuters/Alyssa pointer)
Roosevelt died during his fourth mandate and Vice -President Harry Truman hired the presidency. FDR is the only president of the history of the nation that was elected and served more than two terms, which was largely due to the political and economic climate at home and abroad, with its presidency that took place in the midst of the great depression and the beginning of the Second World War.
The President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt at his desk in the oval office at the White House of Washington DC, 1934. (Group of universal images/images through Getty Images)
Trump has made fun of that he could run for a third term in an interview with NBC News on Sunday, saying that he is not “joking” on making another race for the Oval Office and enjoys working.
“There are methods you could do,” Trump said when he was asked how he could go Running information for a third term. NBC News float a possible method during the interview in which vice -president JD Vance could run for the presidency, win and pass the torch to Trump. The president said that such a scenario is one of the methods he could use to serve a third term.
Former president Obama gnaws during a conversation with the president elected Donald Trump at the funeral service for former president Jimmy Carter on Thursday. (Getty Images)
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“It’s too early to think about it,” added another potential race.
