President Donald Trump again suggested he may try to run for a third term in office, despite limits set by the 12th and 22nd Amendments.

The president’s comments deflect attention from other controversies. And they freeze the field of potential successors who might steal the spotlight from a lame duck.

Trump is not the only person talking about a third term. Stephen Bannon, an early Trump acolyte who worked as a chief strategist in Trump’s first term and then served months in prison for refusing to testify before the House January 6th Committee, has said there is active consideration about how to make a third Trump term happen.

President Trump is leaving the door open to the idea of seeking a third term – even though that door is apparently firmly closed by the Constitution. His suggestion is eliciting divergent

You tell me.” Offhand musings about a third term in office sound less like bluster and more like a blueprint. The safeguard of the two-term president emerged in direct response to Franklin D ...

Donald Trump’s second term has only just begun, but he and his allies have already started hinting at the possibility of a third. In January, Congressman Andy Ogles noted that the change would ...

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Trump says he's serious about pursuing a third term because of his polls, though that's not allowed under the Constitution.