US President Donald Trump yet again expressed his intentions of running for the third term in White House and said that he was ‘not 100 percent sure’ that the Constitution forbids it.
While addressing Congressional Republicans in Miami, Trump said that he has raised a lot of money for the US presidential elections.
“I’ve raised a lot of money for the next race that I assume I can’t use for myself, but I’m not 100 percent sure, because I don’t know… I think I’m not allowed to run again,” Trump said.
Trump turned to Republican house leader Mike Johnson and added, “I’m not sure, am I allowed to run again? Mike? I better not get you involved in that argument.”
Trump was sworn in for his second spell in the White House on January 20, becoming just the second president in US history to serve two non-consecutive terms.
Earlier during the run-up to the election, Trump had quipped about the possibility that he might go beyond the current two-term limit for US presidents
“It will be the greatest honor of my life to serve not once, but twice, or three times or four times,” he said with a laugh, before adding to cheers from the audience: “Headlines for the fake news.”
In November, in another speech to House Republicans shortly after his election win, Trump said: “I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say, ‘He’s good, we got to figure something else.'”
Trump told an audience of conservative Christians in July, “Christians, get out and vote. Just this time… Four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore.”
Meanwhile, a Republican in the US House also introduced a super-long-shot resolution last week to change the constitution to allow Trump to get another term.
US presidents are limited to two terms in office by the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified in 1951 after Franklin D Roosevelt’s unprecedented four terms as president from 1933-1945.
