Trump Says He Is Serious About a Third Term

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : One can envision that, for any Republican, supporting Trump in 2028 will soon become a prerequisite for good standing.
56% : "I'm a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028," Steve Bannon, who served as Trump's chief White House strategist during his first term, said in an interview with NewsNation's Chris Cuomo last month.
55% : But that's not stopping Trump loyalists from making clear that they consider this a noble and achievable goal.
51% : Ogles, who has made a subspecialty of gratifying Trump through boutique legislation tailored to his passion projects, has already introduced a resolution that would amend the Constitution to allow a president to run for a third term.
50% : Assuming they win, Vance would step aside and Trump would retain his accustomed office, reaching the age of 86 if he served a full term.
49% : It begins with Trump musing over some seemingly outlandish idea -- say, his desire for the United States to annex Greenland.
43% : This would seem to open the door to a dream showdown pitting Trump against his twice-elected predecessor, Barack Obama.
41% : Trump would be the only living president, or ex-president, eligible to run again -- other than, well, Biden, if he's still interested.
37% : By now it should be clear to Republicans that, however ridiculous -- and funny -- Trump can seem, he should always be taken seriously.
36% : It was not immediately clear how serious Trump was, or whether he was just savoring the flattery of being asked these questions again and again.
34% : Several Republicans have pointed out that the Constitution doesn't allow Trump to run for a third term.
33% : "I'm not joking," Trump told Welker.
33% : (The Constitution says that you can't be elected more than twice to the presidency, Trump supporters like to point out, not that you can't serve more than twice -- a potential loophole that few constitutional scholars credit and that hasn't been tested in the courts.)
32% : The Greenland gambit graduates to a legitimate intra-NATO disturbance -- and then no one is questioning whether Trump is serious.
31% : " Trump is "just having some fun with it," Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on the same subject.
27% : The White House could make clear that refusing to support Trump's remaining in office will be considered an act of disloyalty.
26% : His answers always contain enough tantalizing ambiguity to keep people interested: What plans exactly? "There are -- not plans," Trump said to Welker, correcting himself, if not clarifying anything.
26% : Read: Why Trump says he's 'not joking' about a third term "I'm just telling you I have had more people say, 'Please run again,'" Trump reminded reporters aboard Air Force One a few hours after the Welker interview aired.
26% : Even if they note that Trump is constitutionally ineligible to run again, that would not stop anyone from asking whether they support an amendment to change the Constitution.
17% : Anastasia Edel: Why America's oligarchs may regret their obedience One alternative involves Trump running as a vice-presidential candidate on a 2028 ticket with Vance.
16% : And yet. "It kinda sounded like he was joking," Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas told reporters about the third term that Trump expressly had said he was not joking about.
13% : Probably the most shameful example occurred when Trump refused to concede the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, then did nothing as his supporters ransacked the U.S. Capitol.

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