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https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday...stion-he-would-do-away-with-presidential-term
President Trump on Sunday rejected any suggestion that he would try to change the Constitution to allow himself to run for a third term.
"Can you envision a situation well into your second term where you think that you’re so good for the country and so essential for the progress of the country that you would try to amend the Constitution so you could serve a third term?" Chris Wallace asked Trump during an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
"No," Trump responded. "Just won't happen."
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Trump said he like the sound of 'president for life' after the president of China abolished term limits. Amending the Constitution is not a simple matter, like signing an executive order. Barring anyone from running for more than 2 terms is the 22nd amendment:
FDR was the first and only president to serve more than two terms. Passed by Congress in 1947, and ratified by the states on February 27, 1951, the Twenty-Second Amendment limits an elected president to two terms in office, a total of eight years.
President Trump on Sunday rejected any suggestion that he would try to change the Constitution to allow himself to run for a third term.
"Can you envision a situation well into your second term where you think that you’re so good for the country and so essential for the progress of the country that you would try to amend the Constitution so you could serve a third term?" Chris Wallace asked Trump during an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
"No," Trump responded. "Just won't happen."
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Trump said he like the sound of 'president for life' after the president of China abolished term limits. Amending the Constitution is not a simple matter, like signing an executive order. Barring anyone from running for more than 2 terms is the 22nd amendment:
FDR was the first and only president to serve more than two terms. Passed by Congress in 1947, and ratified by the states on February 27, 1951, the Twenty-Second Amendment limits an elected president to two terms in office, a total of eight years.