“When President-elect Donald Trump met with House Republicans on Wednesday morning, he suggested he might need their help to try to circumvent the Constitution and run for a third term in the future — a comment that was met with laughter by his friendly audience,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say, ‘He’s so good we’ve got to figure something else out.’”
“One Democrat is moving quickly to make sure that cannot happen. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) plans on Thursday to introduce a resolution clarifying that the Constitution’s two-term limit for presidents applies even if the terms are not consecutive. It asserts that the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which states that a person who has been elected president twice cannot run again, “applies to two terms in the aggregate” and leaves no loophole.”
