The third term of Donald Trump. Is it possible?

Donald Trump once again talks about his third term and even confirms that there is a way. Do constitutional provisions limiting the possibility of applying for the office to two terms leave a gate?

President Donald Trumpin one of the last interviews, he has not yet ruled out the possibility of applying for the third term. In an interview with the journalist, NBC News said that he “likes to work” and that he “does not kid”. He also added that “There are methods thanks to which he could do it“Is it really?

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What does the American constitution say?

Record 22. Amendments to the United States constitution seems quite clear. “Nobody can be elected more than twice as the President's office, and whoever held the office of the president or performed his function during the term of office of another person for over two years cannot be elected to the office of president more than once” (translation after the Sejm Library).

The amendment was proposed in 1947, after the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. So far, this is the only American president who has holded his office more than two terms. In January 1945 he had his fourth inauguration, but he died 82 days later. American legislators decided that they did not want more such cases, which is why they decided to change it. Legislative process He lasted several years and the amendment finally entered into force in 1951. For 74 years, the election of the president for the third time has been excluded by the highest possible American law. So where do Trump's claims come from?

Luka in the constitution?

So what method did the president mean USA? NBC journalist asked him in a Sunday interview if it was a possible script that JD Vance would apply for the office of the president and then give way to him, giving him power. Donald Trump confirmed – saying that this is one of the methods, but “they are different”. Let's stop at this scenario.

The BBC, citing the claims of Trump's scrolls, writes about a possible “luce in the constitution”. 22. The amendment only prohibits the “choice” for the third time (“no one can be chosen …), and nothing says about succession. So if, for example, JD Vance was elected president of the US, and Donald Trump would be his vice president, would it take his current president to take his vanka after sworn in Vanka?

Is it really a gap? The expert explains

The BBC refers to the opinion of Derek Muller, a professor of electoral law at Notre Dame University. He points to the 12th amendment to the American constitution. This says, among others: “The vice president cannot, however, be a chosen person who, according to the constitution, cannot be elected the office of the President of the United States” (translation after the Sejm Library). In his opinion, this means that two terms of the President's Office already held, “disqualify anyone as a candidate for the office of vice president.” And he doesn't think there is a “strange trick” to get around it.

Change of constitution

The change in the current constitution is also mentioned as the possibility of guaranteeing Trump to the third term. Quite an unobvious proposal he has already submitted at the very beginning of the current term Andy Ogles, a member of the Chamber of Representatives from the Republican Party. He postulates to enter “three times” instead of the current “twice”. What's more, his project also assumes that no one can be chosen for an additional term after prior selection for two terms in a row. As the media noticed at the time, because Trump had a break between her terms, the recipe would give him the opportunity to stand again for elections. The presidents of Clinton, Obama or Bush could not start for the third time.

To change the constitution in the US, however, 2/3 of the votes of both chambers of Congress are needed, and then it must be accepted by 3/4 of the states. BBC notes that with such high requirements “Ogles's proposal remains interesting, but a fantasy.”

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