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During a telephone interview Sunday morning with NBC host Kristen Welker, President Donald Trump was asked about running for the Oval Office for a third term, and NBC said he “did not rule it out.”
Currently, there is two-term limit for the presidency, and amending the Constitution to change that rule would be extremely difficult. To abolish the two-term limit would require either a two-thirds vote of Congress, or two-thirds of the states agreeing to call a constitutional convention to propose changes. Either route would then require ratification from three-quarters of the states, NBC News explained.
NBC News did not release audio of the interview, but reported the exchange with Trump as follows:
“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call with NBC News, referring to his allies. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”
“I’m focused on the current,” Trump added, in some of his most extensive comments to date about serving a third term.
When asked whether he wanted another term, the president responded, “I like working.”
“I’m not joking,” Trump said, when asked to clarify. “But I’m not — it is far too early to think about it.”
When asked whether he has been presented with plans to allow him to seek a third term, Trump said, “There are methods which you could do it.”
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) drafted a resolution in January calling for a revision in the presidential term limits, which would allow a president three terms in office, but no more than two consecutive four-year stints. It has not yet been brought up to be voted on.
Ogles’ resolution reads, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”
President Trump is currently 78 years old, and will be 82 by the time his term in office is over.
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President Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an interview with NBC News that he was “not joking.” https://t.co/r4qXWPcnVu
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 30, 2025
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