Jim Acosta Floats 'Realistic' Way Trump Could Attempt Third Term

He starts getting on ballots in various primary states, caucus states, and of course these state party chairmen and chairwomen and so on are not going to stand up to him,

he said

People are asking me to run, there's a whole story about running for a third term. I don't know, I've never looked into it. They do say there's a way you can do it, but I don't know about that,

the president told reporters in the Oval Office

Whether he says he's in the mix or not, he's going to be in the mix because that's Donald Trump. He sucks all of the oxygen out of the political news cycle,

Blizzard said

I think this is an example of a diversion. Trump likes to throw diversions out there strategically at different times,

said Matt Mackowiak, a Republican strategist

Most of the [GOP] base is probably sitting there enjoying how much the mainstream media and the left are losing their minds about that possibility,

said Robert Blizzard, a Republican pollster

I think sometimes the president likes to shake a can with a stone in it, ... get everyone's attention, and then throw it off to the side and watch people scramble."

Nicholas said

Adam White (zoologist)event, critic

I assume President Trump is trying to avoid lame duck status as long as possible,

said Adam White, a law professor at George Mason University

I was with 300 Republicans last night and it didn't come up,

Power told Newsweek on Tuesday

The constitutional amendment [approach] is politically implausible, and the VP strategy is legally untenable,

he added

That would be a good one, I’d like that,

the president emphasized

Look, you guys continue to ask the president this question about a third term, and then he answers honestly and candidly with a smile, and then everybody here melts down,

she told reporters

No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice, 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 once,

the 22nd Amendment states

No, it will be to serve twice. For the next four years, I will not rest."

He later clarified

It will be the greatest honour of my life to serve, not once but twice or three times or four times,

Trump said at the Nevada rally, according to CNN

I’m not joking...It is far too early to think about it,

the President said

Steve Scalisehouse Majority Leader

There's a lot of things the president talks about ... ultimately it gets people talking and addresses some other issues too,

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) told reporters on Monday, referring to other grand ideas Trump has floated, such as taking over Greenland or the Panama Canal

Under any reasonable interpretation of the 22nd Amendment, he can’t run again,

said Jeremy R. Paul, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University

Everywhere there are term limits, there are vulnerabilities,

said Michigan State law professor Brian Kalt

If the man who created the disastrous 'New Deal' gets more than two terms, then the man who created the 'Art of The Deal' should get the same,

Ogles posted to X on Monday

The meaning of the 22nd Amendment could not be clearer,

he said