Trump's Third Term

“I’ve raised a lot of money for the next race that I assume I can’t use for myself, but I’m not 100% sure.” ~President Trump

The 22nd Amendment

Prior to 2024, the United States only had one president who served two nonconsecutive terms. The “Double President” designation belonged solely to President Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd and 24th President. After President Trump’s win last November, he became the 45th and 47th President of the United States, earning him the historic designation of becoming the second “Double President.”

Just as there was only one president before President Trump who served nonconsecutive terms, there was also only one president who served more than two terms. Franklin Roosevelt was elected four times and served from 1933 until his death in 1945. When World War II broke out in 1940, Roosevelt cited the need for stable leadership as justification to campaign for a third term. That election broke the two-term precedent that had been honored since President George Washington. At that time, there were no formal laws restricting a person from serving more than two terms. It wasn’t until 1947 that Congress secured the votes needed to pass the 22nd Amendment which regulated the term of a president to no more than two terms. The Amendment was ratified by the states in 1951.

The 22nd Amendment not only set the rule that no person can be elected as President more than twice, but it also limited a person to being elected to one term if they had served more than two years of another president’s term. For example, President Gerald Ford was only eligible to be elected to one full term, since he had served more than two years of President Nixon’s term.

The Third Term

President Trump is an indirect communicator. When he speaks, he relies on the intelligent members of his audience to read between the lines to understand his message. He often makes comments to troll them, while telling us to focus on what he is saying. It’s probably why so many members of the media and the Democrats don’t understand him. They aren’t intelligent enough.

There is a difference between “hearing” and “listening.” "Hearing" is detecting sound with your ears, while "listening" involves paying attention and understanding the message. How many people are really listening to what President Trump says? When he brought up the idea of a third term again, his opponents jumped on it. Senator Chris Coons was so bothered over it he asked Pam Bondi during her confirmation hearing if President Trump was eligible to run for another term as President in 2028. Pam Bondi responded, “Not unless they change the Constitution.”

Senator Coons’ word choice is interesting. Rather than ask if President Trump could serve a third term, he specifically asks if President Trump is eligible to run for another term - in 2028. The answer to that specific question is no, not without a constitutional amendment, just as Bondi says. What if it isn’t President Trump’s intention to run and be elected to another presidential term in 2028. What if there is another way for him to serve a third term?

He’s made the comment about a third term more than once:

Is there any way that he could legally serve a third term? Despite the media’s lies that he will be a tyrannical dictator, he isn’t going to change the Constitution on his own or stay in office indefinitely. Although my knowledge is limited, it didn’t stop me from trying to figure out how a third term might work. For each scenario, I researched what I could find to determine if and how he might legally and constitutionally be allowed to serve three terms as President.

He Loves That Chart

The first scenario was centered around the Devolution Theory. During a rally in 2022, President Trump said, “my second term which we’re sort of having right now,” which was an odd thing to say since it was during Joe Biden’s term. If you followed Devolution, then you probably understand the idea that someone other than Joe Biden was in control during his term, and it wasn’t Obama. Even though President Trump referred to Biden’s term as his second, I don’t think he was considering that as a second term, and 2024 as his third. I think he’s being literal that he may be entitled to a third term.

The connection between a third term and Devolution in my mind originated with his immigration chart. It’s impossible for me to know exactly how many times he’s shown the chart that he claims to love so much. He’s presented that chart at many of his rallies and speeches.

No one in the media has bothered to ask him to explain the chart. Although I have my suspicions, I can’t say with complete certainty what the comment, “Trump leaves office” is implying. The comment is referring to the spring of 2020, while it should be pointing to the first hashmark in 2021 when we believe he left office.

This isn’t an error. The mayor of a small town wouldn’t allow a mistake like that to remain uncorrected in a public presentation, let alone the President of the United States. He still references this chart, and presented it as recently as the January 19th rally, the night before his Inauguration.

Showing a chart with an arrow saying “Trump leaves office,” in the spring of 2020 makes me believe that, well, he’s telling us that he left office in the spring of 2020. What else could it mean? But how could he have done that? Thinking that he may have devolved the government in the spring of 2020 led me to question if that would allow him to serve another term. Are there loopholes in the 22nd Amendment that would have allowed for that? As far as I can tell, there is no basis for him to serve a third term based on the theory that he may have devolved the government in the spring of 2020.

Repealing the 22nd Amendment

As Pam Bondi told Senator Coons at her confirmation hearing, it would take a change to the Constitution for President Trump to be elected as President more than twice. Making a change to the Constitution would require repealing the 22nd amendment. According to the Constitution Center, the chance of any constitutional amendment being repealed would be roughly the same as a person being struck by lightning during their lifetime. It is very rare. In fact, only one amendment has ever been repealed. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment, which created the prohibition of alcohol.

In order for an amendment to be repealed, it must be proposed by a majority of Congress, or by a convention of a majority of state legislatures. Three quarters of the states would also need to ratify the proposed amendment. By today’s standards, to repeal an amendment, 290 members of the House, and 67 members of the Senate would need to propose it, and 38 states would need to approve it. Republicans hold 218 seats in the House, and 53 Senators. Unless some of the Democrats agreed to it, the Republicans don’t have the votes to propose the amendment. President Trump didn’t win 38 states so even if the amendment was proposed, the chances of it being ratified would be slim.

An amendment would change the Constitution going forward, allowing future presidents to serve more than two terms. In a 1987 New York Times article, President Reagan said that he wanted to start a movement to repeal the 22nd Amendment, after he left office. The change wouldn’t affect him but would change it for future presidents. He felt that the two-term limit interfered with the right of the people to vote for someone as often as they liked.

In order to end term limits for the President, we need a guarantee that our elections are free and fair. It’s curious why the President is limited to two terms, but Mitch McConnell is serving his seventh term as Senator. Either remove the term limits for the President or add term limits for Congress. Once our elections are fixed, of course.

If President Trump is allowed to implement his agenda, which I have no doubt he will do, there may be enough support – on both sides – to repeal the 22nd Amendment. If the swamp is drained, election integrity is guaranteed, our financial system is rebuilt, income taxes are abolished, tariffs start flowing into our country, and America honestly is great again, only the lowliest Marxists wouldn’t vote to continue that. I’m sure everyone has an opinion on the 22nd Amendment. My opinion is that if our elections were legitimate, we may not need term limits. The people will take care of ridding our government on people who don’t belong there (Marxists and RINOs).

Election Fraud

President Trump held nothing back when he repeatedly told us that our elections are rigged. He hasn’t said it since he was elected, for obvious reasons, but that doesn’t mean the system has been fixed. Although I thought, and hoped, that election fraud would be exposed prior to or during the certification on January 6th, that didn’t happen. Making America Great Again can’t happen if our elections are rigged. Is it reasonable to believe that the only person to have progressed as far as he has in fixing America will leave without addressing the most important issue?

There isn’t a fiber in my body that believes our elections are free and fair. There is no one who can guarantee our elections are legitimate. Any time I see a social media post of someone criticizing voters for choosing to vote for someone like Dick Durbin it frustrates me. How could anyone believe that the majority of Illinoisans would choose Dick Durbin for 29 years?

Has the chapter on fraud in the 2020 election been closed? Were all avenues exhausted to expose the true results of that election? If President Trump won the 2020 election, as he told us he did, would he be entitled to serve the four years from that term? According to ChatGPT, if a candidate wins an election but doesn't take office, they retain the right to run in future elections. There are so many questions and since we’re living in unprecedented times, it’s difficult to find the answers.

The statute of limitations is typically 5 years for fraud related to federal elections. It will be five years from the 2020 election this November. Does that mean that the fraud needs to be exposed by then? If the election was fraudulent, wouldn’t that be an insurrection? President Trump told us that the real insurrection took place on election day, 2020. Since the Democrats love throwing that word around so much, I could see that being used against them.

Senator Coons asked Pam Bondi if President Trump would be eligible to run again for President in 2028. What if he didn’t have to run? What if the 2020 election is overturned and it’s proven that President Trump won that election, but was not permitted to take office due to the insurrectionists. Would that make him eligible for a third term? Had he been allowed to take office in 2020, he wouldn’t have been eligible to run in 2024. Is it possible he could receive another four-year term to make up for the election that was stolen from him in 2020? As a Trump supporter, wouldn’t you demand that? I know I would. We suffered through decades of Democrat corruption. Will we let a stolen election slide? Doubtful.

So, is exposing election fraud the way it may be possible for President Trump to become the first president since the 22nd Amendment to serve more than two terms? Unprecedented times call for unprecedented solutions.

A New Election

Since there is no way to know how this would play out, I also had to consider if another election might be held if election fraud were exposed. Would that make President Trump and J.D. Vance ineligible until a new election was held?

Under the Succession Act, the Speaker of the House becomes the acting president in the event the President and Vice President are unable to discharge the duties of the presidency.

Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President

If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President.

Mike Johnson is the Speaker of the House. He would have to resign his position to become the acting president. Next in line would be the Senate president pro tempore, Chuck Grassley. Is it possible Mike Johnson was aware of this plan from the beginning? Have we learned yet what the secret is between President Trump and Mike Johnson?

Is there a plan in place to have election fraud revealed, and President Trump and J.D. Vance will have to step away while a new election is held? Will Speaker Johnson serve as acting president during that time?

There are probably many more scenarios I haven’t considered. The media is again displaying their irrational derangement about the idea of him serving three terms. Politico came up with some ideas for how he could accomplish it:

The media has convinced themselves that the election of 2020 was legitimate and would never consider that it may someday be exposed. Running for vice president just to ascend back to the presidency doesn’t seem like something President Trump would do. Neither does simply refusing to leave. The media doesn’t listen.

I can’t help but think that President Trump has something planned, and I’m excited about the thought of it. If it were up to me, I’d love it if the fraud from 2020 was exposed and we were given back the four years they took from us. If President Trump is willing to stay President until 2032, I’m willing to support him. By then, America should be firmly rooted against the Marxists.