"Convicted criminal Steve Bannon touched off the latest round of discussion regarding a potential third term for Trump when he told The Economist: "Well he's going to get a third term. So, Trump '28, Trump is going to be president in '28 and people ought to just get accommodated with that." When informed that the 22nd Amendment explicitly prevents Trump from running again, Bannon said: "There's many different alternatives.... At the appropriate time, we'll lay out what the plan is.""
"Again, there are no alternatives, much less "many," to get around the 22nd Amendment. The language is clear. It reads, in pertinent part: "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.""
Donald Trump cannot legally be elected to a third presidential term because the 22nd Amendment prohibits election to the presidency more than twice. No constitutional loophole or untested theory can permit a third term, and running for vice president would not circumvent the amendment. Running for Congress and becoming House speaker would not make an ineligible speaker able to assume the presidency through succession. Efforts to focus on the word "elected" do not create a lawful pathway. Assertions that elections could be delayed or canceled or that alternative plans exist are unsupported by constitutional law and provide no legal route for Trump to serve as president in 2029.
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