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There is a whirlwind of speculation that President Trump might somehow find a way to make good on his ‘not joking’ comments about a potential third (…technically 4th?) term as President of the United States.
(If you got goosebumps, a barely noticeable grin, and felt an immediate adrenaline drop just from reading that — you are my people!)
Even disgraced CNN anchor Jim Acosta is floating his own idea on how he sees it going down, but we’ll get to that in a moment.
First I want to cover what one legal analyst says is the exact ‘loophole’ the President’s lawyers are looking at, because he could be right; or at least not far from what might actually play out.
In multiple exchanges with reporters over the last few days, President Trump himself alluded to there being ‘methods’ (plural!) by which a third term could become reality.
For the most part, everyone is focused on the fact that he said he ‘wasn’t joking’.
But the most telling portion of his comment may simply be his use of the plural word ‘methods’ — which seems to suggest that ALL those ‘methods’ are being examined for a viable path forward.
BREAKING: President Trump say he is ‘not joking’ about seeking a third term in the White House, says ‘there are methods’ for doing so. pic.twitter.com/z9NqjATJ39
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) March 30, 2025
But according to Elie Honig, the senior legal analyst for CNN, the one realistic option that might give him enough wiggle room is a ‘fringy’ loophole.
Elie believes the wording of the 22nd Amendment is at the heart of the President’s lawyers search for a road to another term.
It should come as no surprise that CNN’s top legal analyst is no fan of President Trump, but I suspect he is at least in the right vicinity of any legal grounds that could be used to set up another Trump term in office.
Here’s a clip that aired on CNN, first featuring South Carolina Democrat Rep. Jim Clyburn, spouting the obvious unconstitutional nonsense and lies that we’ve all heard a thousand times before.
But after Clyburn’s mini-tirade, Elie Honig explains what he says is the focus of President Trump’s lawyers:
In case you didn’t catch it, one of the first things Elie Honig said was that “lawyers love wiggle room and escape hatches” — a clear dig at President Trump’s ‘escape’ from the lawfare that had fully encircled him leading up to his re-election in November.
Honig has LONG been a vocal advocate for locking President Trump away for anything the Democrats could scrape together, and his disdain for the President is certainly obvious.
But the technical language of the 22nd Amendment specifies, as Honig points out, that no President should be ELECTED more than twice.
And as Honig floats, the possibility exists that President Trump could run on the presidential ticket as the Vice President, presumably with JD Vance running as the official Presidential nominee.
And then simply ASSUME the Presidency when Vance immediately resigns after taking the oath of office, thereby avoiding the regulation about being ELECTED more than twice.
But as you heard, Honig seemed to destroy that possible path to another Trump term in office by pointing to the 12th Amendment, which reads as follows:
And this is where my ears perked up. Because in my mind, original intent matters when accurately interpreting the Constitution.
And when the 22nd Amendment had been approved by Congress in 1947 and subsequently ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures in 1951, the 12th Amendment was already 147 years old!
The 12th Amendment, stipulating that no one who is ‘constitutionally ineligible’ to hold the office of the President is also not eligible to hold the Vice Presidency, was adopted almost 150 years before the 22nd Amendment.
Which means the ORIGINAL INTENT of the 12th Amendment had NOTHING to do with 22nd Amendment ineligibility requirements — it had to do primarily with citizenship status, a minimum age of 35, and the person must have been living in the United States for the previous 14 years.
The original intent of the 12th Amendment had nothing to do with the a requirement that would come nearly 150 years later.
So although CNN’s high and mighty legal analyst immediately dismissed the possibility of a technical reading of the 22nd Amendment as a path to another Trump presidency…
I’m here to say that possibility holds a lot more water than Trump-hater Elie Honig was willing to admit.
But that shouldn’t come as a surprise, either. Democrats rarely accept the ‘original intent’ requirement for interpreting the Constitution anymore than they apply the same filter to interpreting the Bible — which is why they have trouble correctly interpreting BOTH. (But now I’ve gone from reporting to preaching, so I’ll digress.)
There is also the possibility that President Trump is JUST trolling the Democrats, because he SO EASILY can, as Sen. Hawley pointed out a few days ago:
Sen Hawley, a constitutional lawyer, is careful not to break with Trump re running for a third term
“He’s probably trolling”
“Presidents always complain about that” (term limits)
“You guys need to lighten up” pic.twitter.com/1pwKn4HGcA
— haley talbot (@haleytalbotcnn) March 31, 2025
And while there’s no doubt that he is DEFINITELY trolling the Democrats with his third term talk, I don’t believe that’s ALL he’s doing.
I think there’s a valid path to another term, and I believe him when he says “he’s not joking”.
I ALSO believe him when he says that he’s not seriously focused on that right now, as WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said here:
LEAVITT: “You continue to ask the president this question about a third term and he answers honestly and candidly with a smile, and then everybody here melts down about his answer. He said it’s not something we’re thinking about, we have four years and a lot of work to do.” https://t.co/JY8h5T18Dq pic.twitter.com/ThVj9m781p
— RCP Video (@rcpvideo) March 31, 2025
That almost seems to contradict the President himself, if all you go by is the mainstream media’s reporting of what he actually said.
But even CNN couldn’t help but back up Leavitt’s more comprehensive answer when they reported that President did indeed cap off his comments by saying it’s not something that he’s seriously focused on right now.
Though he repeatedly said he wasn’t joking about a third term, he also very clearly said that “it is far too early to think about it”, according to CNN:
President Donald Trump on Sunday did not dismiss the idea of pursuing a third term in the White House, despite the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution prohibiting it, claiming that “there are methods” to achieving this and emphasizing that he was “not joking.”
“A lot of people want me to do it. But … my thinking is, we have a long way to go. I’m focused on the current,” Trump said in a phone interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker on Sunday.
“There are methods which you could do it,” the president said when asked whether there are strategies on the table to allow him to seek another term. Welker mentioned a possible plan in which Vice President JD Vance would run in 2028 and then “pass the baton” to Trump. “Well, that’s one. But there are others too,” the president said, before refusing to elaborate.
The term-limited president has frequently teased a third presidency but clarified Sunday that he’s “not joking” this time.
“I’m not joking,” Trump told Welker, reiterating, “It is far too early to think about it.”
Here’s a great comprehensive answer straight from President Trump explaining how he looks at the entire issue, since he keeps getting asked about it:
A reporter just asked President Trump about a third term.
Trump: We’ve got a long way to go—almost four years—but despite that, so many people are saying, ‘You’ve got to run again.’ Most importantly, they love the job we’re doing. pic.twitter.com/afAXJiDABD
— Grace Chong, MBI (@gc22gc) March 31, 2025
Meanwhile, Jim Acosta (I promised earlier in this story, and now I’ll deliver!) also foresees President Trump going after another term in office.
But Acosta doesn’t seem willing to engage in logical specifics of how such a thing might truly be done.
Likely blaming President Trump in part for the demise of his career at CNN, Acosta is only interested in spouting the same baseless claims as Rep. Clyburn in that earlier video.
In Acosta’s mind, President Trump WILL go for another term, but he’ll just do it with brute force, irrespective of the Constitution, as reported by Newsweek:
Jim Acosta warned about one way President Donald Trump could attempt to run for a third term in 2028 that he believes may be “realistic.”
He said one “realistic” path for Trump to try to be elected for a third term would be for him to just announce a campaign, even if the Constitution says he cannot.
“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. “And we’ll do these stories all over again about how the Republican party is the party of Trump and they won’t deal with any of this s***.”
Acosta continued that he would tell the Supreme Court,”‘Well, this is what the people want. This is democracy,” triggering a constitutional crisis.
“I mean, I hate to make it sound so realistic, but that, to me, is something that could happen,” Acosta said.
At one point, I wouldn’t have thought there existed any hope of future terms for President Trump short of a similar path involving something accurately described as an uprising.
And at one point, I didn’t think the country could survive without that revolutionary path forward.
Thanks in part to the Constitutional tidbits dropped by Trump-hater Elie Honig at CNN, I now realize that he is likely right in arguing that President Trump’s lawyers are looking hard at the 22nd Amendment.
I’m no constitutional lawyer, but if I can sit here and do the math between the 22nd Amendment and the 12th Amendment and appropriately apply the constitutional guidepost of original intent…
I’m betting President Trump’s lawyers have done that math, as well.
While the pathways to amending the Constitution to allow another term are there, they are hard pathways and unlikely to be successful.
But a third (or fourth term depending on how you count it), could legitimately be a possibility for President Trump — if the outcry from Americans is for it, and if the argument for an originalist interpretation of the Constitution in keeping with ‘original intent’ can stand up in the courts.
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.