The Structure expressly forbids presidents from operating for a 3rd time period. However that hasn’t stopped Donald Trump from elevating it repeatedly — and this time from an official White Home occasion.
“Ought to I run once more? You inform me.” Trump stated on Thursday earlier than a crowded East Room full of principally Black supporters who had been there for a Black Historical past Month occasion held only a month into his second time period.
The group, which included elected officers, like Republicans Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Rep. John James of Michigan, in addition to political appointees and athletes like famed golfer Tiger Woods, responded with chants of: “4 extra years!”
Trump joked that the response from the gang — and his mere floating of the concept, which he regularly does earlier than pleasant crowds however the first time he has completed so in an official capability — would draw “controversy.” The remarks had been first reported by The Washington Post.
The scene occurred amid a backdrop of rising issues that Trump is wielding his presidential energy in a means that the Structure doesn’t allow. The Structure’s 22 Modification bars any president from being elected to greater than two phrases and was ratified some 74 years in the past. However Trump’s early actions in workplace have indicated he is prepared to problem constitutional legislation, by issuing spending freezes on funds allotted by Congress and issuing orders to shutter departments and take over unbiased federal businesses.
And there is not any signal that the MAGA base is tiring of him.
Hours after Trump made remarks a couple of third time period, former adviser Steve Bannon echoed comparable sentiments earlier than the gathering of the Conservative Political Motion Committee.
“The way forward for MAGA is Donald Trump,” Bannon said to a cheering crowd. “We wish Trump in ‘28. That is what they can not stand. A person like Trump comes alongside solely a couple of times within the nation’s historical past. We wish Trump!”
Trump’s remarks a couple of third time period, first reported by The Washington Post, comes as his administration’s official social media account on X, posted a photoshopped picture of him posing on {a magazine} cowl within the type of Time, with a caption that learn: “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!” Trump is understood for hyperbole and boosting his personal private model and picture.
It was a reference to the Trump administration revoking federal approval for congestion pricing a day earlier in New York, laws that goals to cut back visitors by charging sure sections of Manhattan to cost a $9 charge to enter.
