President Trump gave cold water to the idea of serving a third term, an idea that he has often plagued but is forbidden by the Constitution, and instead, Vice President JD Vance or State Secretary Marco Rubio drove as possible successors in an interview on Sunday.
Mr. Trump said in the interview, with NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’, that he was reluctant to be drawn into a debate about who could follow him, but he called Mr. Vance a ‘fantastic, brilliant guy’ and Mr. Rubio ‘Great’. Mr. Trump added that “many” people are great, but said, “You would say that someone is the VP, if that person is excellent, I think that person would have an advantage.”
Mr. Trump has often taken over the idea of a third term, which goes so far to say in March that he was that “No joke” about the possibility and suggest that there were ‘methods’ to the 22nd changeWhich says that no person may be chosen as president more than twice. Last month his family business started the sale of “Trump 2028” merchandise – some with the expression “rewrite the rules” – that contribute to speculation.
On Sunday the interviewer, Kristen Welker, asked Mr. Trump for that merchandise, and the president insisted that many people wanted him to look for a term before he played the idea.
“It is something that, as far as I know, you are not allowed to do,” he said before he added that he did not know whether the ban – that is part of the Constitution – was constitutional.
“There are many people who sell the hat from 2028, but this is not something I want to do,” he said. “I want to have four great years and transfer it to someone, ideally a great republican.”
Four years, Mr. Trump was enough time to do something ‘really spectacular’.
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