Could Trump Serve a Third Term by Running as a Vice President?

[Celerity]

https://www.notus.org/donald-trump/trump-third-term-vice-president



There’s a new long-shot proposal that is getting floated as a possibility for how President Donald Trump could serve a third term. The idea is that Trump would run on the Republican ticket as vice president in 2028, and if it won, the elected president would immediately resign so Trump could carry on into a third term. It’s a plan that has gotten more attention after a group called the Third Term Project, whose goal is to get Trump elected to a third term, popped up at the Conservative Political Action Conference last week.

Republicans and legal experts are largely scoffing at the idea and saying it’s blatantly unconstitutional because of the 22nd Amendment, which says that a president cannot be elected to office more than twice. But some of them said they can imagine a scenario in which Trump’s most ardent supporters try to make the case anyway because technically, he wouldn’t be “elected” as president.

“If Donald Trump is wildly popular in 2028 because he’s had an extraordinarily successful presidency,” former Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks told NOTUS, “yeah, then I think more people are going to look seriously at using the subterfuge to try to circumvent the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution.” “But right now, no,” Brooks said.

Barbara McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor and former U.S. attorney, told NOTUS that while a “fair reading” of the 22nd Amendment would show that its intent was to prevent a president from serving for as long as Franklin D. Roosevelt, the fact that it doesn’t state that directly creates uncertainty. “I worry that textualists will say he is eligible to serve as president,” McQuade said. “He just can’t be elected president. So to me, it is not clear, and I think that that is a potential risk. I think we won’t know until the question is ripe and goes before the Supreme Court, when I imagine someone would try to block that ticket on the ballot.”

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[MineralMan]

1. Could We Just Deal with the Situation That Is Currently Going On?

What's the point of this kind of speculation? It's irrelevant. Trump is President now, so nothing of the sort is needed by him.

[brush]

2. No. If the president dies or is incaacitated, trump as VP would become president so...

a Constitutional amendment would be required for that to happen...and that's not going to happen.

[Drum]

3. He's already serving his second term that way.

[GoodRaisin]

4. He wouldn't do that. He doesn't plan to leave as President.

[Ms. Toad]

5. No, he could not.

If the next person in succession to become president is eligible, that person is skipped over in favor of the next person in the line of succession.

[Emile]

6. Trump is a 'lame duck' president!

[BannonsLiver]

7. A few people living in a pre 1/20/25 world in this thread.

Some old document with 22 at the top of the page will not stop him from trying to do it if he thinks there's a way for it to happen.

[newdeal2]

8. Not likely

One, he will be old as shit. It will be amazing if he survives all four years already.

Two, there are more ambitious men out there who want his spot or would like to screw him over. Think JD or Desantis. They are not going to wait another four years for their turn.