Donald Trump has ummed and ahhed about whether he will seek a third term as US president. The country’s constitution forbids it, experts agree. But, nevertheless, Trump has hinted that he could seek another four years in the Oval Office. The 79-year-old said in May, that he will be “a two-term president”. “I always thought that was very important,” he added. In August, the president said he would “probably not” run again. However, he then told CNBC’s Squawk Box: “I’d like to run… I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had.”
In March, he suggested that there were methods for seeking another term, and he was “not joking”. “A lot of people want me to do it,” the Trump said. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”
Neurological expert Dr. Narinder Kapur told the Express that having a president aged 87 would “really be going beyond the pale”.
In terms of Trump’s behaviour, Dr. Kapur believes that the number of “exaggerations or errors” the president has made in recent months – including mistaking Alaska for Russia during the lead up to his meeting with Vladimir Putin in September – are “almost certainly going to increase”.
“I suspect the number of things he’s saying and doing would be really quite significant,” he said.
“So I don’t think he would probably be in a category of a super-age.”
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The 22nd amendement to the US Constitution reads: “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.
“But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.”
Section two adds: “This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.”