Trump keeps toying with a third term — but the Constitution forbids it

A coterie of Trump loyalists is in the early phase of a campaign to rewrite the Constitution so that he can serve another term.

WASHINGTON — A coterie of Donald Trump loyalists is in the early phase of a campaign to rewrite the Constitution so he can serve another term — an idea Trump has done nothing to discourage.

First as a candidate last year and since he took office, Trump has teased, stoked, nurtured, fed and, if nothing else, kept alive the improbable notion that he might run and serve one more time.

“Am I allowed to run again?” Trump said last month at a meeting with House Republicans in South Florida.

The Constitution is clear on that point: He’s not. Under the 22nd Amendment, no one may be elected president more than twice. That rules out Trump.

“There is no argument whatsoever that President Trump can be elected to the office of president again,” J. Michael Luttig, a retired federal appeals court judge who was appointed to the bench by Republican President George H.W. Bush, said in an interview.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-third-term-constitution-forbids-rcna193329

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