Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) has proposed a resolution that would allow President Donald J. Trump to serve a third term in the White House. Rep. Ogles’s resolution would amend the 22nd Amendment so that any president could serve three terms, so long as one of those three terms is not consecutive.
If the proposal were to be ratified by the states and Congress, it would mean that President Trump could run for a third term in 2028.
It’s an open question whether Trump would actually seek a third term as of now. Naturally, Democrats are soiling themselves at the idea.
The 22nd Amendment was ratified in 1947 to prevent the horrors of a Franklin D. Roosevelt-style presidency from ever happening again. Roosevelt served three consecutive terms from 1933 to 1945. The American people were so unhappy about it that they ratified the 22nd Amendment.
The amendment states that presidents can serve no more than two terms in office. The resolution that Ogles has proposed would amend the 22nd Amendment as follows:
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, 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 twice.”
In a nutshell, the amendment would allow a president to serve one term, take a break, and then come back and serve two more terms. They couldn’t serve two consecutive terms and then come back to run for a third.
President Trump’s first term ran from January 2017 through January 2021. The most incredible presidential term in American history was then interrupted by the fake and stolen 2020 election. If the Ogles resolution is ratified by Congress and the states, it would allow Trump to now serve two more consecutive terms, including the current one.
Is it realistic that this could happen?
Maybe, maybe not.
Trump carried 31 states plus one electoral vote in Maine in the 2024 election. The Ogles amendment would have to be ratified by the legislatures in 37 states. It might seem impossible right now to flip six states from blue to red in such a short time. Then again, nobody thought that we’d be able to flip all seven of the swing states in the last election.
The other big question is whether Trump would actually run for a third term. During the Joe Rogan podcast back in October, Trump stated, “If I win… this will be my last election.”
After the November election, when he met with House Republicans at the Capitol, Trump seemed to change his mind.
“I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say, ‘He’s so good we’ve got to figure something else out.’”
That remark sent congressional Democrats running for their fainting couches. After they woke Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) up with smelling salts, he immediately filed legislation in November to “clarify” the 22nd Amendment.
“We are a nation of laws, not kings,” declared Goldman.
Ugh… these people are such drama queens!
We’re also a nation that elects presidents, rather than being ruled by an unaccountable shadow committee that props up a dementia potato as a figurehead for four years, so there’s that.
The reason why Democrats are so terrified of President Trump running again is because they know in their evil, blackened little hearts that a majority of the American people have already voted for Donald Trump in three consecutive elections. He won in 2016 and 2024, but the Democrats know that Trump legitimately won the 2020 election as well. That’s why they’ve spent four years suppressing any real investigation of the 2020 election and put people in jail for trying to do so.
Reminder to President Trump’s team members arranging pardons: Colorado county clerk Tina Peters is serving a 9-year prison sentence for investigating the fraud that took place in the stolen 2020 election.
If there’s one thing we’ve all learned when it comes to Donald Trump, it’s that we should never say “never.” Many didn’t believe he’d be able to make a comeback in the 2024 election. I can’t think of anyone who predicted that he’d win all seven swing states. I’m not going to predict at this point that we won’t see a third Donald Trump term in office, no matter how unlikely it seems.
