It Should Require Hell Freezing Over Before A Third Term Trump Presidency Could Happen

One of the craziest ideas we have heard in the last decade was Donald Trump becoming President of the United States. But that was in 2016, when everyone doubted he could beat the seasoned politician, Hillary Clinton. He won the electoral college, becoming the 45th President of the United States. Who would have thought? The man famous for reality television and a stint with Vince McMahon's WWE that ended in Trump shaving his billionaire buddy's head was our president.

Right from the beginning of Trump's term, liberals were on the hunt for a reason to burn the billionaire. It started with sudden public accusations of him being a racist and an exhaustive search of every interview he'd ever given, using every stupid thing he'd ever said to make him look bad. And he had given us plenty of things wonder about, including the famous "grab em by the pussy" and "I could shoot somebody" comments.

Once upon a time, I worked for a political office. While it was a small county Sheriff's Department, there was something that my favorite sheriff said that made the idea of Trump's first term seem like a good idea. Politicians need to run their offices like they're a business to be successful. I imagine that is the reason Trump won. People liked the idea of a billionaire businessman taking the financial reigns of the country.

Only months into his second term, the question of him wanting a third term has come up. The idea of a third term presidency might be because of one of the 21st century's most beloved presidents. Sure, it was probably a joke, a comment made in jest, but after the fiasco that was the Biden presidency and how some of the things during that administration played out, it's had conspiracists buzzing. Trump might have started thinking about a third term because of that interview.

Somehow, in Donald Trump's case, the idea of a president trying an end run around the rules and the constitution doesn't seem so far-fetched. Trump's never-say-die attitude makes it believable that he might try to manipulate himself into a third term. Then there's his impunity, brought about by the Supreme Court ruling granting immunity to the president for anything he does as part of his duties as president.

Could Donald Trump attempt to stay in the Whitehouse after Inauguration Day in 2029?

Here come the constitutional challenges presented by a Donald Trump power grab, and they are what's on his mind as of late if you believe in the news and President Trump's ramblings.

"There are methods which you couild do it..."

-Donald Trump to NBC News

Amendment XXII, Section 1 of the United States 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 has 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."

-US Constitution

The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on February 27th, 1951, following FDR's four terms as president. Before that, there were no formal restrictions on the number of terms a president could serve. There was an informal precedent set by George Washington when he stepped down after two terms.

74 years later, great men are no longer president. Men who come with controversy, men who are unapologetically immoral billionaires set their sights on the Oval Office. Men who have enough circumstantial evidence against them to believe they're in bed with foreign governments are looking to be President. Men with extreme views are popular in a divided America and therefore seek the office.

Never before in the history of the country has there been a scenario where the prior President of the United States becomes the Vice President. Vice Presidents may take the office of the president if the current president is rendered or deemed unable to stay in office, or in the case of another first, resigns from office.

How it could work, depending on the challenges to the constitution and what the legal interpretations and Supreme Court might say, is Trump becomes JD Vances VP. Then, in a shocking surprise, Vance steps aside. Why?

The simple answer is money. Trump, or through a proxy like Elon Musk, could provide enough financial incentive for Vance to step aside.

Trump has incinuated it's possible. He wouldn't be the first person to ponder the idea of a third term or a way to keep control of the Whitehouse. And that makes it look on paper like it could be done. Will he try it? Would he be successful?

Only time will tell.