« Reply #25 on: December 23, 2024, 08:56:30 pm »
Guys, the text of the 22nd Amendment is pretty clear:
Twenty-Second Amendment
Section 1
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 2
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.
Thus, a person can only serve as President ten years max, the final two years of a preceding deceased or resigned president, and two elected terms in their own right. Remember the context of the amendment...Franklin Roosevelt died only a month into his 4th elected term, and Vice President Harry Truman stepped up to serve out the remainder of that term, for three years, and was himself re-elected in 1948. As for Truman:
Because of the grandfather clause in Section 1, the amendment did not apply to Harry S. Truman, the incumbent president at the time it was submitted to the states by the Congress. This full exemption allowed Truman to run again in 1952. He had served nearly all of Franklin Roosevelt's unexpired 1945–1949 term and had been elected to a full four-year term beginning in 1949. But with his job approval rating at around 27%, and after a poor performance in the 1952 New Hampshire primary, Truman chose not to seek his party's nomination.
Thus, the most that Trump could theoretically serve is 10 years---two full elected terms plus 2 years IF he then served as Vice President for a future President and had to step up for whatever reason to finish two years of that term. The chances of that are nil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
« Last Edit: December 23, 2024, 09:07:48 pm by Timber Rattler »
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