The elected president of the United States, Donald Trump, on Wednesday, while heading to the Conference of the Republican Party of the House of Representatives in Capitol Hill, joked about the postcard for a third mandate.
Tribune online He informs that the former president assured his return to the White House after a triumphant victory over the candidate for the Democrats and current vice president Kamala Harris, ensuring 312 electoral votes while winning popular votes.
Before his meeting with President Joe Biden on Wednesday, Trump met with members of his Republican party, joking about continuing at the White House after 2028.
The 78 -year -old jokes: “I suspect that I will not run again unless you say it is so good that we must solve something else.”
President of the United States that served more than two terms
The idea that presidents who consider a third term in office in the United States of America is not new. In fact, the United States had a president who served more than two terms.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, was first elected in 1932 and spent eight years in office, two complete terms. In 1940, Roosevelt challenged again in the presidential elections and won.
The appearance of Roosevelt in 1940 was inspired by his leadership in response to the great depression. He led the country for four years of World War II and was re -elected again in 1944. Roosevelt served as president until his death in April 1945.
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President of the United States: amendment that stops the third term
Two years after the disappearance of Franklin D. Roosevelt, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman, the House of Representatives proposed Joint Resolution 27, asking for an established limit of two terms for future presidents, each with four years.
After some reviews of the Senate and the subsequent derivation to the states for the ratification that lasted four years, the proposed amendment was ratified on February 27, 1951, and adopted as the twenty -two amendment.
“No person will be elected to the president's office more than twice, and no person who has held the position of president, or acted as president, for more than two years of term to which someone else was elected president will be elected to The president's office more than once. But this article will not apply to any person who has the president's office when Congress proposed this article, and will not prevent any person having the president's office, or act as president, during the term within which he becomes this article. operational to hold the position of president or act as president during the rest of said mandate. “
From this amendment, no president of the United States has fulfilled more than two terms.
What Trump “must” do before the 2028 EE. UU elections.
After Donald Trump's jokes about a possible attempt to work again in 2028, for the third mandate, the joke has been current about whether the 47th president of the United States can successfully alter the 22nd amendment.
Of course, Trump had joked about continuing in the White House indefinitely in the past.
However, for Trump to run again and constitutionally in 2028, he must have pressed for the amendment of the current limit.
To achieve this, this proposal must be ratified as an amendment to the “Constitution by three -quarter legislatures of the various states within seven years from the date of its presentation to the states of Congress.”
Only a fast reminder, the amendment 22 spent four years through the Senate and the states before the final ratification.
While this article was originally published on November 14, 2024, Tribune online reports Last week (Friday, January 24, 2025) that a republican legislator, Andy Ogles, has introduced a controversial bill that seeks to amend the constitution of the United States to allow Donald Trump to run for a third mandate in office.
With the Republican Party in Control of the two national legislative chambers in the United States, the controversial bill can become current in the coming weeks, with many anxious about whether the bill will navigate through the Senate, the Chamber and the House of Representatives by ensuring the required approval for a final amendment as issued by law.
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