Americanswers…on 5 Live! Could Trump run for a third term?
Americast
BBC
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
‘A lot of people want me to do it’ was Donald Trump’s answer when asked in an NBC interview on Saturday if he wanted to serve a third term as US President. The Constitution says that “no person…shall be elected more than twice”. In today’s Q&A with Matt Chorley on 5 Live, Mariana and Justin unpack whether Trump could rewrite history. The team also discuss whether the million-dollar cheques that Elon Musk has been handing out in Wisconsin ahead of a tightly contested Supreme Court Election are illegal. Comedian Amber Ruffin has been dropped from hosting the White House correspondent’s dinner – what’s going on? And is Donald Trump really going to invade Greenland, or attempt to buy it – or something else entirely?
HOSTS: • Matt Chorley, 5 Live presenter • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, Social Media Investigations Senior Correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Is Donald Trump going to invade Greenland? That's the subject, |
| 0:08.0 | one of the subjects that we've been discussing on this edition of AmeriCast, which is the live |
| 0:13.9 | edition, the one that goes out on Five Live. What if he's not going to invade it, is he actually |
| 0:18.6 | going to do to it? And as ever, we couldn't do an episode of AmeriCast without talking about Elon Musk. This time he's not going to invade it, is he actually going to do to it? And as ever, we couldn't |
| 0:21.2 | do an episode of America's without talking about Elon Musk. This time, he's been handing out |
| 0:25.4 | those big checks to people in Wisconsin, $1 million, all about the Supreme Court elections |
| 0:31.9 | they're having there. So we talk a little bit about that. And we're also going to talk about |
| 0:35.0 | whether Donald Trump is going to be there forever and ever and ever. In other words, could he actually run for a third term? The Constitution |
| 0:40.8 | seems to say no. He says a lot of people want me to do it, and maybe there are ways he could. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to AmeriCast. |
| 0:51.7 | AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 0:54.7 | You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. |
| 0:57.5 | You're gambling with World War III. |
| 0:59.7 | President Trump's message is very simple. |
| 1:01.8 | We are done being taken advantage of. |
| 1:03.6 | Mr. President, in the name of our God, have mercy upon the people. |
| 1:07.9 | We're scared now. |
| 1:09.0 | Are you supportive of these onesies? |
| 1:11.1 | I'm supportive of vaccines. |
| 1:12.7 | What is happening? |
| 1:13.8 | Like, this is not America. |
| 1:15.5 | This is a terrible nightmare. |
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