Trump & Presidential Term Limits

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The president has flirted with — and walked back — suggestions he would seek a third term in office, which runs counter to the 22nd Amendment's provisions on term limits. But that's not stopping supporters & academics from exploring ways the amendment's language may be interpreted differently.

This episode: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, voting correspondent Hansi Lo Wang, and senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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1:05.3	I have a lot of follow-up questions.
1:07.7	Interesting.
1:08.7	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.
1:10.8	I'm Deepa Shivaram. I cover the White House.
1:12.7	I'm Hansi Luong. I cover voting. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.
1:17.4	And today on the show, we're looking at comments made recently by President Trump about the possibility of getting a third term in office.
1:25.2	This came up in an interview with NBC News over the weekend, where Trump told
1:28.4	meet the press moderator Kristen Welker over the phone that, quote, a lot of people want me to do it and that
1:33.9	he wasn't joking about it. He said, quote, there are methods which you could do it. Yesterday in the
1:39.2	Oval Office, though, he seemed to walk that idea back a little bit. People are asking me to run and there's a whole story about running for third term.
1:47.2	I don't know.
1:47.7	I never looked into it.
1:49.9	They do say there's a way you can do it, but I don't know about that, but I have not looked
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