WASHINGTON, April 1. /TASS/. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not give a direct answer to a question about the possibility of US President Donald Trump running for a third term.
"You continue to ask the president this question about a third term, and then he answers honestly and candidly with a smile, and then everybody here melts down about his answer," she said in response to a reporter’s question. According to the spokeswoman, Trump has already " said it's not really something we're thinking about." "He has four years. There's a lot of work to do. We've done a lot in these nearly first 100 days, and the American people love it," she concluded.
Earlier, the US leader told NBC News that he was "not kidding" when he talked about the possibility of being re-elected for a third presidential term.
According to the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, adopted in 1951, the same person can be elected head of state only twice. According to NBC News, there are two ways to amend the US Constitution to give Trump a legal basis for re-election to a third term. The first would require a two-thirds vote in Congress. In the second, two-thirds of the states (34 out of 50) could call a constitutional convention to propose amendments. Both methods would require further ratification of the amendments by 38 of the 50 states.