Trump says he’s not joking about third term

President Donald Trump is serious about serving a third presidential term, according to a Sunday interview with NBC. The president told Kristen Welker during a phone interview that he wasn’t joking about serving a third term, but it was too soon to earnestly discuss it. People are loving the Trump administration’s work and are pushing for a third term run, Trump said later the same day in another interview on Air Force One. Regardless of the support, it’s still about four years away, he added. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only president to serve more than two terms. He served about three months into his fourth term when he died in April 1945.

If FDR served more than two terms, why can’t Trump? George Washington’s example of stepping down after serving two presidential terms set an unofficial term limit that decades of presidents followed. FDR’s time in the White House marked the first time a president served more than two terms. As a result, Congress ratified the 22nd Amendment in 1951 and formally limited presidents to serving a maximum of two four-year terms.