“Should I try for a fourth term?” asked US President Donald Trump as he floated the idea of running for another term, claiming “record numbers everywhere”.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump revisited his desire to run for another term as US president. However, the biggest obstacle in this path is the US Constitution.
Trump has repeatedly indicated he will run multiple terms of office for a US presidentalthough the US Constitution limits a person to only two terms.
In November 2025, Trump, currently serving his second term in the White House, posted an AI-generated image of himself holding a sign reading “TRUMP 2028, YES!” with the caption “TRUMPLICANS!”.
The Trump Organization also began selling hats emblazoned with “Trump 2028” and t-shirts emblazoned with “Trump 2028 (Rewrite the Rules).
This was despite Trump admitting that the Constitution bars him from seeking a third term. “If you read it, it’s pretty clear,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One en route from Japan to South Korea last October. “I’m not allowed to run. It’s bad.”
However, he reiterated his personal interest in a longer term in office. “I’d love to do it,” Trump said.
But why the “fourth period”?
The president previously suggested that a hypothetical “third term” would actually be his “fourth term.”
Last year in videoTrump told reporters that “in a way” a third term would be “a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election, was totally rigged.” Trump has repeatedly claimed that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him.
Constitutional barrier
The Constitution bars Trump from serving another term; 22 of the amendment reads: “No one may be elected to the office of president more than twice, and a person who has held the office of president or performed the office of president for more than two years during the election period during which another person was elected president may not be elected to the office of president more than once.”
