President-elect Donald Trump He told House Republicans that he would not run for a third term as president unless they found a way to make it possible.

“Unless you say, ‘He’s so good, we have to find something else,’ I think I won’t run again,” Trump said in his speech to the House Republican Conference in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, November 13. The crowd chuckled in response to his words.

according to 22nd Amendment According to the Constitution, no president can serve three terms. A person can only be elected president twice and cannot serve for more than 10 years in total; This means that a person moving from vice president to president can run for two more terms if his first presidency lasts less than two years.

Trump has We talked about the three-term presidency before.. At the National Rifle Association convention in May 2024, the former president allowed the late president to serve more than two terms.

“You know, FDR, 16 years – almost 16 years. He served four terms,” ​​Trump said. “I don’t know, will we be considered three terms or two terms? You name it.”

The 22nd Amendment was passed in 1947 and ratified in 1951, after Roosevelt’s four terms as president.

Just before voting for himself on Nov. 5, the president-elect told reporters outside Mar-a-Lago that the 2024 campaign will likely be his last: New York Times reported.

trump oldest president to be elected In the history of the United States. Just three years older, Joe Biden holds the record for oldest sitting president, but Trump will surpass him by the end of his upcoming term.

The president-elect will become the 47th US president on January 20, 2025.