Can Trump again in 2028? Get the details on term limits for presidents

President-elect Donald Trump's defeated Vice President Kamala Harris successful nan 2024 statesmanlike election, and though he ran for president 3 times, this is nan past word he tin serve. 

The Constitution rules that moreover if nan position aren't consecutive, a personification tin only clasp nan agency of nan president twice. 

Here's everything to cognize astir statesmanlike word limits. 

How galore position tin personification service arsenic president? 

A personification tin service 2 four-year position arsenic president, arsenic outlined in nan Constitution's 22nd Amendment. The position do not person to beryllium consecutive. 

A vice president who serves arsenic president tin tally for 2 position aft that work if they held nan agency of president for little than 2 years. So if a vice president took nan agency of president 1 twelvemonth into a term, they could only tally for agency 1 much time. If they took powerfulness successful nan backmost half of nan term, they could beryllium elected to nan presidency twice. In caller history, President Lyndon Johnson took complete successful 1963 erstwhile President John F. Kennedy was killed, making him eligible to tally successful 1964 and 1968. He yet opted not to tally successful 1968, though he was successful nan title until aft nan New Hampshire primary. 

The 2 position don't request to beryllium consecutive: Until Trump's triumph this week, Grover Cleveland was nan only president to service non-consecutive statesmanlike terms. 

But this intends that Donald Trump, who was elected to agency successful 2016 and successful 2024, cannot beryllium elected president again successful 2028. 

Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump speaks astatine an predetermination nighttime watch statement astatine nan Palm Beach Convention Center, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, successful West Palm Beach, Fla. Evan Vucci / AP

Has anyone been president for much than 2 terms? 

Only 1 personification has served much than 2 position arsenic president: Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was nan longest-sitting president successful United States history, serving from 1933 to 1945. 

That 3rd word led to controversy, according to nan National Constitution Center. The nation's first president, George Washington, had established a precedent of only 2 position successful agency per president, and immoderate saw Roosevelt's break from contented arsenic a threat to democracy. 

In 1947, Congress approved nan 22nd amendment. The amendment was ratified successful February 1951. 

How galore times tin personification tally for president?

There's nary limit to really galore times personification tin tally for president. 

There person been much than a fewer perennial candidates for president passim American history. Harold Stassen, a erstwhile politician of Minnesota, ran for president arsenic a Republican campaigner 9 times betwixt 1944 and 1992. Lyndon LaRouche ran for president successful 8 consecutive elections betwixt 1976 and 2004 — erstwhile arsenic nan campaigner for nan U.S. Labor Party, which he had founded, and 7 times arsenic a campaigner for nan Democratic party. 

What Trump has said astir word limits 

Trump has made a number of comments astir word limits and his clip successful office, though it's unclear if he was serious. In July, he repeatedly told attendees astatine a blimpish Christian arena that they wouldn't "have to ballot anymore" if he was elected to agency successful 2024. Some saw nan comments arsenic a threat to not time off agency aft a 2nd term. 

"Christians, get retired successful vote. Just this time," he said during a reside astatine nan Believers' Summit, an arena hosted by nan blimpish defense group Turning Point Action. "You won't person to do it anymore. Four much years. You cognize what? It'll beryllium fixed. It'll beryllium fine. You won't person to ballot anymore, my beautiful Christians." 

Trump continued: "I emotion you Christians and I'm a Christian. I emotion you, you sewage to get retired and vote. In 4 years, you don't person to ballot again. We'll person it fixed truthful good, you're not going to person to vote."

Trump has mentioned nan thought of a 3rd word much than once. In August 2020, he said he would triumph that predetermination and past "go different 4 years" because "they spied connected my campaign," according to Forbes. A period later, he told crowds he would "negotiate" much clip successful office, saying that he was "probably entitled to different 4 aft (2020)" based connected "the measurement we were treated."

In April 2024, Trump told Time mag that he intends "to service 4 years and do a awesome job" and "wouldn't beryllium successful favor" of an extended term, but during a 2024 reside for nan National Rifle Association, Trump asked supporters if he would beryllium considered "three-term aliases two-term." 

Since losing nan 2020 election, Trump repeatedly falsely claimed that he had won. 

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