A Republican congressman presented this Thursday a resolution that, if approved, would open the door to a third term of donald trump as president of the United States.
The proposal was carried out by Tennessee representative Andy Ogles and seeks to establish a change in the 22nd Amendment of the US Constitution, which limits presidential terms in the North American nation to only two.
Ogles proposes a constitutional amendment to allow Trump and future presidents the chance to serve three terms, inform American media.
In a statement In which he harshly attacked the Biden Administration—whose policies he classified as “catastrophic”—the Republican congressman defended his proposal with the idea that the current president will need more time to “restore the greatness of the United States.”
“President Trump’s decisive leadership stands in stark contrast to the chaos, suffering and economic decline that Americans have endured over the past four years. “He has proven to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decline and restoring America’s greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to achieve that goal,” he said.
In words addressed to his colleagues in Congress, Ogles considered it “imperative” that legislators provide the Republican president with “all the necessary resources” to correct what he calls “the disastrous course set by the Biden administration.”
“We, as legislators and as States, must do everything in our power to support it,” he added.
I just introduced a resolution to amend the 22nd Amendment to allow President Trump to seek a third term. Read the details.https://t.co/OTacpt3ggE
— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) January 23, 2025
Is it possible?
Ogles’ resolution comes just three days after Trump assumed the presidency for the second time, during which time he has shaken the country with a battery of executive orders outlined since his campaign and has made his “America First” policy clear to the world. ”.
Analysts believe that the proposal has no chance of moving forward in Congress, but it is an indicator of the degree of loyalty that the president enjoys among Republicans in the House of Representatives.
It comes two months after another representative, New York Democrat Dan Goldman, presented a resolution to the contrary. This initiative reaffirms that the 22nd Amendment limits presidential terms to two and also applies to Trump, even when his terms are not consecutive.
The constitutional amendment was approved by Congress in 1947 and ratified four years later by the necessary number of states to make it official. It sought to prevent a president from remaining in office for more than two terms, after, in an exceptional episode in American history, Franklin D. Roosevelt won four consecutive elections, although he died less than 90 days after his fourth investiture, in 1945.
As for Trump, the media and figures close to him assure that he is open to the possibility and recall that on several occasions he has hinted at his willingness to serve more than two terms if he had the support and mechanisms necessary for this, such as a constitutional change. .
