As it stands, America’s 22nd Amendment prohibits someone from running for more than two terms in office; but US Representative Andy Ogles wants this changed.
Instead, Ogles has suggested that the law reads: « No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice. »
Basically, because there was a gap between Trump’s first and second presidency, he should be able to run again for a second consecutive term.
While the likes of Trump and Ogles wants the POTUS to remain in office until 2032, it’s been unclear if US citizens want this to happen.
This has since changed though in the wake of Trump’s latest approval ratings being published.
According to Pew Research Center, only 40 percent of poll participants approve of Trump’s performance in office so far, down seven percent compared to February figures.
Wednesday (April 30) will mark Trump’s 100th day as president.People were also asked for their thoughts on the POTUS’ controversial tariff hikes that’s caused chaos in the global stock market in recent weeks, with 59 percent disapproving on the increases.
In a separate poll by Reuters and Ipsos, respondents were asked if Trump should or shouldn’t run for a third term.
« Three-quarters of respondents said Trump should not run for a third term in office — a path Trump has said he would like to pursue, though the U.S. Constitution bars him from doing so, » Reuters revealed.
« A majority of Republican respondents — 53% — said Trump should not seek a third term, » it added.
While it seems Trump and some of his closest allies are keen for him to run for president again, the same can’t be said for the rest of America…
Taking over Greenland could end up costing America more than just its reputation on the world stage, academics and former administration officials have warned, after they added up the gargantuan cost of annexation.
Trump’s efforts to acquire the vast ice-capped island showed no sign of stopping this week, despite officials from Denmark and Greenland met with Vice President JD Vance to reassert the territory’s independence from US interests.
The meeting ended with both sides continuing to have ‘fundamental disagreements’ over the future of Greenland, which has belonged to Denmark for over 300 years and has just 56,000 citizens.
European allies have even started deploying small military detachments to the Arctic territory amid the threats from their NATO ally, a move that caused President Trump to fire back that ‘there’s not a thing’ they can do to stop him and he will take it ‘one way or the other’.
While the administration has cited ‘national security’ and Russia’s presence in the Arctic Circle as the main reason to acquire the world’s largest island as US territory, this week, the true cost of invasion was revealed to NBC News.
They estimated it would cost as much as $700bn to annex the 800,000 square-mile island, while carrying out hypothetical modeling of an American takeover for the White House. This is more than half the annual budget of the Department of Defense.
“Greenland does not want to be owned by, governed by or part of the United States,” the territory’s foreign minister Vivian Motzfeldt said as they arrived in Washington on Wednesday for the failed talks, where both sides ‘agreed to disagree’.
“We choose the Greenland we know today — as part of the Kingdom of Denmark.”
But officials believe the landmass is key to America’s future strategic interests, as Greenland occupies a key area of the Arctic which climate change has made an increasingly accessible region for Russian assets.
With President Trump keen to reshape America’s geopolitical positioning and projection of power around the world, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated that acquiring Greenland is a ‘high priority’ for his second term.
However, a US official speaking anonymously to NBC has questioned the strategic justification of conquering Greenland, which has had an agreement with the US to allow for an escalation of military assets on the island since the Cold War.
Currently, there is just one large US base on the northwest end of Greenland, Pituffik Space Base, which used to be called Thule Air Base and forms a key part of North America’s early warning system for intercontinental ballistic missiles
As American troops are already treading Greenland’s ice and treaties already allow for a military build-up, the official asked: “Why invade the cow when they’ll sell you the milk at relatively good prices?”
