House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday mentioned he has spoken with Donald Trump about the risk of the president looking for a third-term however that he sees no path for it as any change to the US Constitution could be nicely after Trump has left workplace.
“It’s been a great run. But I think the president knows, and he and I have talked about, the constrictions of the Constitution, as much as so many of the American people lament that,” mentioned Johnson, who’s a constitutional lawyer, in response to a query about his comfort-level with the president floating a 2028 bid.
The president, he mentioned, is trolling members of the different celebration when he talks publicly about the matter.
“The Trump 2028 cap is one of the most popular that’s ever been produced. And he has a good time with that, trolling the Democrats, whose hair is on fire about the very prospect,” he advised reporters on Capitol Hill.
Johnson mentioned he had spoken with Trump Tuesday morning whereas the president is abroad in Japan, however he didn’t specify when the pair had mentioned the Constitution.
Amending the Constitution, he famous, could be a prolonged and arduous course of, saying, “I don’t see a way to amend the Constitution, because it takes about 10 years to do that, as you all know, to allow all the states to ratify … what two-thirds of the House, three-fourth of the states would approve. So I don’t, I don’t see the path for that.”
Trump on Monday continued to entertain the concept of working for a third term, telling reporters that he’d “love to do it.”
At the White House, Trump has joked about working for a third term and Trump 2028 hats are on show in a room close to the Oval Office. Recently, Trump posted photos of the ’28 hats on the Resolute Desk when the House and Senate minority leaders, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, got here to the Oval Office.