Barbara McQuade, Columnist

Here’s How Trump Could Serve a Third Term

Like it or not, there are potential paths for the two-term president to return to the Oval Office.

April 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM UTC

Barbara McQuade is a professor at the University of Michigan Law school, a former US attorney and author of "Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America."

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Could Donald Trump really become president again after his second term ends? The answer is, quite possibly, yes.

The president raised the idea on Sunday during an interview with NBC. Despite a constitutional amendment limiting the election of presidents to two terms, Trump said, “There are methods which would permit it.”