Trump says he would like to face Obama in third-term candidacy

WASHINGTON — President Trump said Monday he’d be eager to run against former President Barack Obama — if the US Constitution is changed to allow the men to seek a third term.“I’d love that — that would, that would be a good one,” Trump, 78, told reporters in the Oval Office as he was joined by Kid Rock, who wore a bedazzled red outfit and a matching cowboy hat, at an executive order signing intended to curb concert ticket scalping.“I know people are asking me to run.And this whole story about running for a third term, I don’t know.

I never looked into it.They do say there’s a way you can do it, but I don’t know about that.

But I have not looked into it.I want to do a fantastic job.

We have four years,”Trump, 78, said Sunday in an interview with NBC that he could skirt the Constitution’s two-term restriction through a loophole in which Vice President JD Vance would lead the Republican ticket, with Trump as running mate.Vance, 40, would then resign to allow Trump to become president again.Obama, 63, has remained an important behind-the-scenes force in Democratic politics and his influence was widely suspected as his friends and allies forced then-President Joe Biden to drop out of last year’s election over doubts about his cognitive fitness.Trump was a leader of the “birther” movement during Obama’s presidency — questioning whether he was truly born in Hawaii rather than abroad, which would have disqualified him from holding the office.The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, says “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice” — potentially allowing for that loophole.Rep.

Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) in January introduced a constitutional amendment to allow Trump to be elected to a third term, though that legislation was written in such a way as to bar Obama from running again.The rewrite would say, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to an...