President Donald Trump said in a March 30 interview that “there are methods” for him to serve a third term in the White House, and a Daily Mail article referred to a “loophole” in the 22nd Amendment that would make it possible.
But legal experts told us the “loophole” legal argument is “implausible” and “defeats the clear intent” of the amendment.
Read more: https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/legal-scholars-dispute-constituti...
Teaching Resource on the Possibility of a Third-Term for Trump
by Michael Keany
Apr 22
Legal Scholars Dispute Constitutional ‘Loophole’ for a Third Trump Term
President Donald Trump said in a March 30 interview that “there are methods” for him to serve a third term in the White House, and a Daily Mail article referred to a “loophole” in the 22nd Amendment that would make it possible.
But legal experts told us the “loophole” legal argument is “implausible” and “defeats the clear intent” of the amendment.
Read more: https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/legal-scholars-dispute-constituti...