Donald Trump’s online store is selling merchandise with the slogan “Trump 2028”, despite the President being banned from running for a third term.Fans of the Republican can buy themselves the signature red hat, as well as T-Shirts that feature “rewrite the rules” in brackets. Can coolers can also be purchased on the website. “Make a statement with this Made in America Trump 2028 hat,” a product description on the Trump Store website reads, which also features a photo of his son Eric donning the headwear.
Trump appears to be set on running again in 2028, which would mean amending the country’s highest law would require a two-thirds majority in both Congressional chambers.The Constitution’s 22nd amendment, which came into effect in 1951, expressly forbids a third term.
Trump, who also served as president from 2017 to 2021, has insisted he is “not joking” about a third term.
The President, who has seen his approval rating sink in recent opinion polls, said last month that are “methods” that would allow it to happen.
In an interview with NBC in March, the 47th President said that whilst it was “far too early to think about it”, he said that “a lot of people want me to do it”.LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:Donald Trump ‘called Kyiv’s bluff’: Top aide talks up peace plan as deal ‘close as humanly possible’Trump suffers blow as Vatican set to ‘favour royalty’ at funeralDonald Trump aide blasts ‘cretinous’ MPs trying to block president’s address to Parliament”I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know… It’s very early in the administration,” he said.
Asked whether Vice President JD Vance could win the White House in 2028 then hand down the role to Trump, the President said “that’s one” possibility – but added that there were “others, too”.
Meanwhile, Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist over part of his first term in the White House, has vowed the Commander-in-Chief “will run and win again in 2028”.
Trump’s “methods” behind a potential third term would likely include securing a two-thirds – or “supermajority” – vote in Congress, or a “constitutional convention” called by two-thirds of the US’s 50 states to change the rules.The President would have to convince a sizeable chunk of Democratic opposition lawmakers – plus some of his own, more moderate, Republicans – to be successful.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released earlier this week revealed that a slim majority of Republicans think Trump should not seek a third term.Republican leaders in the House and Senate have shut down speculation that anyone is drafting serious legislation to amend the Constitution.Attorney General Pam Bondi has said that the next four years will be his last. “I wish we could have him for 20 years as our president” she said. “But I think he’s gonna be finished probably after this term.”
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