The Trump Organization’s official store has begun selling “Trump 2028” hats, a sign the president may not be joking about seeking a third term in the White House.
President Trump has stirred the pot over the past few months about whether he would pursue a third term in office, fluctuating from jokes to floating possible match-ups in the 2028 election cycle.
And some Republicans are working to see a third term go from proposal to reality.
The Trump Organization is selling the hats, which are bright red with big, block white letters, for $50. While the president ceded daily operations of his family’s business to his eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, he still owns the organization.
The Washington Times reached out for comment from the White House and Trump Organization.
The Constitution forbids someone from serving more than two terms in the White House.
Currently, the 22nd Amendment reads, in part, that “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.”
The only president to serve more than two terms was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was elected to four stints in the White House. His last term was cut short when he died shortly after his fourth inauguration in 1945. That spurred the ratification of the 22nd Amendment.
Still, that hasn’t stopped Mr. Trump and some of his most devoted followers, inside the walls of Congress and beyond, from mulling a constitutional change.
Before taking office, the president joked with Republicans in a closed-door meeting, saying, “I suspect I won’t be running again, unless you say, ‘He’s so good we’ve got to figure something else out.’”
Since then, he has said that he would “love” a hypothetical rematch against former President Barack Obama.
One of Mr. Trump’s most loyal allies, Steve Bannon, contends that the president will run and win in 2028.
In Congress, Rep. Andy Ogles, Tennessee Republican, proposed a resolution that would change the 22nd Amendment. His offering is exclusively geared toward letting Mr. Trump serve a third term, but wouldn’t allow Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Mr. Obama, three of the four living former presidents, to mount another bid for office.
That’s because his resolution comes with the caveat that a person can run for a third term only if he or she hasn’t held two consecutive terms in office.
In order to make a change to the Constitution, a resolution must receive a two-thirds majority vote in both chambers of Congress, then be ratified by three-fourths of the states.
