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One from the president Donald Trump’s Key congressional allies introduced a resolution Thursday evening to allow the commander-in-chief a third term.
Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is pushing a new amendment to the Constitution that would give a president three terms in office, but no more than two consecutive four-year terms.
The amendment would read: “No person shall be elected to the Office of the President more than three times, nor shall he be elected to any additional term after having been elected to two consecutive terms, and no person who has held the office of President or has acted as to president, for more than two years of a term to which another person was elected president shall be elected to the Office of the President more than twice.”
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Representative Andy Ogles has introduced a bill that would allow President Trump to serve a third term (Getty Images)
The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, prevents a person from serving more than two terms as president.
It was passed by Congress in 1947 in response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt winning four terms in the White House. Roosevelt died a year after he was elected to his fourth term in the 1944 presidential election.
But in a statement released to media on Thursday, Ogles said Trump “has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing the decline of our nation and restoring greatness to America, and which must have the necessary time to achieve this goal.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to four terms. (NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
“To that end, I am proposing an amendment to the Constitution to revise the limitations imposed by the 22nd Amendment on presidential terms,” Ogles said. “This amendment would allow President Trump to serve three terms, ensuring we can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”
Trump made comments about serving a third term in House Republicans During a closed-door speech late last year, however, multiple sources who attended the event told Fox News Digital that the then-president-elect was joking.
Earlier this month, Ogles released a bill to Authorize Trump to participate in talks to buy Greenland after he expressed interest in doing so.
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The “Make Greenland Great Again Act” would have authorized Trump to enter into negotiations with Denmark over the purchase of Greenland, a territory located in North America but with long-standing cultural and geopolitical ties to Europe.
“Joe Biden took a nosedive at our reputation over the last four years, and even now, President Trump is telling the world that America’s early years are back. The economic and security interests Americans will no longer take a back seat and House Republicans are ready to help President Trump deliver for the American people,” Ogles told Fox News Digital at the time.
