Blitz Bureau
WASHINGTON: Steve Bannon, an architect of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and one of his top aides, has claimed that the Republican would run in the US presidential election 2028 again.
In an interview on NewsNation, Steve Bannon said he is working with others to make way for Donald Trump to run for President again despite the limits the US Constitution poses, reported livemint.com.
“We’re working on it. I think we’ll have a couple of alternatives. We will see what the definition of term limit is,” he said, adding, “I’m a firm believer that President Donald Trump will run and win again in 2028. We’ve had greater long shots than Trump 2028.” “A man like this [Donald Trump] comes along once every century, if we’re lucky. We’ve got him now,” Steve Bannon said.
The Twenty-Second Amendment, passed in 1951, is a rule in the US Constitution that limits a President to serving only two terms in office. This means no person can be elected President more than twice. It was introduced to prevent any one leader from holding power for too long.
It says, “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.”
While it is unconstitutional in the United States to run for the third time, Donald Trump has time and again suggested that he would run for another term, triggering speculation that an amendment in the Constitution is underway.
Bannon defended Elon Musk’s role in implementing the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. “He backed our play,” Bannon said, mentioning Musk contributed financially to their voter outreach and supported the merger of “Bobby Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again with MAGA.”
Bannon described Musk’s DOGE initiative as deploying “shock troops” in a “trauma-inducing effort into the administrative state” that, while “not pretty,” has been “pretty effective.”
