{"id":14934,"date":"2025-10-28T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/no-path-for-a-third-trump-term-mike-johnson-says\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:01:59","slug":"no-path-for-a-third-trump-term-mike-johnson-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/no-path-for-a-third-trump-term-mike-johnson-says\/","title":{"rendered":"No &#8216;path&#8217; for a third Trump term, Mike Johnson says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he\u2019s spoken with President Donald Trump about the possibility he might seek a third term but said he doesn\u2019t \u201csee the path\u201d for such a move.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Trump floating a third term, which is barred under the Constitution, Johnson replied, \u201cWell, there\u2019s the 22nd Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s been a great run, but I think the president knows, and he and I&#8217;ve talked about, the constrictions of the Constitution,\u201d Johnson told reporters at a Tuesday news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Talk of a third Trump term was rekindled after former Trump strategist Steve Bannon told The Economist that there was a plan in place to keep Trump in office past 2029. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the appropriate time, we&#8217;ll lay out what the plan is,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation erupted that Trump could somehow run for vice president and claim the presidency after the election \u2014 something the president addressed and rejected Monday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s too cute. It wouldn&#8217;t be right,&#8221; he said, while refusing to completely rule out the notion he might serve a third term: &#8220;I haven&#8217;t really thought about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he\u2019s spoken with President Donald Trump about the possibility he might seek a third term but said he doesn\u2019t \u201csee the path\u201d for such a move. Asked about Trump floating a third term, which is barred under the Constitution, Johnson replied, \u201cWell, there\u2019s the 22nd Amendment.\u201d \u201cIt&#8217;s been a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}