The claim comes after months of President Trump toying with the idea, insisting that he is “not joking” about defying a constitutionally-mandated term limit.
The constitution is crystal-clear:
Twenty-Second Amendment
Section 1
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. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
As far as I can see, he could just run as V.P. to some candidate whose entire platform is “I will resign straight after being sworn in.” A disturbing number of people would vote for them just to “own the libs”.
No, you have to be eligible to be president to be VP. It’s just as illegal as running as president.
Ah, OK, that’s good to know. So, speaker of the house is the most likely under current arrangements. I wonder if thaat’s the plan, or if they’re going to try to change the rules, or if they’re just going to ignore the rules completely.