Stephen A. Smith Presses Bill O’Reilly On Trump Floating Third Term: I Thought Your Party ‘Preached About the Constitution!’

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Stephen A. Smith and Bill O’Reilly went at it Sunday over President Donald Trump openly musing about running for a third term.

In a recent interview with NBC News’s Kristen Welker, Trump explained that he was completely serious about running again. Though it’s currently prohibited due to the 22nd Amendment limiting U.S. presidents to two terms, Trump claimed, “there are methods which you could do it.”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, responses to those comments ran along party lines — with Democrats sounding the alarm on Trump floating the idea of violating the Constitution, and Republicans praising him for his “honest and candid” response to a question.

On Sunday, O’Reilly, Smith, and Chris Cuomo took the stage for a live discussion in Westbury, New York. Titled “Three Americans,” the event saw the trio tackling a number of issues concerning the country.

Smith used the opportunity to press O’Reilly for not taking Trump’s words seriously enough.

“You and I got into it when we were on Cuomo’s show a couple of weeks ago,” Smith said. “Steve Bannon comes on national television with a straight face first — and then smirk thereafter — talking about violating the Constitution of the United States, the 22nd Amendment. Two terms! He said three! Chris Cuomo says, ‘Yo, you understand what the 22nd Amendment says, right?’ He said, ‘Yeah, no, we’re working on it.’ Everybody just glosses over it!

“Wait a minute, you’re a Republican voter out there. I thought your party was the party that preached about the Constitution! I thought your party was the party that said, ‘We’re not violating, we’re not circumventing, we’re not slithering our way through to get what we want.’ JD Vance is the vice president. Marco Rubio is the secretary of state. You’ve got candidates within his cabinet that are more than qualified to run for reelection. That’s not enough! ‘He’s a once-in-a-generation kind of talent. We gotta hold on to it.’ So we’re gonna circumvent every principle we stood on?”

O’Reilly then confidently stated that Trump will not run for a third term and claimed that the president only said those things to get a rise out of his critics.

“All he wants to do is get people like you upset,” O’Reilly responded. “That’s what he wants and he succeeds.”

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