‘Trump in 2028?’ Geraldo Rivera Predicts His Former Friend Will Try to Lay the Groundwork for a Third Term
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Geraldo Rivera predicted on Tuesday that his former friend, President-elect Donald Trump, could start laying the groundwork for a third term.
Presidents are currently limited to two terms in the White House, but Rivera, a correspondent for NewsNation, claimed Trump and his team will consider revoking the 22nd Amendment and do away with presidential term limits.
“Tor future reference: President Trump & Co. will soon start chattering about revoking/amending the 22d Amendment, which limits presidents to two four year terms,” Rivera wrote on X on Tuesday.
The 22nd Amendment states: “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.”
The amendment was ratified in 1951 after bipartisan calls for term limits. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only president to serve beyond two terms, eventually passing away during his fourth term in the White House in 1945.
“He just needs 38 of 50 state governments to agree to convene. (3/4ths). Trump won 30 in 2024. Trump in 2028?” continued Rivera.
Rolling back a constitutional amendment would be incredibly difficult for any president to do and a far bigger mountain to climb than Rivera’s tweet suggests. Trump would need three-quarters of state legislatures to approve, as well as two-thirds of both the Senate and House to back his plan, something that would be basically impossible considering Democrats’ inevitable opposition to such a proposal.
Trump has joked about the idea of a third term in the past, though he’s never publicly endorsed such an effort in any serious way.
Rivera and Trump were longtime friends who had a falling out over the latter’s election fraud conspiracy theories after the 2020 presidential election. Rivera did, however, recently open the door to “kissing the ring” of his “old buddy,” even though he said in the same interview that he fears Trump could “tarnish the reputation” of the country with his plan for mass deportations.
“I don’t know, I don’t know whether I will,” Rivera told Ari Melber in November. “You could have, like, a question and answer every Friday: has Geraldo congratulated Donald Trump yet? Has he gone to kiss the ring yet like Mika and Joe?”
