Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office four years after suffering defeat in his re-election battle against President Joe Biden.

Trump, who became the 45th US president with his 2016 election victory over Hillary Clinton, will become the 47th US president after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 race, NBC News predict. He becomes the second president in American history to serve non-consecutive terms, joining Grover Cleveland.

The 78-year-old president-elect will begin his second presidential term in January, but is there a possibility he could win a third term?

This is why the US Constitution says no.

Can Donald Trump run for president in 2028?

The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits a president from serving more than two terms.

Because Trump will serve his second term in office over the next four years, he will not be allowed to hold the position after his term ends.

Former President Donald Trump returns to the White House for a second term.

What is the 22nd Amendment?

The 22nd Amendment prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again. It was passed by Congress on March 21, 1947 and ratified on February 27, 1951.

Here is the 22nd Amendment in full, as written in the U.S. Constitution:

Section 1.

No person may be elected President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President or acted as President for more than two years of any term for which another person has been elected President shall be elected. to the president’s office more than once. But this article shall not apply to persons holding the office of President when this article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person from holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article shall enter into force effect by holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of that term of office.

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 by Congress to the States.

Could Donald Trump have run for president in 2028 if he had lost the 2024 election?

If Harris had won the 2024 election, Trump would have been able to run again in 2028 because he would have served only one term as president before that election.

Has a president ever served more than two terms?

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only American president to serve more than two terms.

FDR won elections in 1932 and 1936 before breaking precedent and running again in 1940. He went on to win a third term in 1940 and later earned a fourth term by winning the 1944 elections.

The 32nd president held office from March 4, 1933 until his death on April 12, 1945.

Congress passed the 22nd Amendment two years after Roosevelt’s death, and it went into effect for the 1952 election, which Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won over Democrat Adlai Stevenson.