Despite past flippant remarks and jokes to fire up his supporters at speeches, President Donald Trump is not seriously seeking to challenge the Constitution on running for a third term.

“I’ll be an eight-year president; I’ll be a two-term president,” Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker in an interview airing Sunday. “I always thought that was very important.”

Despite having suggested to Welker in his March “Meet the Press” interview that he was “not joking” about finding a way to serve another term after this one, Trump this time told her he’s aware of the constitutional limitations on a third run for president and suggested he now has no designs on changing that status quo.

Read more at Newsmax© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.