
Goldman: GOP proposal allowing Trump third term not a ‘joke’

WASHINGTON, D.C. — AFTER REPUBLICAN REP. ANDY OGLES (TN-05) on Thursday proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow Donald Trump to serve a third term as president, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-Western Brooklyn, lower Manhattan) warned that the out-of-left-field proposal followed a dangerous pattern. Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of staying in office beyond his legitimate second term.
“By now, Donald Trump’s pattern is predictable: ‘joke’ about something unconstitutional or authoritarian; normalize the ‘joke’; allow sycophantic Republicans to adopt the ‘joke’ as a serious idea until it becomes MAGA orthodoxy,” Goldman said in a statement Thursday, adding, “Rep. Ogles has followed the playbook perfectly.”
In November 2023, Goldman introduced a resolution which re-affirmed the 22nd Amendment, which explicitly prohibits presidents who have served two full terms from being elected to the presidency again. In November 2024, the resolution was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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