U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham speaks after meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon August 26, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
In 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt won a fourth term, but Vice President Harry Truman was sworn in as president after FDR's death on April 12, 1945 — and because of the U.S. Constitution's 22nd Amendment (which went into effect in the early 1950s), no American president after FDR served more than two terms. President Donald Trump — like Presidents Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Dwight E. Eisenhower before him — is term-limited under the Constitution. But the 22nd Amendment isn't preventing Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) from calling for Trump to win a third term in 2028.
During a Tuesday night, September 23 appearance on Fox News, Graham told host Sean Hannity, "Trump 2028. I hope this never ends…. I hope he runs again."
This wasn't the first time Graham proposed an unconstitutional third term for Trump. During an August 13 event at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Graham posed for a photo holding up a red hat that read "Trump 2028."
During his conversation with Hannity, Graham had fawning praise for Trump's September 22 speech before the United Nations General Assembly
Graham told the long-time Fox News host, "He told the UN: 'You're more the problem than the solution'…. These seven wars that he ended, if it weren't for Donald Trump, they'd all be going on. Rwanda and Congo has been going on for 37 years. It really does matter who's in the White House. This guy is a cross between P.T. Barnum and Ronald Reagan. He's got, and he's in, everybody's head. God bless you, President Trump, for standing up in the UN and telling the world the way it is. We don't have to live this way."
The South Carolina senator's comments are drawing a lot of criticism on X, formerly Twitter.
The conservative group Republicans Against Trump reminded Graham, "Trump legally cannot run for a third term."
Democrat Lucas Sanders tweeted, "Does he know that Trump can’t run a third term?"