Steve Bannon promises to 'roll out' plan for Trump’s third term

"War Room" host Steve Bannon at the 2025 Student Action Summit at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. on July 12, 2025 (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

Under the U.S. Constitution's 22nd Amendment — which was submitted to the states for ratification in 1947 and fully ratified in 1951 — presidents are limited to two consecutive or nonconsecutive terms. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to four terms, but all of the presidents who came after him — from Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to Republicans Dwight E. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush — were limited two terms.

But some allies of President Donald Trump are calling for him to run for a third term in 2028 despite what the 22nd Amendment says, including Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tennessee), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and "War Room" host and former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.

During Bannon's Saturday, October 11 appearance on the NewsNation show "Batya!," host Batya Ungar-Sargon asked him if the 22nd Amendment is a "barrier" to Trump running for a third term in 2028.

Bannon responded, "I think that there are many different alternatives that, at the appropriate time after the midterms in '26, we will roll out. But I think there are many different alternatives to make sure that President Trump is on the ballot, and if he’s on the ballot, he'll win."

The New Republic's Edith Olmsted reports, "It's not clear that Trump, who hocks 'Trump 2028' hats, sees himself as constrained by the 22nd Amendment either — not to mention the U.S. Constitution. In March, he told NBC's Kristen Welker that he was 'not joking' about considering a third term, claiming that there were 'methods' by which he could remain in the White House. Still, the 22nd Amendment is clear as ever: '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.'"

Olmsted continues, "It’s just a matter of whether the Supreme Court will enforce it — and based on recent remarks from Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas, it's not clear that it will. It seems the quiet part about reelecting a man who once refused to concede the results of a presidential election has become quite deafening now. And ironically, Republicans have recently moved to criminalize 'No Kings' protests across the country."

Read Edith Olmsted's full article for The New Republic at this link.

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