Trump Alarms Critics After He Gives Unsettling Answer About Leaving Office

The president has repeatedly suggested he would like to seek a third term, despite the U.S. Constitution explicitly barring him from doing so.

Evening Trends Reporter

President Donald Trump was speaking at a small business summit on Monday when he made a chilling prediction about when he plans to leave office.

″...And this way, when I get out of office, in, let’s say, eight or nine years from now, I’ll be able to use it myself,” Trump said about small business tax deductions.

Trump has frequently mentioned the idea of seeking a third term in office. Last year, he told NBC News that he was not “joking” about the prospect, saying “a lot of people want me to do it.”

“I’m not looking at that,” he told reporters on Air Force One in March 2025. “But I’ll tell you, I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election, was totally rigged, so it’s actually sort of a fourth term.”

While many Trump supporters have dismissed the idea as a joke, critics contend the public should take the president at his word.

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