>Despite a constitutional amendment that bars someone from being elected president more than twice, Steve Bannon said in a recent interview that President Donald Trump will have a third term in the White House.
“>He's going to get a third term,” Bannon, who worked as a chief strategist and senior counselor in the first Trump administration, told The Economist. >“Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people just ought to get accommodated with that.”
>The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, states, “No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.” The amendment also specifies that if someone who was not elected president has filled the role for more than two years, they can only be elected to the nation’s highest office once.
>When asked about the 22nd Amendment, Bannon said, “There's many different alternatives. At the appropriate time, we'll lay out what the plan is. But there's a plan.”
>Bannon helped orchestrate Trump's first rise to the presidency in 2016 and also served time in prison for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. In 2021, Trump pardoned Bannon in a separate case, after Bannon was charged for misleading thousands of donors into thinking their contributions were going toward a wall along the southern border.
>Bannon, who hosts the “War Room” podcast, called Trump “an instrument of divine will” in the interview.
>“The only way President Trump wins in 2028 and continues to stay in office is by the will of the American people,” he said. “The will of the American people is what the Constitution embodies. So I think we're going to be in good hands there. We need to finish what we started.”
