Trump says hes not joking about running for 3rd term. Why its unlikely – National [Video]

President Donald Trump has just started his second term, his last one permitted under the U.S. Constitution. But he’s already started talking about serving a third one.

“There are methods which you can do it,” Trump insisted to NBC News in a telephone interview on Sunday.

That follows months of Trump making quips about a third term, despite the clear constitutional prohibition on it. “Am I allowed to run again?” Trump joked during a House Republican retreat in Florida in January. Just a week after he won election last fall, Trump suggested in a meeting with House Republicans that he might want to stick around after his second term was over.

Trump’s musings often spark alarm among his critics even when they’re legally impossible, given that he unsuccessfully tried to overturn his 2020 election loss and has since pardoned supporters who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

But Trump, who will be 82 when …