President Trump confirmed that he will not run for a third term amid ongoing rumors that the Constitution could be amended to allow for such a shift.
“If you read it, it’s pretty clear! I’m not allowed to run,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, referring to the U.S. Constitution. “It’s too bad!”
“But we have a lot of great people,” he stated.
Earlier this week, the president shut down rumors that he could run as a vice presidential candidate in 2028, instead telling reporters that the Republican Party has “great” candidates.
President Trump said, “I wouldn’t do that. I think it’s too cute. Yeah, I would rule that out because it’s too cute. I think the people wouldn’t like that. It’s too cute. It’s not – it wouldn’t be right.”
“I don’t have to get into that, but we have one of them standing right here,” Trump added, referring to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “We have JD, obviously. The Vice President is great. Marco is great, I think. I’m not sure if anybody would run against those.”
Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance told the New York Post’s “Pod Force One with Miranda Devine” that discussions of a possible Vance-Rubio ticket “feels so premature because we’re still so early.”
“And what I always say to people is, if we take care of business, the politics will take care of itself,” he stated. “And we’re nine months into this thing. We’ve done a lot of good.”
“Again, we’ve chipped away at that problem, but there’s a lot more work to do there,” Vance noted, going on to explain that his “attitude is, the American people elected me to be vice president. I’m going to work as hard as I can to make the president successful over the next three years and three months.”
