Donald Trump raised, this Wednesday, November 13, the possibility of running for the White House, which is prohibited by the American Constitution, during a speech to Republicans in Washington.
“I think I won’t run again, unless you say ‘he’s good, we have to consider something else,'” the president-elect said to a laughing crowd. Donald Trump had ruled out during his campaign the possibility of running again in 2028 in the event of defeat on November 5.
According to Section 1 of the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in March 1947, “no person shall be elected to the President more than twice.”
Trump, received by Biden, evokes a “fluid” transition
The president-elect, who declared this Wednesday that the transition with Joe Biden would be “the smoothest ever” at the start of a meeting at the White House with the outgoing president, shook the hand of his sworn enemy in the Office oval. “Politics is hard, and often it’s not a very pleasant world. But it’s a pleasant world today and I’m grateful,” said the 45th and soon to be 47th American president.
The tenant of the White House pledged last week, after Donald Trump’s resounding victory in the presidential election, to ensure a “peaceful and orderly” transfer of power with the man he has repeatedly described as dangerous. for American democracy.
The visit is humiliating for the octogenarian Democrat, who knows that a good part of his record could be reduced to nothing by the team that his rival is in the process of shaping, with appointments each more radical than the last. Among the latest announced by the president-elect: the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, at the head of a new “Government Effectiveness Commission”, jointly with Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy. The latter has already promised on