Steve Bannon Says He's Working On 'Five Or Six Different Alternatives' To Allow Trump To Run For a Third Term

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon said on Tuesday that he is working on "five or six different alternatives" to allow President Donald Trump to run for a third term in office despite the Constitution clearly banning the possibility.

"Quite frankly, I think four or five are going to work. I continue to say, as I told Bill Maher, on the afternoon of January 20th, 2029, Donald Trump is going to be president for his third term," Bannon added.

It is not the first time Bannon makes such a claim. In late March he said he is a "I'm a believer that President Trump will run and win again." "A man like this comes along once every century, if we're lucky. We've got him now. He's on fire," he added in an interview with Chris Cuomo.

Cuomo pointed out the two-term limit and asked Bannon: "How do you think he gets another term?" "We're working on it. I think we'll have, I think we'll have a couple of alternatives," he said. "Let's say that. We'll see, we'll see, we'll see what the definition of term limit is."

Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that a Trump attorney began studying in 2023 potential ways in which he could serve a third term if elected. The outlet detailed that Boris Epshteyn said he had been studying the law and believed he could find a way to allow Trump to run again in 2028.

Speaking to the outlet, an associate of Epshteyn said he is now looking back to those comments with alarm as Trump openly floats the possibility, even such a possibility is clearly banned by the Constitution. Epshteyn is now Trump's outside counsel.

White House communications director Steven Cheung said "it's far too early to think about" a third term, but the president has repeatedly claimed that he is seriously considering the possibility. In an interview with NBC News this weekend he discussed "methods" to do so.

"A lot of people want me to do it," Trump told NBC News this month. "But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it's very early in the administration," Trump said.

It is highly unlikely that Trump would be allowed to seek a third term. The 22nd Amendment, added to the Constitution in 1951 after President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times in a row, saying "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice." changing that amendment would require a two-thirds vote of Congress and three-fourths vote of the states.