Trump jokes about running a third time, sending Democrats into a meltdown

President-elect Donald Trump joked about running for a third term Wednesday morning as he addressed the House GOP conference.

Trump made a triumphant return to Washington, DC, a week and a day after his election victory, to meet with President Joe Biden at the White House.

Before his meet-and-greet with the Democratic president, Trump addressed members of his own party on Capitol Hill.

“I guess I won’t compete again unless you say he’s so good we have to think of something else,” the 78-year-old joked.

Trump has long joked about serving as president indefinitely — with Democrats pointing to those jokes as evidence of the ex-president’s authoritarian tendencies.

But one Democrat immediately responded to Trump’s joke by introducing a resolution to clarify the terms of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution — which states that a president cannot serve three terms.

Resolution from Representative Dan Goldman, obtained by The New York Timestries to confirm that it would apply to Trump.

It is very unlikely that the resolution will pass the House, as Republicans are still in the majority.

But it is a sign that Democrats will use everything in their power to keep Trump in check, even if they are in the minority.

In the past, Trump has praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for abolishing term limits for himself.

‘He is now president for life. Chairman for life. No, he’s great,” Trump said in 2018. “And look, he could do that. I love it. Maybe we should try that sometime.’

Of course, Trump was thwarted in 2020 by Biden, who managed to pull the so-called “blue wall” states away from the Republicans – Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania – and also win the traditionally red states of Arizona and Georgia.

Now, four years later, Trump returns to Washington after peeling every swing state away from Biden’s successor on the Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump was introduced at the conference meeting by House Speaker Mike Johnson, who called him the “47th President of the United States.”

The president-elect took to the stage with his traditional walk-on song, God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood.

“Isn’t it nice to win?” Trump asked his fellow Republicans.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (left) accompanies President-elect Donald Trump (right) to a meeting with the House GOP conference on Wednesday

“We won all seven swing states by a wide margin,” Trump said, adding that he also nearly won New Jersey. ‘They are very worried. Because they say, if next time we go up even a fraction of what we went up, you’re going to win New York, you’re going to win New Jersey. You’re going to win places that you couldn’t win. California too.”

New Jersey went 51.8 percent for Harris and 46.3 percent for Trump, with 94 percent of the votes reported in the state. Harris won New Jersey’s 14 Electoral College votes.

The 22nd Amendment prohibits a person who has been elected president twice from serving additional terms.

The amendment was ratified in 1951 after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times.

It would take more than congressional approval to amend the Constitution, as the ratification process is outlined in Article V.

To approve a change, three-quarters of state legislatures or three-quarters of states that ratify treaties would have to say yes — an extremely steep climb in a country that is almost evenly divided politically between Democrats and Republicans.