Steve Bannon is not giving up on his dream of President Trump finding a way to circumvent the Constitution to serve another term in the White House.
Mr. Bannon has been hammering home the idea for months, insisting the president is cut from the same cloth as Presidents George Washington and Abe Lincoln and, therefore, must be given the chance to serve four more years in office, starting in 2029.
“I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028, so I’ve already endorsed President Trump,” Mr. Bannon said this week on NewsNation. “A man like this comes along once every century if we’re a little lucky. We’ve got him now, he’s on fire, and I’m a huge supporter. I wanna see him again in 2028.”
The 22nd Amendment limits the president to two terms in office. Ratified by the states in 1951, the amendment says: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”
Still, Mr. Bannon, a ferocious Trump advocate who served as chief strategist in his first administration and now hosts “War Room,” has been busy promoting the idea of a workaround.
Rep. Andy Ogles, Tennessee Republican, has jumped on the bandwagon, introducing a joint resolution to amend the Constitution to let the president serve up to three terms.
“He has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal,” Mr. Ogles said of Mr. Trump in a late January press release.
But even some of the MAGA faithful have pumped the brakes on the idea, saying it’s far-fetched, while crediting Mr. Bannon with coming up with outside-the-box ways to keep Trump ground troops energized without him atop the ballot.
President Franklin Roosevelt, who served from 1933 until he died in 1945, was the only president to serve more than two terms in office.
Washington declined to run for a third term. Lincoln was assassinated after winning reelection in 1864.
Mr. Trump will be 82 years old when voters cast their ballots in 2028.
