President Donald Trump said he wasn’t “100% sure” that he cannot run for a third term as president.
difficult to amend the Constitution, which hasn’t been changed since the 27th Amendment was ratified in 1992. Formally proposing an amendment requires either a two-thirds vote in the House of Representatives and Senate — Republicans do not hold enough seats to pass it — or via a constitutional convention, which hasn’t been held since the 18th century. Then, to ratify a new amendment, three-fourths of state legislatures (so 38 states) would need to approve it.
Here’s what else Trump spoke about at the conference dinner:
On TikTok: At the conference dinner, Trump reiterated his fondness for the app and his preference that it be sold by its Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance. “China won’t be involved,” he said while insisting “a lot of people” are seeking to purchase the platform.
On Medicare and Social Security: The president said he will not sign a bill that includes “even a single penny” of cuts to Medicare or Social Security benefits, reiterating a commitment he made during his campaign.
On Colombia: In his first comments on the mass deportation effort launched under his administration, Trump took a victory lap on immigration, saying Colombia, “agreed with us almost immediately after I got involved,” following a dispute over deportation flights over the weekend that threatened to spiral into a damaging trade war between the two nations.
On DeepSeek: After the Chinese artificial intelligence company unveiled a ChatGPT-like AI model operating at a fraction of the cost of comparable US models, Trump said the announcement “should be a wake-up call” for US tech companies.
