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The Solution to the Third-Term Threat

Republican leaders need to speak up now, loudly and clearly, against any schemes to put Donald Trump back into the White House yet again.

First published in The Atlantic on November 3, 2025.

by Brian C. Kalt, The Atlantic

November 6, 2025 | reading time: 7 Min.

American Presidents are plainly meant to be term-limited. The Twenty-Second Amendment, ratified in 1951, spells it out: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”