Trump Revives Talk of Another Term at White House Dinner

President Donald Trump said that he was running for a “fourth term” as president during the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington.

“I’m pleased to announce my intention to, and this is a somewhat of a scoop, my intention to run for a fourth term as President of the United States,” Trump said. “I will be doing that. I will be having an official, in fact, I think I have, yeah. I won, I won three times. Now I’m gonna do it again. Thank you. I’m gonna do it again. It should be easy. I’m getting very good at running for president. Now, I won three times. Did very well the second time, by the way.”

“It’s a rigged election, but we don’t have to talk about it. You know, it’s interesting, when you come back and you do a good job like we did, and you don’t care about it so much, but we do have to tighten up these elections because they really are in seriously bad shape. But on a serious note, I wanna say once again, I just wanna thank you all.”

Under the Twenty-Second Amendment, no person may be elected president more than twice. Trump is currently serving his second nonconsecutive term after returning to the White House in January 2025. The president’s remarks also echoed his long-running claims that he won the 2020 election, a claim rejected by courts and election officials.

This isn’t the first time Trump has talked about terms outside of the Constitution’s limits.

Trump was the sitting president during the 2020 election cycle, so his claims about that election are a sitting president commenting on an election that occurred while he was in office.

In March 2025, Trump told NBC News he was “not joking” about the possibility of a third term and said there were “ways you could do it.” Around the same period, he also said a lot of people were encouraging him to pursue a third term, while acknowledging it was “too early” to focus on it.

In October 2025, he said the constitutional restriction was “pretty clear,” showing he has also publicly walked back the idea at points.