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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican President Donald Trump said connected Sunday helium was not joking astir seeking a 3rd statesmanlike term, which is barred by the U.S. Constitution, but that it was excessively aboriginal to deliberation astir doing so.
Trump, who took bureau connected January 20 for his second, non-consecutive White House term, has made vague allusions to seeking a 3rd 1 but addressed it straight connected Sunday successful a telephone interrogation with NBC News.
"No, I'm not joking. I’m not joking," Trump said, but "it is acold excessively aboriginal to deliberation astir it."
"There are, determination are methods which you could bash it, arsenic you know," helium said. He declined to elaborate connected immoderate circumstantial methods.
U.S. presidents are constricted to 2 four-year terms, consecutive oregon not, according to the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu;Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Bill Berkrot)
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