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    Trump can only serve 4 more years. The reason why has a long and sordid history

    Trump can't run more than twice because of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment's history is rooted in money, race and politics. Here's a look at how it came about.
    by Domenico Montanaro Sep 06, 2022 7 minutes
    The exterior of the White House is seen from outside the security fencing on March 7, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

    As president, now-former President Donald Trump once teased that "president for life" sounds pretty "great."

    "Maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day," Trump told donors in 2018 about China's President Xi Jinping.

    When he was still allowed on Twitter, Trump retweeted a video manipulating a magazine cover showing him as president in 2024 through the year 90,000, or "4eva" as one of the yard signs in the video reads.

    Whether Trump was serious or not, who knows? But if he does run in 2024, as he's been heavily suggesting he will, and wins reelection, he can only serve four more years in the White House. That's because of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. It reads (bolding for emphasis is NPR's):

    ", and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person

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