Trump reveals his real reason for looking at serving a third term in speech to troops in Qatar
President Donald Trump again teased running for a third term during a speech to U.S. servicemembers at the country's largest base in the Middle East.
Trump appeared at the Al Udeid Air Base located outside of Doha in Qatar on Thursday, as part of this three-country tour of the region.
Before an audience of more than 1,000, Trump again pushed that he had won the 2020 election.
'We won three elections, OK? And some people want us to do a fourth. I don't know. I'll have to think about it,' the president said.
He then revealed the real reason he kept bringing it up.
'The hottest hat is, it says "Trump 2028." We're driving the left crazy when you see that,' Trump said.
The Constitution says that a president can't serve more than two terms - an amendment that was added after Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected four times.
Democratic critics have used Trump's third term chatter to say that he's trying to defy the Constitution.
While the president is touring three countries in the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates - he's continued to talk domestic politics like he was at home.
Earlier Thursday he made a jab at former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who ran for the White House in the Democratic primary in 2020 - and could possibly launch another bid.
'Can you believe it? He's running the biggest air system in the world, and he takes a bicycle to work, what a - and they say he's going to run for president,' Trump scoffed at a breakfast in Doha with business leaders. 'I don't see it. Who knows but I don't see it.'
If elected, Buttigieg, 43, would be the first openly gay U.S. president.
The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana visited Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Wednesday sparking speculation he'll run for the White House in 2028.
During the visit, Buttigieg spanked Trump and his MAGA-filled administration.
'There is a parade of horribles emanating from this White House,' the ex-Transporation secretary said. 'The American people bow to no king.'
Buttigieg also recalled the last time he spent time in the Hawkeye State, 'I was sort of winning the Iowa caucus.'
During the 2020 caucus the app the Democrats were using to tabulate the results crashed and the winner wasn't known immediately.
It was eventually determined that Buttigieg had won the caucus as its traditionally held, but progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders also called it a win due to earning the most pure votes.
During President Joe Biden's leadership of the party, the Democratic primaries were reordered with Iowa losing its first-place caucus and South Carolina going first.
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