Trump makes alarming hint at third term after brutal joke about Biden 'falling'
Donald Trump appeared to make an alarming hint at a third presidential term after taking a brutal jibe about
Joe Biden
'falling' during a speech Wednesday evening.
As he spoke to
attendees of the White House Summer Soiree
from the Truman Balcony, he appeared to reference Biden tripping on stage during his presidential campaign, telling the crowd on the South Lawn: "Don't fall, please, nobody. We had an administration that fell a lot. We don't want to have that."
Biden
fell several times
following his election in 2020, including during an Air Force Academy graduation ceremony in 2023.
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Donald Trump spoke for about 15 minutes on the south lawn Wednesday evening at his first Summer Soiree event.
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When Biden announced his diagnosis of an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer on May 18, Trump extended his "warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family" on social media. Seven days later, on Memorial Day, he called the former president "incompetent" and implied that Biden had intentionally hidden his cancer diagnosis while in office.
After his jab at Biden on Wednesday, Trump described the Summer Soiree event as the first of a continuing series, hinting that the White House speeches could go on for "eight more years."
'The previous administration wouldn't have thought of doing it. But we're going to do it for four more years, I don't know, maybe eight more years," Trump said to cheers from the attending crowd.
Trump has offered conflicting information about whether he will seek a third presidential term, which is prohibited by the 22nd Amendment.
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The 22nd Amendment of the United States Constitution limits the number of times a person can be elected president to two terms, prohibiting anyone who has been elected twice to be elected again.
Since reentering the Oval Office this year, Trump has made conflicting claims about whether or not he will seek legal justification to run for a third term. Trump told NBC's Meet the Press in May that he would remain a "two-term president." However, just two weeks later, he told US troops stationed in Qatar that he would "have to think" about running again in 2028.
The Summer Soiree event was billed as a way for Trump to thank his political appointees for their service.
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