Trump's mixed signals on running in 2028: 'Not something I'm looking to do'

President Donald Trump in his interview to The Atlantic denied that he asked his Justice Department to look into the legality of his running again in 2028, though he never doused the possibility, and in fact recently said that he was not joking about it. The Constitution prohibits anyone from becoming the president twice but he dropped hints earlier that there are some loopholes which can be worked out.

One such option is if Trump runs for vice president in 2028 with JD Vance running for president. If they win, JD Vance can resign, making way for the vice president Trump to become the president once again.

Amid speculations over whether this is something the Trump administration is looking at, his organization came out with Trump 2028 hats, T-shirts.

What Trump said to Atlantic

The Atlantic interview says: We asked Trump about a rumor we’d heard that he had tasked his Justice Department with looking into the legality of his running again in 2028. He said he hadn’t, but then seemed to leave open the possibility. Was this the rare democratic norm he was unwilling to shatter? “That would be a big shattering, wouldn’t it?” he mused, laughing. “Well, maybe I’m just trying to shatter.” He noted, twice, that his supporters regularly shout for him to seek a third term, but concluded, “It’s not something that I’m looking to do. And I think it would be a very hard thing to do.” But not, it appears, a hard thing to profit from: The Trump Organization is now selling “Trump 2028” hats.

What Trump told to TIME

"I don’t know anything about, what, look, all I can say is this, I am being inundated with requests. I'm doing a good job. Great physical exam, and unlike every other president, I took the cognitive test and I aced it 100% and I bet you guys couldn't get 100% on that exam. It's a tough exam. You know, when you get into the mid questions, it gets to be pretty tricky and pretty tough, and the last questions are very tough, and I aced it. And I guarantee, I'd give you, I'd make a big, beautiful bet that you guys couldn't ace it. But anyway. But look, it's good to have you, it’s a very nasty interview. They don’t ask any of the good things," Trump said about becoming JD Vance's running partner in 2028.