Trump Would 'Love' a Third Term, Then Concedes the Constitution Won't Budge

President Donald Trump says he'd jump at a third term — and then admits the rules won't let him. In an interview published Monday by the New York Post's podcast Pod Force One, Trump said he would 'love' another run, but acknowledged that the 'language is very exacting,' an apparent nod to the 22nd Amendment, which caps presidents at two terms.

He didn't linger on the constitutional wall. Trump told host Miranda Devine it's 'fine, we have more than two years left ... we can do a lot in that time,' shifting the spotlight back to his own timeline in office.

The third-term talk came wrapped in a broader victory lap. Trump repeated his claim that the US has 'the greatest economy in history,' pointing to more car and pharmaceutical plants and 'more of everything being built now in our country.'

Same interview, bigger boasts: Trump said the US could soon control 50% of the global chip business — 'we had none, and we'll have it soon' — and claimed Washington is leading China in artificial intelligence by a wide margin. On the Iran war's fallout, he said gas prices climbed less than he expected.

He also used the podcast to play defense for Elon Musk, calling for the billionaire to be shielded from what he described as Democratic threats to arrest him, seize his factories and nationalize SpaceX. Trump backed Musk's warning that a Democratic sweep in 2028 could leave the country 'forever destroyed,' saying Musk was 'not wrong.'

And if Republicans lose the House, Trump promised to park himself in the Oval Office with a pen: 'I guess I'll become Mr. Veto,' he said, forecasting that deals would eventually follow. Meanwhile, the Kremlin's Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday there are no precise plans yet for a Putin-Trump sitdown on the sidelines of the APEC leaders' meeting.