A proposed constitutional amendment “would allow anyone to run for a 3rd term. Including — Barack Obama.”

The U.S. Constitution limits how long someone can serve as president. 

According to the 22nd Amendment, “No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice, 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 the president more than once.”  

That precludes President Donald Trump from re-election in 2028.

But on Jan. 23, U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., introduced a House joint resolution “to allow Trump to serve a third term,” his press release said.

Some social media users flagged what they perceived as a snag for the Trump faithful.

“So MAGA now wants to allow presidents to have a 3rd term?” a Jan. 23 Threads post said. “One small problem with that. It would allow ANYONE to run for a 3rd term. Including — Barack Obama.”

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But the resolution doesn’t propose changing the 22nd Amendment so that former President Barack Obama — or any other president who served two consecutive terms — could run. 

Ogles wants the amended amendment to say: “No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, and no person who has held the office of the 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 the president more than twice.”

That means former President Grover Cleveland, who died in 1908 and served two nonconsecutive presidential terms, would have been the only other former U.S. president eligible to run for reelection after serving two terms under the proposed amendment. 

For the Constitution to be amended, Ogles’ bill would need to be approved by a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate, and then ratified by three-fourths of the states.

We rate claims this amendment would let Obama from for a third term False.