{"id":18081,"date":"2025-10-27T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18081\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:08:13","slug":"let-aoc-go-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18081\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Let AOC go against Trump\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOKYO \u2014 President Trump said Monday that he won\u2019t run as Vice President JD Vance\u2019s running mate to circumvent the Constitution\u2019s two-term limit on the presidency<\/a>, but said he is still interested in running again \u2014 musing about a potential 2028 face-off against New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n

Trump, 79, made the remarks when a reporter asked about his former chief strategist Steve Bannon\u2019s claim that a secret plan might negate the 22nd Amendment\u2019s term limit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to do it. I have my best numbers ever, it\u2019s very terrible, I have my best numbers,\u201d Trump said aboard Air Force One en route to Tokyo for meetings with Emperor Naruhito and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.<\/p>\n

President Trump said Monday he would love to serve a third term. AP<\/p>\n

Trump, whose approval rating is 45.1%, according to<\/a> the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls, has repeatedly flirted with a possible final candidacy in what has been widely interpreted as a way to avoid an early lame-duck status and also to troll Democrats \u2014 even handing out \u201cTrump 2028\u201d campaign hats<\/a> to White House guests.<\/p>\n

Bannon claimed in an interview<\/a> with the Economist that \u201che\u2019s going to get a third term\u2026 at the appropriate time, we\u2019ll lay out what the plan is. But there\u2019s a plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump definitively ruled out the most widely discussed option of running as Vance\u2019s running mate and then having Vance resign to circumvent the 22nd Amendment\u2019s rule that a person can only be \u201celected\u201d president twice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the people wouldn\u2019t like that. It\u2019s too cute. It wouldn\u2019t be right,\u201d he told reporters on Air Force One.<\/p>\n

Trump floated a potential 2028 matchup between himself and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Getty Images<\/p>\n

Trump said that he could also see Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio forming the Republican ticket in the next election, saying the pair would be \u201cunstoppable.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he continued to leave the door open for himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I can tell you is that we have a great group of people, which they don\u2019t. They have [Texas Rep.] Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. They have AOC who is low IQ. You give her an IQ test, have her pass the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed, I took very hard,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Trump spoke about the possibility when asked about Steve Bannon\u2019s claim that there\u2019s a secret plan for a third term. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Trump said that Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio alternatively would be an \u201cunstoppable\u201d GOP ticket. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cLet AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump told CNBC in August he would \u201cprobably not\u201d seek a third term, but told NBC in March he was \u201cnot joking\u201d<\/a> about running again.<\/p>\n

During the Air Force One gaggle, Trump also revealed that he had an MRI scan during his annual physical<\/a> this month. He declined to say why, but said \u201cit was perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump will be 82 at the end of his current term. He would be 86 at the end of a third term in 2033.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO \u2014 President Trump said Monday that he won\u2019t run as Vice President JD Vance\u2019s running mate to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":["post-18081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}