Hostin claimed that Sotomayor\u2019s answer on whether Trump could secure a third White House term disturbed her. Though the justice told the hosts that the 22nd Amendment prevented Trump from seeking a third term, Sotomayor noted that it had never been tested \u2014 a statement that struck Hostin as ominous.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It scared me,” the co-host declared during the latest episode of “The View: Behind The Table<\/a>” podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n LAWMAKER UNVEILS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO GIVE TRUMP THIRD TERM<\/a><\/p>\n “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin said during a podcast Tuesday that Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s comments about President Donald Trump seeking a third term “scared” her. (Gary Gershoff\/Getty; Pablo Cuadra\/Getty)<\/p>\n “And she said the Constitution should be the highest law of the land. Should be. She sort of clarified it, and that scared me,” Hostin added, after co-host Joy Behar said Trump doesn\u2019t follow the rules.<\/p>\n Trump has teased the idea of seeking a third term<\/a>, telling NBC News in March 2025 that he\u2019s “not joking” about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n “A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump told the outlet in a phone interview on Sunday. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it\u2019s very early in the administration.”<\/p>\n TRUMP CHALLENGES AOC AND JASMINE CROCKETT TO INTELLIGENCE TEST AFTER CALLING THEM ‘VERY LOW IQ’<\/a><\/p>\n President Donald Trump has teased the idea of seeking a third White House term in recent months. (Jacob Safar\/@yaakovsafar)<\/p>\n During Tuesday\u2019s episode of the ABC daytime talk show, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin<\/a> asked Sotomayor whether Trump seeking a third term is possible.<\/p>\n “There has been talk Donald Trump might seek a third term. It\u2019s my personal belief that if he did, the Republican Party would likely support him. I want to ask you: obviously, the 22nd Amendment prohibits somebody from seeking a third term. Do you believe the 22nd Amendment is settled law?”<\/p>\n “The Constitution is settled law,” Sotomayor replied. “No one has tried to challenge that. Until somebody tries, you don\u2019t know. So, it\u2019s not settled because we don\u2019t have a court case about that issue. But it is in the Constitution, and one should understand that there\u2019s nothing that is the greater law in the United States than the Constitution of the United States.”<\/p>\n![\"Sunny](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1200\/675\/hostin-view-justice.jpg?ve=1&tl=1\")
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