President Trump can’t stop talking about the prospect of a third term.

Trump over the weekend spoke at length in an interview with NBC News about the idea of pursuing a third term in office, saying “there are methods which you could do it.”

While the idea was broached in an interview, it is at least the fifth time Trump has publicly spoken about the possibility of serving a third term since he took office for his second.

Trump’s latest comments are the farthest he has gone to date in addressing the prospect of a third term, even as he sought to downplay the conversation as being too early into his second term. The 22nd Amendment prohibits an individual from being elected to more than two terms as president.

The remarks were met with a relative shrug from Republicans, who dismissed the seriousness of the president’s comments, and by some Democrats, who view them as a distraction from kitchen-table issues and concerning new polling for Trump.

“The president was responding to a question. He wasn’t advocating for that. We all know that you’d have to change the Constitution, and that would be highly unlikely,” Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) said on CNBC.

Jim Kessler, a co-founder of the centrist think tank Third Way, argued Democrats need to remain focused on the economy at a time when Trump’s tariff plans have rattled public confidence in his handling of the issue.

“I refuse to be sucked into the Trump third term distraction,” Kessler said. “Democrats must focus on what matters to ordinary voters and the economy and imminent Trump slump is at the top of that list.

“In four years, Trump will be a feeble, old man who will have to persuade a tired public that the path he took was best for America,” Kessler added. “No matter what he decides and what the courts allow, that’ll be a tough........

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