‘I’D LOVE IT’: Trump Issues Humorous Challenge to Obama
During a press briefing in the Oval Office on Monday, President Donald Trump was questioned about the possibility of running against former President Barack Obama if there were a legal way for either of them to seek a third term.
Fox News journalist Peter Doocy raised the subject after Trump himself recently mentioned that some people have speculated about a potential constitutional loophole that might allow him to run again. This would challenge the 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, which restricts presidents to two terms in office.
“I’d love that. I’d love that. I would like that. Boy, that would be a good one,” Trump responded when asked about a hypothetical rematch with Obama.
“People are asking me to run in a whole story about running third term. I don’t know, I have never looked into it. They do say there is a way to do it. I don’t know about that, and I have not looked into it. I want to do a fantastic job,” he stated.
“Four years, time is flying, but still four years, and we are getting a lot of credit for doing a great job in first almost 100 days. We have big things we will announce in the next few days. And I think it will be something that will bring a lot of wealth back to the country, tremendous wealth back to the country, actually,” Trump added.
Meanwhile, a newly released book reveals that former First Lady Michelle Obama had no intention of entering politics and was considered “problematic” by some during the 2024 presidential race.
During an appearance on Fox News’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” author Jonathan Allen discussed the book he co-wrote with Amie Parnes, titled “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.”
Allen explains that Barack and Michelle Obama had planned to call Vice President Kamala Harris to formally endorse her campaign. However, the endorsement video they later recorded was criticized online as “cringe” and “staged.”
At that time, Biden’s former campaign, which Harris took over, was struggling financially to the extent that there were concerns about meeting payroll by August 2024. It was believed that the Obamas’ endorsement could serve a dual purpose—both saving money and encouraging grassroots donations—by releasing a shareable video instead of a tweet or large-scale event.
However, according to the book, Obama’s former campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, who was leading Biden’s campaign, did not communicate this strategy clearly.
“Harris aides were taken aback when they heard what they believed was a demand from the Obamas,” Allen and Parnes wrote. “The former first couple was purportedly insisting on a campy behind-the-scenes video of Harris taking their call.”
“She would be on camera, but not the Obamas, and Harris would have to clear her calendar to align with theirs,” they explained.
“It was like, ‘Here’s the window of time that Michelle and Barack have for you to take this call, and it can’t be on video because Michelle’s not going to be camera-ready,’” one aide recalled. However, Harris’s team was unsure why the video was necessary.
“Harris’s longtime advisers pushed back, asking why the Obamas wouldn’t just put out a paper statement or a tweet,” Allen and Parnes noted. “A bewildered Obama aide replied that the video was the Harris campaign’s idea.”
An individual aware of Biden’s campaign financial struggles later explained to the authors: “Jen wanted a video because we were hard up for cash. But she didn’t tell anybody. She wasn’t transparent about it. Logistically, it was a pain in the butt.”