US President Donald Trump jokingly said that he might leave the White House after two more terms. And then boasted about his physical and mental health against the backdrop of his upcoming 80th birthday.
He said this at a small business summit on May 4, The Independent reports.
Trump's words were perceived by some as an explicit threat to try to challenge the provision of the 22nd Amendment, according to which "no person shall be elected to the office of president more than twice."
"When I leave office, say, in eight or nine years, I can use it. I can use it myself," Trump joked, referring to a provision of the law that allows businesses to deduct the cost of new facilities. The statement drew laughter from the audience.
He later returned to discussing his age and physical fitness, and suggested that Biden would not pass the cognitive tests that are conducted as part of the president's annual physical. Trump will turn 80 on June 14.
"Anyone who runs for President or Vice President has to take a cognitive test. And no President has ever taken a test like that except me. I took three of them and I got the highest scores on all of them: one in my first term, two in this one. How do you think Biden would do? I don't think so… He probably wouldn't even get the first question right," Trump said.
He also hinted that his guests wouldn't be able to pass this test with "excellence": "I think everybody in this room is brilliant, but nobody is going to get all 30 questions right, nobody. Because when you get to the last few questions, they're pretty tough. You have to be really smart."
Since his first presidency, he has faced accusations of diminished mental acuity from time to time. He first boasted that he had brilliantly passed such a test in 2020, during the election campaign against Biden.
"There were 30 or 35 questions. The first questions are very simple. The last questions are much more difficult. For example, memory questions. It's like, you say: "Man, woman, man, camera, TV." Then they say: "Could you repeat that?" So I said: "Yes." So it's: "Man, woman, man, camera, TV," Trump said in an interview with Fox News in July of that year.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in the meantime, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will pay a visit to the Vatican and then move on to the Italian government amid the recent quarrels of US President Donald Trump with Pope Leo XIV and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
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