{"id":136227,"date":"2025-05-05T02:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-says-he-will-not-seek-a-third-term-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T02:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:23:05","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-says-he-will-not-seek-a-third-term-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-says-he-will-not-seek-a-third-term-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: President says he will not seek a third term – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump says he \u2018doesn\u2019t know\u2019 if he has to uphold constitutional due process and won\u2019t rule out using military force to take Greenland \u2013 key US politics stories from 4 May at a glance
Donald Trump has said he sees himself as leaving office at the end of his current term and not seeking a third one \u2013 something he has not previously always been consistent on<\/a> even though a third term is widely seen as unconstitutional<\/a>.
\u201cI\u2019ll be an eight-year president, I\u2019ll be a two-term president. I always thought that was very important,\u201d Trump said, acknowledging the constitutional constraints preventing him from seeking a third term. But he added that some people want him to serve a third term, which is prohibited by a constitutional amendment passed in 1947.
\u201cI\u2019m looking to have four great years and turn it over to somebody, ideally a great Republican, a great Republican to carry it forward,\u201d he added.
Here are the key stories at a glance:
US President Donald Trump has said that he does not know whether he must uphold the US constitution, the nation\u2019s founding legal document.
In a wide-ranging NBC News interview Meet the Press, moderator Kristen Welker asked if people in the United States \u2013 citizens and non-citizens alike \u2013 deserve the due process of law, as the US constitution states. Trump said: \u201cI\u2019m not a lawyer. I don\u2019t know.\u201d
Pressed more generally on whether he believes he needs to uphold the supreme law of the land, Trump repeated: \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d
In the same interview the US president also said he saw himself as leaving office at the end of his current term and not seeking a third one
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Donald Trump would not rule out using military force to gain control of Greenland<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest island and an autonomous territory within Denmark<\/a>, a fellow Nato member with the US.
Since taking office, the US president has repeatedly expressed the idea<\/a> of US expansion into Greenland, triggering widespread condemnation and unease both on the island itself and in the global diplomatic community. Greenland is seen as strategically important both for defence and as a future source of mineral wealth.
In his interview with NBC\u2019s Meet The Press, Trump was asked whether he would rule out using force against the territory.
\u201cI don\u2019t rule it out. I don\u2019t say I\u2019m going to do it, but I don\u2019t rule out anything. No, not there. We need Greenland<\/a> very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we\u2019ll take care of, and we\u2019ll cherish them, and all of that. But we need that for international security,\u201d Trump said.
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The heads of embattled US public broadcasters, National Public Radio<\/a> (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service<\/a> (PBS), defended themselves against efforts by the Trump administration<\/a> to cut off taxpayer funding, with both telling a Sunday political talkshow they were looking at legal options.
PBS\u2019s chief executive, Paula Kerger, told CBS News\u2019s Face the Nation that Republican-led threats to withdraw federal funding from public broadcasters had been around for decades but are \u201cdifferent this time\u201d.
Kerger said: \u201cThey\u2019re coming after us on many different ways \u2026 we have never seen a circumstance like this, and obviously we\u2019re going to be pushing back very hard, because what\u2019s at risk are our stations, our public television, our public radio stations across the country.\u201d
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Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff<\/a> on all movies \u201cproduced in Foreign Lands\u201d.
In his post, he claimed to have authorised the Department of Commerce and the US trade representative to immediately begin instituting such a tariff, although he gave no details on how it would be implemented.
\u201cThis is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat,\u201d Trump said in the Truth Social post<\/a>. \u201cIt is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!\u201d
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Dozens of US arts organisations have been notified that offers of government grants have been terminated, hours after Donald Trump proposed eliminating federal agencies that support arts, humanities and learning.
The cancellation of grant offers were reported from organisations across the US, including a $25,000 offer to a playhouse in Portland, Oregon, hours before the opening of a new production, August Wilson\u2019s Joe Turner\u2019s Come and Gone.
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The president started his second term fast and furious with a flurry of activity \u2013 much of it legally dubious \u2013 but analysts say the honeymoon is over, writes the Guardian\u2019s David Smith<\/strong>.
After a hundred days in which Trump at times appeared invincible, political gravity is exerting itself. A majority of Americans regard him as both a failure and a would-be dictator. From the courts to the streets, from law offices to college campuses, revolt is swelling. Republicans<\/a> are <\/em>eyeing<\/em> next year\u2019s midterm elections with nervousness.<\/em>
\u201cThe honeymoon is over,\u201d said John Zogby<\/a>, an author and pollster. \u201cHe actually squandered his hundred days, perhaps you can argue, by doing too much, not succeeding with much of it and overplaying his hand. At the end of the 100 days his polling numbers reflect an unsuccessful quarter. Every poll that I know of, including mine, has him upside down.\u201d<\/em>
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Trump said on Sunday that he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay to \u201chouse America\u2019s most ruthless and violent Offenders.\u201d
Trump said he was considering naming his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller as national security adviser and expects to appoint a successor to Mike Waltz within six months. Trump made the comments while speaking to reporters on Air Force One.
An ultranationalist who opposes military aid to Ukraine<\/a>, has vilified the EU\u2019s leaders, and calls himself Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cnatural ally\u201d has won the first round of Romania\u2019s rerun presidential vote.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 3 May<\/a> 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n

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