Donald Trump is once again using artificial intelligence to push a provocative message — this time, suggesting he should remain president indefinitely.
On Sunday, the former president posted an AI-edited version of a 2018 Time magazine cover on his Truth Social platform. The altered video showed Trump’s campaign yard signs stretching across decades, with the years quickly advancing to “90,000” before flashing the phrase “Trump 4Eva.” Trump, 79, had previously shared the same video in 2019.
The post appeared just one day after approximately 7 million people participated in nationwide “No Kings” protests on Oct. 18, demonstrating against Trump’s presidency and his perceived authoritarian ambitions.
Trump also used AI imagery that same day to mock protesters, sharing another fake video on Truth Social that depicted him — wearing a crown and sitting in a fighter jet labeled “King Trump” — dumping brown liquid over what looked like New York City’s Times Square.
In March, Trump told NBC News he was “not joking” about the idea of seeking a third term, despite the U.S. Constitution’s two-term limit. “A lot of people want me to do it,” he said in the March 30 phone interview. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration … I’m not joking. But I’m not — it is far too early to think about it.”
He added that “there are methods” by which such a move could happen but didn’t elaborate further.
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in February 1951, explicitly prohibits any person from being elected president more than twice. It states:
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.”
