President Donald Trump's second term in office is only two months old but some are already looking forward to the 2028 election and speculating about who the next president might be.

In a bombshell declaration that is certain to shock and outrage Democrats, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon boldly predicted that Trump will run for and win a third presidential term, according to Penn Live.

Bannon's confident assertion that Trump will remain the president past the 2028 election, and Trump's own repeated jokes on the topic, come even though a constitutional amendment seemingly limits Trump, or any other president, to serving only two elected terms in office.

Bannon predicts Trump will still be president after 2028

"War Room" podcast host Bannon, a longtime staunch supporter of President Trump, shared his stunning view on how he sees the 2028 election turning out during an interview this week with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo, who queried Bannon on who he thought might be the successor to Trump's MAGA movement in the next election cycle.

"I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028, so I’ve already endorsed President Trump,” Bannon told Cuomo. "A man like this comes along once every century, if we’re a little lucky. We’ve got him now. He’s on fire, and I’m a huge supporter. I wanna see him again in 2028."

Asked how Trump's team might overcome the constitutional two-term limit, Bannon replied, "We’re working on it. I think we’ll have a couple of alternatives," and though he declined to provide any details on what those alternatives entailed, he seemed to indicate that litigation could be part of the plan as he pointed out that a lot depends upon "what the definition of term limit is."

"We have had greater longshots than Trump 2028," Bannon says

On multiple occasions, Cuomo offered Bannon an opportunity to clarify for viewers and the media that he was not calling for President Trump to remain in office for a third term by way of an "insurrection" or "revolution," and repeatedly reminded his guest that the U.S. Constitution appeared to explicitly prohibit any additional terms for the current two-term president.

Bannon ignored all of that and instead spoke of how Trump was the "longest of longshots to return to the White House" after the 2020 election and was even largely dismissed throughout much of the 2024 campaign, but that Trump's team remained focused on the goal of winning re-election.

"This was many years in the making. So, we have had greater longshots than Trump 2028, and we have a lot of stuff we are working on there," Bannon said, and added, "We are not prepared to talk about it publicly, but in a couple of months I think we will be."

How might Trump get around the 22nd Amendment?

The U.S. Constitution's 22nd Amendment, introduced and ratified in response to former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's unprecedented four terms in office, 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."

While that seemingly straightforward language would appear to preclude any further discussion of a third term for President Trump, the situation may not be as clear-cut as some might presume, and an interesting Politico article in January explored four possible ways that Trump might be able to secure an additional term in the White House.

The first possibility would be to repeal or replace the 22nd Amendment -- The Hill reported that legislation has already been introduced for and against that idea -- while the second exploits an apparent loophole in which Trump could run for vice president and then be subsequently elevated to a third presidential term following the resignation or removal of his running mate.

The other two possibilities envisioned by Politico were a bit darker and involved Trump either launching a 2028 campaign and daring the courts to stop him or simply refusing to leave office in January 2029, regardless of what the outcome of the 2028 election might be.