Trump can’t run for a third term without changing the Constitution, but he’s still raising big campaign bucks
President Donald Trump just hosted a $1 million-per-plate campaign dinner – a fundraiser despite a constitutional prohibition against him running for a third term.
The event on April 24 at the Trump National Golf Club in suburban Washington, D.C., raised money for the MAGA Inc. super political action committee, which can raise unlimited amounts but can’t coordinate with Trump’s own campaign committee. Details on what was said at the dinner remain under wraps. TV cameras and reporters were kept out of the event, which the president traveled to via helicopter and a motorcade from the White House. Since his January inauguration, Trump has hosted at least three such big-dollars dinners at his Mar-a-Lago estate in South Florida to raise funds for the super PAC.
“Presidents are the fundraisers in chief,” said Ray LaRaja, a political science professor at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. “It’s only the first year of his term. He’s not quite the lame duck with donors.”
