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ACKSHUALLY, it's that no one can be ELECTED to more than two TERMS:To avoid this he could step down as president before he has served 2 years. This would leave him eligible to run for president again since a person can serve as president for 10 years.
So Trump was rendered ineligible to be ELECTED again immediately on January 6th 2025 (and thus cannot be VP, either).22nd Amendment said: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."
You could get into an interesting thing where you have some regularly changed patsy figurehead who runs for President with Person 1 as VP, and upon being elected serves for a few days and then resigns. Person 1 becomes president, appointes Person 2 as VP, and serves for 729 days, then resigns. Person 2 serves as president for 729 days (with Person 1 as VP). Then it's time for elections. A new patsy (or perhaps the same, if they've only bene elected to one term) figurehead runs for president with Person 1 (or 2) as VP. The elected patsy serves for a few days and then resign, Person 1 beomes president... et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
You can have effecively Person 1 and Person 2 swapping off the presidency (and VP) evey 2y-1d for decades, each serving 20+ years, and each one sitting at zero terms counting against the two term limit the entire time.