Donald Trump has made comments in the past suggesting he’s eyeing up a third term in office.

Should Trump run for president once more, it would make him the first person to have done so since Franklin Roosevelt.

This comes down to the fact that it’s currently prohibited for a person to run for more than two terms in office, which is outlined in America’s 22nd Amendment.

What does the Amendment say?

The 22nd Amendment states, as per the National Constitution Center: “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.”

What has Trump said about running again?

Trump has hinted on several occasions that he wants to run for office once more.

He first suggested it back in 2022, says TIME, during his campaign for reelection before losing to Joe Biden.

“We’re going to win Nevada and we’re going to win four more years in the White House,” Trump teased at the time.

“And then after that we’ll negotiate. Right? Because we’re probably—based on the way we were treated—we’re probably entitled to another four after that.”

He was quoted by MSNBC telling House Republicans last November after winning the election: “I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say he’s so good we have got to figure something else out.”

More recently, Trump boasted how much money he’s raised and suggested that entitled him to run again.

Speaking to House Republicans in Florida last month, the 78-year-old said: “I’ve raised a lot of money for the next race, that I assume I can’t use for myself, but I’m not 100% sure because… I don’t know, I think I’m not allowed to run again. I’m not sure. Am I allowed to run again, Mike [Johnson]?”

How Trump could run for a third term

While it’s currently prohibited for a person to run more than twice, a bombshell proposal put recently forward by US Representative Andy Ogles suggested changes to the 22nd Amendment so Trump could be president for another four years after his current term.

Ogles suggested that amendment be changed so that it reads: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, 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 twice.”

It’s been suggested that Trump may try bend the rules to run again (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The wording for the proposal, should it go through, would allow Trump to run again, but not former presidents like Barack Obama as he ran for two terms consecutively.

Politico reports this proposal passing is an extremely unlikely scenario, with it requiring two-thirds support in both chambers of Congress, or two-thirds of the states to call for a constitutional amendment, and then three-fourths of the states would have to ratify it. US politics is currently too divided for this to happen.

Elsewhere, Politico has pointed out that there’s a bit of loophole in the 22nd Amendment because of its wording.

The amendment states that a person cannot be elected to run for a third term; but it doesn’t say anything about serving a third term.

With this in mind, it’s possible that Trump could work his way around such wording to find himself president again for another four years. For instance, he could run as vice president, have the presidential candidate agree to step down on day one, and he could find himself back in the White House post-2028.

John Fortier, senior research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has however said that there are laws that prevent this legal loophole from being exploited.

He told Sky News that a president or anyone in the line of succession for president ‘must meet the qualifications to become president’.

Fans are losing it over Meryl Streep’s hilarious NSFW gesture during SNL’s 50th anniversary concert.

One of America’s favorite late night TV shows that has graced our screens for the past five decades is celebrating its big birthday bash.

Saturday Night Live has already kicked off its weekend of fun, starting with an SNL50 homecoming concert at Radio City Music Hall on Valentine’s Day, while preparing for its three-hour live special on Sunday which promises to be jam-packed with series alums, former hosts and the OG cast members.

And in true SNL style, the concert alone is getting a lot of laughs from viewers, with one NSFW moment with Meryl Streep since going viral.

The 75-year-old actress, who was sat next to Martin Short in the audience, was called out by hosts, Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer, after they said ‘someone’ was flipping people off during the show.

“We’re talking about you, Meryl Streep,” Gasteyer said as the camera swiftly panned to the record Golden Globe Award nominee and winner, who promptly raised her middle finger back at the hosts and to the camera.

The gag saw the audience burst into laughter and apparently tickled a lot of viewers from home, too.

Racing to Twitter, fans gushed the moment was ‘so funny’ and even a ‘highlight of an amazing show’.

One viewer wrote: “Meryl Streep flipping the finger is simply everything !! (+ look at how he’s looking at her)”, the fan made in reference to Short giggling next to Streep.

“Iconic”, another fan stated, while a third wrote: “MERYL STREEP THE LEGEND YOU ARE.”

It was apparently Streep’s night too as The Devil Wears Prada star later shared a heartwarming Valentine’s Day dance with Short, who have been longtime friends before romance rumors sparked last year.

The Only Murders in the Building co-stars were spotted laughing, clapping and dancing at the concert which aired on TV on Friday (February 14).

The pair have been friends for almost a decade, but they have seemingly gotten closer since filming the third season of the show with Streep playing the part of Short’s romantic interest, Loretta Durkin.

The pair have squashed dating rumors (Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)

Their affection and chemistry on and off screen sparked rumors they were perhaps more than friends. However, Short’s reps reportedly shut down the claims, telling The Messenger: “They are just very good friends, nothing more.”

Then on the Club Random podcast, the 74-year-old doubled down on squashing the rumors, saying: “We’re not a couple. We are just very close friends.”

Other notable moments at the SNL homecoming concert include Miley Cyrus’ performance, during which she reportedly called on the audience to sing along to ‘Flowers’ with her, Steven Spielberg appeared too busy checking out the camera set-up than watching the show.

Meanwhile, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson ‘walked out’ after being told it wasn’t an awards show while Ferrell and Gasteyer also delivered a performance of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’.

Pete Davidson has made waves in comedy circles, but the star recently reflected on the consistent fascination regarding his love life despite his success.

If Davidson is dating someone in Hollywood, you’ll likely see a fair few articles about it or people talking about it on Twitter.

This isn’t exactly how the comedian would want to be remembered.

Speaking in an interview with Page Six, he reflected on his past relationships and essentially being in the spotlight so much.

The star also gave an insight into how he and Ariana Grande now get along, as the pair were previously engaged for four months back in 2018.

Grande has also remained in the limelight over the years, most recently earning herself an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Wicked.

Davidson said: “When we see each other—which is few and far between, because we’re not in the same circles—it’s all love.

“I hope she wins the Oscar, I hope she takes the gold.”

The comedian also went on to say the fascination with him and his relationship with other stars was actually rather ‘humiliating and upsetting.’

He added: “I’ve had some pretty adult relationships with some pretty amazing women and when it’s ended it’s been cool.

“Everyone is dating everyone and it’s Hollywood.

“But because I’m ugly, they wrote about me. I was harassed for like five years and it made my life a living hell.

“You want people to write about your work. I was one of the youngest ever cast members on SNL and all that got pushed to the side because of who I was dating.”

He also commented that he has mixed feelings about how he has been perceived on the internet.

Davidson took issue with how he is perceived on the internet (Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images)

He noted that it was equally embarrassing as it was flattering when he was considered the focal point of BDE, a term meaning big d*** energy.

He continued: “I’m a very sensitive person and it’s humiliating to see a picture of yourself eating a sandwich in a pink T-shirt with the headline ‘This is what BDE is’.

With that said, he said he was comfortable and happy to recently strip off for an ad for Reformation, a female clothing company.

He joked: “If you’re going to be in underwear showing your mushrooms, you might as well get it out of the way before you turn 40.”

Talking about the future, the 32-year-old insisted that for the next 6 months he won’t be dating and that he was starting to turn his life around, abstaining from drugs and social media.

He simply added: “If I need to know something, my friends will tell me.”

Elon Musk’s DOGE website appears to have been hacked, with tech experts saying the site feels ‘completely slapped together’.

The tech mogul was appointed the head of the US government’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by President Donald Trump, tasked with a mission to ‘dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies’.

The website officially launched on Wednesday (12 February) as Musk promised the department would be ‘maximally transparent’ after critics pointed out the irony in the world’s richest man tasked with cutting funding while his own companies such as SpaceX have benefitted from the federal budget.

“I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization,” the Twitter owner said in the Oval Office with Trump this week.

However, the website didn’t last long before two of its pages were targeted by hackers on Friday (February 14), 404 Media reports.

One mysterious message was left on the site which read: “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN – roro.”

A second message added: “This is a joke of a .gov site.”

The Twitter owner’s website has reportedly been hacked (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Both have since been removed.

Web development experts also told the tech news outlet that the DOGE site ‘feels like it was completely slapped together’, containing ‘tons of errors and details leaked in the page source code’.

The pros said that they believed DOGE’s site has not been running on government servers.

Meanwhile, DOGE also reportedly posted classified staffing information of a US intelligence agency, Huffpost reported.

The function lets users ‘trace’ their ‘tax dollars from the bureaucracy’ and investigate Cabinet-level agencies and other departments to review staffing numbers and total wages earned.

Musk’s SpaceX has benefitted from the federal budget (CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

A note on the page says that the data excludes military, Postal Service, White House and other intelligence agencies, though DOGE’s database does give information about the federal agency behind US intelligence satellites.

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is the only intelligence agency on the website, The Independent reports, where Musk’s SpaceX has a $1.8 billion contract to build spy satellites.

Meanwhile, SpaceX has around $15 billion in contracts with NASA, which certainly makes it interesting that DOGE is set to investigate the space agency’s spending.

On whether Musk’s involvement with DOGE presents conflicts of interest at NASA, Janet Petro, NASA’s acting administrator, said ‘we have very strict conflict of interest policies,’ adding the agency’s legal office would vet any DOGE employee for such conflicts, Reuters reported.

Musk and his DOGE team have since gone on a cost-cutting spree which saw thousands of federal employees fired while the department doubled its own spending.

Government records obtained by Fortune reveal the scheme had spent $6.75 million by January, which has shot up to $14.4 million as of February 8.

A woman lost a body part after contracting a disease that caused a medieval plague.

The 24-year-old began experiencing strong burning sensations coming from both of her legs, running from the middle of her thighs all the way down to her toes, and two days after the pain began she checked herself into an outpatient clinic.

When doctors looked her over, they noticed how her feet had become discolored, while she was noticeably finding it difficult to walk. Upon further examination they realized her legs were cold – despite complaints that they were burning – and they couldn’t find a pulse coming from the popliteal and dorsalis pedis arteries.

A CT (computed tomography) scan uncovered that her arteries had narrowed, and after a simple blood thinner drug was administered the pain was alleviated greatly, and her legs began to get warmer as the blood flowed through her legs.

However, gangrene took over one of her toes which meant it required amputating.

So what was the ancient ‘holy fire’ disease she was diagnosed with?

It’s called ergotism and it is caused by the consumption of egot, which is a natural fungus that lives on wheat.

A ripe ear of grain containing the dark, and poisonous, ergot growing on it (Getty stock)

Ergot poisoining causes convulsions, hallucinations and gangrene, and in medieval times people even thought it was associated with demons or demonic possession of humans.

A study that was published in the National Library of Medicine, and titled ‘One holy man, one eponym, three distinct diseases. St. Anthony’s fire revisited’, talks through its history.

“The first mention to a gangrenous ergotism plague in Europe appeared in the year 857, in Germany. Several other records of epidemics then emerged in France, Germany and Scandinavia,” it explains.

“Overall, as many as 83 ergotism epidemics have been reported in various parts of Europe from 945 AD onwards, and this list is certainly incomplete.

St Anthony Abbot is credited with assisting in a number of miraculous healings, primarily from ergotism, which became known as ‘St. Anthony’s Fire’ (Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

“The German physician Wendelin Thelius, who described an epidemic developed in the year 1596 in the Kingdom of Hesse, was the very first to identify ergotism as the underlying cause.”

It wasn’t until 1676 that the cause was discovered to be that of infected rye by Claviceps Purpurea, which is an ergot fungus, although it wasn’t until 1778 that measures were first introduced to combat the plague.

The study added: “French physician Tessier observed a huge epidemic in the year 1778 in Sologne (France), during which more than 8000 people died, and was hence persuaded to recommend drainage of fields, compulsory cleaning of grain and replacement of infected grain with potatoes.”