President Donald Trump was speaking at a small business summit on Monday when he made a chilling prediction about when he plans to leave office.

″...And this way, when I get out of office, in, let’s say, eight or nine years from now, I’ll be able to use it myself,” Trump said about small business tax deductions.

Trump has frequently mentioned the idea of seeking a third term in office. Last year, he told NBC News that he was not “joking” about the prospect, saying “a lot of people want me to do it.”

“I’m not looking at that,” he told reporters on Air Force One in March 2025. “But I’ll tell you, I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election, was totally rigged, so it’s actually sort of a fourth term.”

While many Trump supporters have dismissed the idea as a joke, critics contend the public should take the president at his word.

“I fear that we will not have an election in 2028. I really mean that in the core of my soul − unless we wake up to the code red, what’s happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said last year.

Trump has even had “Trump 2028” merchandise made and prominently features it in his official Trump store.

Critics on social media were quick to sound off on Trump’s latest suggestion that he should not only serve a third term, but seemingly a fourth as well:

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