Most Americans say they think President Trump is serious about running for a third term and about the United States merging with Canada and taking over Greenland, according to a survey released Tuesday.
The Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 62 percent of Americans said the president is serious about serving a third term in the White House, despite it being at odds with the 22nd Amendment.
Almost all Democrats, and about 6 in 10 independents, said they think Trump is serious about another presidential run. Less than 40 percent of Republicans said they think the president is serious, the poll found.
Trump said in an interview with The Atlantic published Monday that a run for a third term “would be a big shattering.”
“Well, maybe I’m just trying to shatter,” the president told the magazine. “It’s not something that I’m looking to do. And I think it would be a very hard thing to do.”
The majority of Americans, 68 percent, said Trump is serious about the U.S. taking control of Greenland, the world’s largest island and a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. About 81 percent of Democrats and 65 percent of independents say the president is serious, while 58 percent of GOP respondents agreed.
Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen recently said the island “will never, ever be a piece of property that can be bought by just anyone.”
Just more than half of respondents, 53 percent, take Trump’s rhetoric about the U.S. taking control of Canada seriously. There are vast disparities between party lines — a large majority of Democrats, 75 percent, think the president is serious about it, but just 49 percent of independents and 35 percent of Republicans take Trump’s threat seriously.
The survey was conducted April 18-22 among 2,464 U.S. adults. The margin of error was 2 percentage points.
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