President Donald Trump in his interview to The Atlantic denied that he asked his Justice Department to look into the legality of his running again in 2028, though he never doused the possibility, and in fact recently said that he was not joking about it. The Constitution prohibits anyone from becoming the president twice but he dropped hints earlier that there are some loopholes which can be worked out.
One such option is if Trump runs for vice president in 2028 with JD Vance running for president. If they win, JD Vance can resign, making way for the vice president Trump to become the president once again.
Amid speculations over whether this is something the Trump administration is looking at, his organization came out with Trump 2028 hats, T-shirts.

What Trump said to Atlantic

The Atlantic interview says: We asked Trump about a rumor we’d heard that he had tasked his Justice Department with looking into the legality of his running again in 2028. He said he hadn’t, but then seemed to leave open the possibility. Was this the rare democratic norm he was unwilling to shatter? “That would be a big shattering, wouldn’t it?” he mused, laughing. “Well, maybe I’m just trying to shatter.” He noted, twice, that his supporters regularly shout for him to seek a third term, but concluded, “It’s not something that I’m looking to do. And I think it would be a very hard thing to do.” But not, it appears, a hard thing to profit from: The Trump Organization is now selling “Trump 2028” hats.

What Trump told to TIME

“I don’t know anything about, what, look, all I can say is this, I am being inundated with requests. I’m doing a good job. Great physical exam, and unlike every other president, I took the cognitive test and I aced it 100% and I bet you guys couldn’t get 100% on that exam. It’s a tough exam. You know, when you get into the mid questions, it gets to be pretty tricky and pretty tough, and the last questions are very tough, and I aced it. And I guarantee, I’d give you, I’d make a big, beautiful bet that you guys couldn’t ace it. But anyway. But look, it’s good to have you, it’s a very nasty interview. They don’t ask any of the good things,” Trump said about becoming JD Vance’s running partner in 2028.

Motorists drive past traffic lights that stopped working following a power outage in downtown Lisbon, Portugal, on April 28, 2025.
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Spain and Portugal were hit by a widespread power blackout on Monday (April 28, 2025) that paralysed public transport, caused large traffic jams and delayed airline flights, and utility operators were scrambling to restore the grid.

Authorities were unable to explain the cause of the outage at least an hour after it occurred, though a possible cyber attack had not been ruled out and investigations were ongoing, officials said. A crisis committee was set up in Spain to manage the situation, according to people familiar with the situation.

The Spanish and Portuguese governments convened emergency cabinet meetings after the outage, which also briefly affected a part of France, which borders northeastern Spain.

Portugal’s utility REN confirmed a cut in electricity across the Iberian Peninsula that also affected part of France, while Spanish grid operator Red Electrica said it was working with regional energy companies to restore power.

“All plans for the phased restoration of energy supply are being activated, in coordination with European energy producers and operators,” a REN spokesperson said.

“REN is in permanent contact with official entities, namely the National Civil Protection Authority. At the same time, the possible causes of this incident are being assessed.”

Play at the Madrid Open tennis tournament was suspended, forcing 15th seed Grigor Dimitrov and British opponent Jacob Fearnley off the court as scoreboards went dark and overhead cameras lost power.

The Madrid Open tennis tournament venue is empty during a general blackout in Madrid on April 28, 2025.
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Spanish radio stations said part of the Madrid underground was being evacuated. There were traffic jams in Madrid city centre as traffic lights stopped working, Cader Ser Radio station reported.

Hundreds of people stood outside office buildings on Madrid’s streets, and there was a heavy police presence around key buildings, directing traffic as well as driving along central atriums with lights, according to a Reuters witness.

“One of four tower buildings in Madrid that houses the British Embassy had been evacuated,” the witness added.

Local radio reported people trapped in stalled metro cars and elevators. Portuguese police said traffic lights were affected across the country, the metro was closed in Lisbon and Porto, and trains were not running. “Lisbon’s subway transport operator Metropolitano de Lisboa said the subway was at a standstill with people still inside the trains,” according to Publico newspaper.

A source at Portugal’s TAP Air said Lisbon airport was running on back-up generators, while AENA, which manages 46 airports in Spain, reported flight delays around the country.

In France, grid operator RTE said there was a brief outage but power had been restored. It was investigating the cause.

PARIS: France on Monday accused the United States of violating international law after President Donald Trump signed an order to fast-track deep-sea mining in the open ocean outside his country’s territorial waters.
Washington wants to spearhead mining for mineral-rich nodules in the deepest ocean floor, sidestepping a global effort to regulate such potentially damaging exploration.
France has led a diplomatic push to impose a global moratorium on deep-sea mining until more is known about its potential environmental consequences.
The country’s ambassador for the oceans, Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, said the United States was “violating the principle of non-appropriation of the high seas” by looking to issue mining permits in international waters.
“No one can claim the right to destroy the oceans, especially those over which they have no territorial rights. This is the strict application of international law,” Poivre d’Arvor told journalists in an online briefing.
“The abyss is not for sale,” he added.
The seafloor holds untapped stores of key minerals that are essential for modern technology. But the ecology of that dark realm is still poorly understood.
As commercial interest in the seabed has grown, global regulators have tried to devise a level playing field and environmental protections for the nascent deep-sea mining industry.
The United States never ratified the agreements that empower the International Seabed Authority’s jurisdiction over seabeds in international waters, and is not a member of the UN-affiliated body.
Poivre d’Arvor said that France, which is hosting the UN Oceans Conference in June, has forged a coalition of 32 countries opposed to deep-sea mining until the long-term impacts are better understood.
Some 20 experts signed a scientific report last month calling for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining for at least 10 to 15 years or until enough information is available.
“It’s urgent to wait, not to rush into it right away,” Bruno David, a prominent French scientist commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron to write the report, told journalists on Monday.
The report warned that dredging the seafloor for minerals could spread giant clouds of sediment for hundreds of square kilometres beyond the mining site and risked heavy metals impacting the food chain.
“Science must guide our choices,” added David, describing the actions of Trump’s administration as “delusional”.
China, which holds more exploration licences than any other country, but has held off mining awaiting the ISA’s rules, last week said Washington’s decision harmed global interests and violated international norms.