Trump jokes about running for a THIRD TERM if Congress can 'figure something else out' as MAGA takes over Washington, D.C.

President-elect Donald Trump joked about running for a third term as he addressed the House GOP conference Wednesday morning.

Trump triumphantly returned to Washington, D.C., a week and one day after his election victory, for a meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House .

Prior to his meet-and-greet with the Democratic president, Trump addressed members of his own party on Capitol Hill.

'I suspect I won't be running again unless you say he's so good we've got to figure something else out,' the 78-year-old joked.

Trump has long made jokes about serving as president indefinitely - with Democrats pointing to those quips as evidence of the ex-president's authoritarian leanings.

In the past, Trump has commended Chinese President Xi Jinping for abolishing term limits for himself.

'He's now president for life. President for life. No, he's great,' Trump said in 2018. 'And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day.'

Of course, Trump was thwarted in 2020 by Biden, who was able to pull the so-called 'blue wall' states away from the Republican - Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania - and also win the traditional red states of Arizona and Georgia.

Now, four years later, Trump comes back to Washington after peeling away every single swing state from Biden's successor on the Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump was introduced at the conference meeting by House Speaker Mike Johnson, who called him the '47th president of the United States.'

The president-elect came to the podium with his traditional walk-on song, Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA.

'Isn't it nice to win?' Trump asked his fellow Republicans.

'We won all seven swing states by a lot,' Trump said, adding that he had also almost won New Jersey. 'It's got them very worried. Because they say well next time if we go up just a fraction of what we went up, you're going to win New York, you're going to win New Jersey. You're going to win places that weren't winnable. California too.'

New Jersey went 51.8 percent for Harris and 46.3 percent for Trump, with 94 percent of the votes in the state reported. Harris won New Jersey's 14 Electoral College votes.

The 22nd Amendment bars a person twice elected as president from serving any more terms.

The amendment was ratified in 1951 after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times.

It would take more than Congressional approval to change the Constitution, as the ratification process is outlined in Article V.

To approve a change, three-fourths of state legislatures or three-fourths of state ratifying conventions would have to say yes - an extremely steep climb in a country that's almost evenly politically divided between Democrats and Republicans.