The “returning” Trump…the second American president for two non-consecutive terms after “Cleveland”

Donald Trump, the US President-elect, is preparing to enter the White House for the second time after assuming office for the first time in 2017 following his victory over his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, to become the forty-fifth President of the United States.
Trump left office on January 20, 2021, after losing to President Joe Biden, whose term ends today.
Despite his refusal to admit defeat at the time and his accusation of fraud in the elections, Trump is now back to becoming the forty-seventh president.

Under the US Constitution, which prohibits the presidency for more than two terms, whether consecutive or non-consecutive in accordance with the 22nd Amendment passed in 1951, this term will be Trump’s last.
His second term is scheduled to begin today, January 20, 2025, and continue until 2028.

Trump was not the only one to succeed in two non-consecutive terms. He was preceded by Grover Cleveland, the only other president to hold office for two non-consecutive terms.
Cleveland won the election in 1884, becoming the twenty-second president of the United States, but he lost in the next election in 1888 to his Republican rival, Benjamin Harrison.
Cleveland later came back to win the 1892 election, defeating Harrison, to become the 24th president and the first American president to serve two non-consecutive terms.

Before the ratification of the constitutional amendment limiting the presidency to two terms, Franklin Roosevelt achieved the historic feat of winning four consecutive terms in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944.
After this amendment, six American presidents between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries were able to win two consecutive terms: Woodrow Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George Bush Jr., and Barack Obama.