It is a shame President Donald Trump has ruled out a third term.

Running again would have made the Democrats crazier than they already are—if that is possible.

Although barred constitutionally from running for a third term, Trump, 78, possibly could have gotten around the Constitution by running for vice president in 2028 on a ticket headed by Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Once elected, President Vance or President Rubio would resign, and Vice President Trump would become president a gain.

Far-fetched as the idea is, the “Russian shuffle” is the way Russian President Vladimir Putin has stayed in power so long.

The third term gambit gained some publicity a month ago when the Trump Organization, led by his sons, began selling Trump 2028 hats at  $50 a pop with the description: “The future looks bright. Rewrite the rules with a Trump 2028 high crown hat.”

“There are many people selling   the 2028 hat,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

“But this is not something I’m looking to do. I’m looking four great years and turn it over to somebody, ideally a great Republican, a great Republican to carry it forward,” he said.

Which in a way is too bad.

Another four years would have given Trump more times to change history by renaming portions of the world, like he changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Now on his way to Saudi Arabia for a high-level meeting dealing with the turmoil in the region, Trump, in an apparent dig at Iran, wants to rename the Persian Gulf the Gulf of Arabia or the Arabian Gulf.

Iran was once Persia, and the gulf has been called the Persian Gulf since the 16th Century. Not only does Iran border the Persian Gulf, so does Doha, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

Iran was quick to respond to Trump’s “politically motivated,” and “hostile” act.

Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, said the proposed name change would have no validity but “will only bring the wrath of all Iranians.”

However, when it comes to name changes—or name calling, for that matter—Trump is in a class of  his own.

The next thing you know he will be proposing that United State of America, named in a quirk after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, be renamed the United States of Columbus, who “discovered” the America in the first place.

Vespucci got the name only because a German mapmaker  named  Waldseemuller published a map in1538 crediting Vespucci with discovering a portion of Brazil.

He called it Amerigo, after Vespucci.  Later, mapmakers simply applied the name to the land masses known as North and South America. Amerigo became America.

Waldseemuller could easily have called the discovered new land Vespucci instead of  Amerigo.  Had he done so we all could have in all these years been living in the United States of Vespucci.

North and South America would have been North and South Vespucci.

Maybe the Iranians could propose that name change in spiteful retaliation.

This is not to give President Trump any ideas he hasn’t already thought of.  What’s the sense of being president if you can’t go around naming and renaming things?

But if he proposed changing America to Vespucci, it would do much to take the heat off  Columbus who had gotten bad reputation from progressives over the years.

It would also go well not only among Italian American voters, but Hispanic Americans as well since Vespucci, although from Italy, sailed under the flag of Spain and married a Spanish woman as well.

The campaign slogan? Make Vespucci Great Again.

Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com