Unfortunately there is no rule, law or anything to prevent it. 45 can be selected to become speaker of the house he doesn't need to be a rep. already. Most likely it would be McCarthy with would be pretty much the same thing as he would do anything 45 tells him to do.

@GrooshStar - The Speaker is an elected position from amoung the dominant party in the House and has always been a member elected as a Representative. How trump would ever be elected to that position before 2023 (after the 2022 midterm elections and assuming Republicans take control of the House) is only the first hurdle. I understand that we have a rogue Republican party which seems increasing to make up their own rules as they go along (while accusing Democrats of doing the same) but there is a point that even some within their sychophant members would need to say they are bending the rules too far. We already see some of that going on. As far back as 2016 when trump was elected we saw certain prominent conservative journalists such as George Will leave the Republican party to become independents. More recently, we have seen a few other Republicans push back against the trump nonsense attempts to pervert our government, and Republican party has lost membership. The Lincoln Project was formed by former Republicans who could not stomach what the Republican party had become under trump (I'd like to think kt was also because of McConnell, but that may not be correct). I have trouble believing that as Republicans would need to break traditions and Constitutional rules in order to reinstate trump as president, that enough of them would break ranks and not allow it to happen. trump has no scruples and he may know how to apply pressure to get some of what he wants, but not everything. Certain Republicans (and Democrats) may have none either, but not all of them. It's difficult for me go believe that the plan to reinstate trump as president - especially within the next 30 day - has a snowball's chance in hell of coming to pass.

@RussRAB WRONG! Yes the speaker has to be selected by the ruling party BUT there is NO rule saying that person has to be a current member of the house. Yes it has always been that person has been a current member but we've already seem them trample on norms.

@GrooshStar - Fine. He would still need to be elected Speaker by the House which currently has a majority of Democrats. Not any too likely trump will be elected with this make up of the House. Yes, Republicans - especially the trump variety - will trample the norms when given the chance. Even so, they would need to get around the majority Democrats in both Houses of Congress. When voting determines to outcome, it is not likely that trump will be elected Speaker ousting Pelosi or that Articles of Impeachment will pass on Biden. Then there is very little doubt the Senate majority of Democrats will convict and remove Biden as President even if Impeachment passes the House. It's just one ultra long shot after another. More likely trump would attempt another coup to take over the Presidency.

@RussRAB agreed.