House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said that “Trump 2028” hats suddenly appeared on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office during President Trump’s meeting earlier this week with the top four congressional leaders.

Trump released photographs on Truth Social of the leaders sitting around the desk, with the hats in front of them. Jeffries told CNN in an interview that Trump didn’t try to hand the hats to him or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), but instead they just showed up on the desk.

“They just randomly appeared in the middle of the meeting on the desk. It was the strangest thing ever,” Jeffries he told the outlet Tuesday night. “I just looked at the hat, looked at [Vice President] JD Vance, who was seated to my left, and said, ‘Don’t you got a problem with this?’ and he said, ‘No comment.’ And that was the end of it.”

Trump and his allies have repeatedly floated the idea of a constitutionally prohibited third term and although at times those comments have been dismissed as a joke, the president has at other points appeared more serious about the idea. Trump in August said he would “probably not” seek a third term but added, with a chuckle, that he would like to run.

He also said at the time it was too soon to settle on a successor to serve as the Republican nominee in 2028, but he acknowledged Vance is the “most likely” heir apparent. The president suggested Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who ran for president in 2016, could make a formidable ticket with Vance.

Vance told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in August that Trump wants him to focus on the current work of this administration, when pressed on their conversations over 2028.

And, when asked if he sees himself as the heir apparent of the MAGA movement, Vance said, “No. I see myself as a vice president who’s trying to do a good job for the American people.”