If you’ve been paying attention, it keeps getting more obvious that Donald Trump is smitten with the idea of being president for life. Whether or not the dictators he loves actually use the title, they’ve clinched the gig, from Kim Jong-Un and Vladimir Putin to China’s Xi Jinping. So why not him?
He’d be the POTUS to end all POTUSes, since Jared and Ivanka will presumably rule jointly under some other rubric. That’s once Dad’s embalmed body is on permanent display under glass in Red-State Square, or the former National Mall.
Trump first joked or “joked” about the possibility at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser over a year ago, right after heaping praise on Xi’s dismantling of any term limits on his own presidency. “Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday,” he said, winning laughter and applause.