Trump Campaign Manager: Get Ready for Presidents Ivanka, Jared, and Don Jr.

Donald Trump has suggested on multiple occasions that it would be great to be elected president for life and, barring that, that he’s considered refusing to vacate the White House when the American people vote him out or term limits mandate he can’t stay. According to his campaign manager, though, even if that stupid Constitution forces him to go, Trump needn’t worry about no longer holding power in Washington, because we’re only at the very beginning of the long national nightmare that is a Trump by blood or marriage in politics.

Speaking at a California Republican convention on Saturday, Brad Parscale said that “The Trumps will be a dynasty that lasts for decades.” Asked by reporters to explain what that meant, he said that the Trump kids and their spouses have “amazing capabilities,” adding, “I think you see that from Don Jr. I think you see that from Ivanka. You see it from Jared. You see it from all.”
The president, of course, has already claimed that if Ivanka—who is “seen by West Wing aides and people who have worked with the family as harboring ambitions of her own for elected office”—wanted to run for president, “she’d be very, very hard to beat,” despite the fact that it‘s not clear what she does all day other than attempt to distance herself from whatever scandal her father has gotten into that week. (According to Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, when the first daughter and her husband took their jobs in the White House, “the two had made an earnest deal: If sometime in the future the opportunity arose, she’d be the one to run for president.”) Speaking of Jared Kushner, his accomplishments in Washington thus far have been to unveil half of a peace plan for the Middle East that has been described as “C- [work] from an undergraduate student.” Don Jr.’s IQ may not meet the already quite low threshold necessary to run for public office, though, as the Times points out, he “is most naturally fluent in the language of the Republican base.”

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a campaign official insisted to Maggie Haberman that Parscale was “referring less to possible candidacies in the future and more to activities such as political speeches and fund-raising,” and that he only threw out the suggestion of a string of Trumps and Kushners in the White House because the president “and some in his family tended to crave flattery, particularly in public settings.” That’s an aspect of the job Parscale has excelled at, having indicated last April that Trump’s presidency is an act of God. “There has never been and probably never will be a movement like this again,” he wrote on Twitter. “Only God could deliver such a savior to our nation, and only God could allow me to help. God bless America!”

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