The First Sunday Morning After Donald Trump Dies

FOTP News in Review for . . . Sunday, September 1st, 2041

Archive: First appeared on Sunday, December 2nd, 2018

(Updated: September 1st, 2024)

Host Kristen Welker:

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, if it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press. And Happy Labor Day to you all. As we know, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump, died at his home earlier this week of an apparent heart attack and a series of strokes brought on by atherosclerosis and diabetes and his ongoing battle with dementia. He was 95. President Ron DeSantis said of the former president, “He was the new father of the country, actually, replacing Washington,” while University of South Carolina President Lindsey Graham said, “I loved him like I have loved no other man. He belongs on Rushmore yesterday.”

President Trump, who served five terms, (2016-2020 and 2024-2040) — America’s longest-serving president — was impeached, twice, found guilty on 34 felony charges, assorted sexual abuse charges — both of which resulted in no jail time — and left for political dead after he called his 2024 Democratic presidential opponent Kamala Harris “one of those African American types who slept her way to the top” and then made an obscene gesture with his fist and his mouth, depicting oral sex, during their 2024 presidential debate. Still, in the closest election in American history, he was sworn in after legislators in Georgia, Arizona, and North Carolina refused to certify the results of their elections in which Harris received more votes. These states sent alternate slates of electors to Washington D.C., which were certified by Congress — a certification then ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court in early 2025. During his second, third, fourth, and fifth presidencies, President Trump ended NATO, deported one million undocumented workers (he promised to remove 11 million), signed into law Project 2027, which gutted many functions of government, federal and state. He instituted means-testing Social Security, eliminated the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Education. He also shot a man on the South Lawn of White House in 2029, whom, the president contended was trying to break into the residency. The president was never charged with a crime, though a gun on the alleged assailant was never found. Trump also had his justice department imprison left-leaning journalists, made abortion punishable by death, banned all trans athletes from participating high school sports, refused to pay the country’s United Nations dues, and helped to pass a flat tax of 12 percent nationally for corporations. We of course didn’t have an election in 2028, 2032, or 2036 due to Martial Law, imposed by Trump, and Trump then served until last year, 2040. He said, at the time, his actions, “Were totally necessary and only morons on the crooked left objected.” He also was the first president in history to call on his vice president, J.D. Vance, to resign (which Vance did) in 2026, and had him replaced him with his son, Don Jr., who, sadly, was killed in 2035 in an accident in Zimbabwe during an elephant hunt. There is much more to talk about when it comes to Trump’s imprimatur on the nation — we’ll run a special 2-hour show tonight on most NBC stations called “America: Living on Trump Time” — but joining us now is his daughter, recently married Ivanka Trump White, as well as Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, from Sunscape Boca Raton, an assisted living facility in Boca Raton, Florida; Ben Carson, author and former HUD director under Trump; and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who joins us from his home — one of his homes, I should say — in what used to be known as Kiev, Ukraine. Welcome all. First, to Ivanka Trump White, former UN Ambassador for ten years under her father. Ivanka, we know you just married to Dana White, CEO and president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, so congratulations. Welcome.