Trump 2024 and other options for president once he leaves the White House

Now what? That’s what Donald Trump, in his most honest moments, seems to be asking himself. In the usual Washington drip, drip, drip of tidbits, tweets and scuttlebutt, the president seems to be – though at a glacial pace – realising he won’t be president come 20 January.

Mr Trump actually wrote the words “he won” in a Sunday morning tweet about President-elect Joe Biden, though it was followed by more baseless claims of a “rigged” election and voter fraud.

But he and his surrogates have been busy doing two things: filing lawsuits in federal courts that have almost all been quickly tossed by judges in several swing states; and building a public relations message that keeps open several post-White House options.