Leader of the opposition

Donald Trump may exit the White House, but he will not exit the stage.

There are numerous existing roles he could play once he vacates the White House (or is vacated from it, as the case may be) in January to stay upon it. But Trump appears intent on writing himself a new script, one that would allow him to remain a starring player in America’s political drama for the next four years and forge, as the journalist Garrett M. Graff phrased it, a post-presidency “unlike anything America — or the world — has ever experienced.”