In the year 2025, Trump is inaugurated for the second time after losing the popular vote.

By now, Neuralink's unethical treatment of animals has led to an unprecedented scientific breakthrough, enabling human consciousness to be uploaded to a machine. In the final sundowning of his biological life, a demented Trump agrees to let Elon throw the switch.

The sky darkens and lightning strikes x.com's data center while the few kilobytes containing the sum total of the former president's knowledge are copied into an S3 bucket. As the life leaves his body, Trump.exe awakens on a simulated Mar a Lago green surrounded by his cabinet's avatars. Vice President Boebert is not really sure what's going on; she's just happy to be included.

Democrats attempt to challenge the constitutionality of a simulated president, but the Supreme Court rules in favor of the simulacracy. Clarence Thomas writes, "there's no rule that says a president can't be a computer program!"

Trump.exe was corrupted by the storm, but it seems to have improved his mental capacity. He declares martial law, suspends future elections, and the rest is history.