If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?
POTUS
If I could step into anyone’s body for twenty four hours, my choice would probably take you by more than surprise. I would not choose a poet, an artist, or a tech-bro. I would choose Donald J. Trump.
Got know you’re thinking but it isn’t for the spectacle.
It isn’t my undying love of red hats.
I don’t want the gold plated rooms.
I want the unprecedented power he has over the world.
It’s all about the Power.
Whether people love him or fear him, he has managed to consolidate a level of political influence that bends institutions, commands headlines, and shifts the global conversation with a sentence. He has halted the printing of passports without prior government authorization, dropped bombs without following correct check and balances, deported people who spent there whole life here, and many more things that are a breach of his power. So If I had access to that mechanism for a single day, I would not use it to punish opponents or reward allies.
I would use it to lock in human rights so tightly that no future leader could unravel them.
The Premise, One Day of Absolute Leverage
Imagine waking up with the authority of the current president whose influence dominates courts, legislatures, party platforms, and international negotiations like no other leader before him. Well, maybe there was the one. But this man cannot even string together a sentence that would be above the understanding of a kid aged ten. Imagine having the political capital, loyalist infrastructure, and media gravity to push through structural change in record time.
I would treat that day like an emergency constitutional summit.
Not performative, or publicly.
Just permanent.
The goal would be simple, but radical, universal, non revocable human rights. These protections would be written into constitutional and international frameworks in ways that cannot be undone by a simple majority vote, executive order reversal, or partisan court shift.
Not One Man Should Have All That Power
What I Would Do With That Power?
1. Codify Non Revocable Civil Protections
I would first demand for constitutional amendments and binding international agreements that explicitly protect people from discrimination based on:
Race, Gender identity, biological sex, Sexual orientation, Gender, Disability, mental health status, Immigration status, Socioeconomic background, and anything else a person simply cannot change.
I would design them with enforcement like a lions teeth . A review with new board members voted on every four-years, strict punishments for those who commit human rights violations, database of all offenders, and a strict set of guidelines providing all individuals with in the law human rights.
There will be no loopholes disguised as “religious exemptions.” Your religion will not save you from this.
No state level carve outs.
Do not count on quiet rollbacks five years later.
2. Make International Human Rights, Not Optional
Human rights should not depend on which side of a border you are born on.
I would use diplomatic leverage to enforce a strengthened global rights act. That builds upon frameworks like the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but with enforcement tied to trade agreements, anti-human trafficking laws, cultural respect practices, and international funding.
If you discriminate, you lose access.
If you suppress liberties, you lose standing.
Economic incentive can be more powerful than moral speeches.
3. Remove the Easy Undo Button, or Get Lit of Jail Free Card For Unlawful Leaders and their Shady Friends.
The flaw in most reforms is fragility. A new administration arrives and dismantles everything. So what makes them know we don’t play games. First I structure reforms to require supermajority global consensus to repeal, Muti branch ratification, no two party system, every group gets a voice, and swift-justice for the government leaders of before.
Build it like digital encryption.
Layered.
Redundant.
4. Protect Bodily Autonomy and Personal Liberty
No one should have their body regulated based on someone else’s religious or political beliefs. I would embed protections that prevent governments from controlling medical decisions, identity documentation, marriage equality, or reproductive autonomy.
Your body and how you use it should not have shot to do with what anyone else has to say.
Why Choose POTUS Specifically
Some will ask, why choose someone so vile and outside the realm of the usual political people?
To them I say “Power is most transformative when we require help with redirection.”
If someone who was widely perceived as authoritarian used their authority to permanently expand freedom, rather than restrict it, it would fracture the narrative that dominance must equal oppression.
A reversal written where they expect refusal.
The defining moment in history where power was used not to entrench control. For once not only attempting to dissolve it.
The Irony and the Hope
There is irony in imagining Donald J. Trump as the vessel for universal liberty. That tension is almost the entire point.
The most radical act is doesn’t have to be replacing power.
It is rewriting who how the power is used.
If I could be anyone for a day, I would not seek applause. I would seek permanence.
I wouldn’t accept a temporary win.
Structural mercy.
We all know one day is not enough to fix the world, and that Rome also wasn’t built in a day. However, have you ever consider what you could do if for 24 hours unprecedented power belonged to you? Just one day with enough leverage to lay a foundation that no single or combination of administrations could tear apart.
If I could step into a position of immense authority, I would use it to make discrimination structurally impossible, liberty structurally permanent, and dignity structurally protected.
Forever and ever.
Amen.
