Trump Musk: Anything is possible

OPINION:

The leader of the free world is back.

Strolling into the impossibly restored Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, President-elect Donald Trump soaked up every eyeball of attention. World leaders whispered. First ladies blushed. Billionaires pointed. Fashion models swooned.

There he was, risen from the ashes, stronger than ever. In that moment, Mr. Trump looked as inevitable as the stone walls and spires around him reaching for the heavens.

The bad boy former president, mug-shotted felon, assassination survivor and social media smack-talker swanned into the richest ceremony in the world wearing a gold tie, black overcoat and the fearlessness of the most powerful — and most famous — man on the planet.

It took five years and more than $1 billion to restore Notre Dame. Mr. Trump did it on less than half that budget and in a quarter of the time. And he did it all by himself.

A one-man phoenix. 

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Princes, presidents and prime ministers begged for an audience with Mr. Trump. 

Even French President Emmanuel Macron, whose show it really was there in Paris, surrendered to the true king. Mr. Trump crushed him with a handshake as if King Kong were ripping down a tall building or swatting a biplane from the highest perches of the Empire State Building.

Mr. Macron was just happy to get his picture with Mr. Trump and offered him a seat beside his own first lady.

Speaking of first ladies, American first lady Jill Biden was there, too. Her husband is the current president of the United States — on paper, at least. But he was in Angola, asleep.

Two seats away was the closest she could get to Mr. Trump. They chatted amiably, and she looked upon him with the adoring face of someone meeting the person she had just voted for in the last election.

In case anyone worried that Mr. Trump’s rise from the ashes might humble him and suddenly make him conform to the rules of politics, he quickly dashed those concerns.

He took the picture of a glowing Mrs. Biden looking at him amorously and posted it on his Truth Social platform to promote his line of Trump Perfumes and Colognes.

The caption of the picture read: “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist!”

Truly, this world does not deserve Mr. Trump as our leader.

Perhaps an even better caption for that photograph emerged from the eternal, crowdsourced genius of the internet. 

As Mrs. Biden looks at Mr. Trump, with her daughter beaming behind her, Mr. Trump is saying: “So anyway, after my shift at McDonald’s, I bought a garbage truck.”

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Mr. Trump is a one-man show. But that is not to say he doesn’t run with an entourage — his own Rat Pack of billionaires, bad boys, geniuses and iconoclasts.

Conquering Europe with Mr. Trump over the weekend was Elon Musk, who has developed a bromance of visionaries with the leader of the free world.

Mr. Trump could team up with Mr. Musk and offer a new product in his line of perfumes and colognes. 

Trump Musk, it would be called.

With Trump Musk, anything is possible. Never say no. The entire galaxy in a bottle. Spray or eau de parfum.

To sell the new product, they could use another picture from the weekend at Notre Dame: Mr. Trump holding court with a grinning, dorky Mr. Musk. Swooning coyly beside him is Italy’s lovely firecracker prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, blushing and giggling.

Mr. Trump stands before them, pointing as if to say, “You two make a terrific couple.”

Indeed, with Trump Musk, anything is possible. And you can always get a good deal on it.

• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.