On Saturday, various US media houses projected that Democrat Joe Biden has won the 2020 elections, and at that time, the incumbent Republican Donald Trump, who lost his re-election bid, was playing golf. 

Will Trump, who loves constant limelight, pursue a traditional post-White House life, of public reticence, reflective memoir-writing, and occasional charitable events?

Some of the Trump allies have said that he will run in the presidential race in 2024. 

In US history, only one other president, Grover Cleveland, has served non-consecutive terms, who won the presidential race in 1892 after narrowly losing reelection four years earlier. 

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Even as he trails far behind Biden in electoral votes, Trump has refused to concede and has made claims of widespread election and illegal voting fraud. Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told an Irish thinktank, “I would absolutely expect the president to stay involved in politics and would absolutely put him on the shortlist of people who are likely to run in 2024.”

The President’s children have also made it clear that they are demanding loyalty from Republicans for Trump in 2024. “The total lack of action from virtually all of the ‘2024 GOP hopefuls’ is pretty amazing,” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted on Thursday. 

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Trump, a New York-born hotel developer and a television celebrity who married thrice, has accepted that he longs for some comforts of his pre-White House days. “I had a nice life. I had the greatest life,” Trump said in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in his final campaign rally. His main product to fund that lifestyle has been his own name.

In the 2000s, Trump had rebuilt his public profile as the host of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’, a reality TV series. The Republican might start a “Trump TV” brand as he has increasingly complained about Fox News. 

Viewers “want an alternative now. So do I!” he had tweeted. 

The 74-year-old also has a potential readymade vehicle for the project in cable channels One America News and NewsMax TV, current minnows that a Trump takeover could turn into giants.

However, another scenario is where Trump is embroiled in serious legal problems, as prosecutors in New York are probing his hush-money payment to a porn star, tangled business dealings, and mysterious accounting practices. The Republican, who is protected from prosecution as a president,  is also facing rape and sexual assault allegations. 

Eight Trump associates, including men who served as his campaign managers, lawyer, and national security advisor, have already been indicted or imprisoned for serious crimes, including over the 2016 campaign’s links to Russia.

Or, just maybe, Trump will want to get away from it all.

However implausible this sounds, he has dropped a few hints.

In June at the White House, he mused about taking a road trip in an RV with his wife Melania.

Less romantic but equally heartfelt, he paused mid-speech during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania to admire parked trucks.

“Nice trucks,” the President said. “You think I could hop into one of them and drive it away? I’d love to do it, just drive the hell out of here. Just get the hell out of this.”