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Trump Lets Slip His Pick for Next President in Bizarre Exchange

The Daily Beast

June 19, 2026

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Trump Lets Slip His Pick for Next President in Bizarre Exchange

Ken Cedeno/REUTERSPresident Donald Trump may have dropped his biggest clue yet about who he intends to back for president in 2028. The 80-year-old president has long floated both Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as possible MAGA heirs, while refusing to publicly pick a favorite.But he clearly has an idea of who might inherit his gilded Oval Office, according to Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, the forthcoming book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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