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Obama’s Former Chief of Staff Already Eyeing 2028 Presidential Run

Rahm Emanuel, who was most recently the U.S. ambassador to Japan, has his eyes set on the White House.

The 2028 general election is still 1,336 days away, but that has not stopped Rahm Emanuel from reportedly plotting a White House run. The former Chicago mayor, who was also Barack Obama’s first chief of staff and a Democratic congressman for six years, told Politico he is gearing up to replace President Donald Trump once he is termed out. Emanuel, 65, was most recently the U.S. ambassador to Japan during Joe Biden’s presidency, and he has been on a media tour since returning stateside. That has included him penning a column in

The Washington Post that urged Ukraine not to strike a mineral deal, taking a gig as a political commentator at CNN where he has since slammed Trump for making America “predatory” in its foreign policy, and appearing on Bill Maher’s show to criticize his party for prioritizing social issues while the country’s education shortcomings take a backseat. “In seventh grade, if I had known I could’ve said the word ‘they’ and gotten in the girls’ bathroom, I would’ve done it,” he told Maher. “We literally are a superpower, we’re facing off against China with 1.4 billion people, and two-thirds of our children can’t read eighth grade level.”