The University is proud to announce the greatest course on leadership ever taught anywhere by anyone. A Masterclass titled Leadership in America will be offered during the fall 2025 semester. The instructor will be Donald J. Trump whose credentials surpass anyone else’s ever, living or dead. As a man’s man who twice was elected president of the United States, a man’s man who was manly enough to reject previous, perfectly idiotic presidential norms, no one better to teach leaders how to get their followers to be servile subjects.
The course will be offered once a week for ten weeks. Students will be required to sit totally still and stay totally silent. They will be expected to focus solely on the oracular instructor, to revere the instructor, and to obey the instructor without question. There will be no homework. However, absence from a single session will automatically result in a failing grade.
No reading is required for the course – not before, not during, not after.
President Trump prefers to hang loose so the syllabus below is approximate. It could change on a dime. Nevertheless, it provides prospective students with a vague hint of what to expect.
Questions about the course, or for that matter about anything else, should be sent to Mr. Stephen Miller. Mr. Miller currently serves as White House Deputy Chief of Staff. He has been President Trump’s abject acolyte since 2016.
Syllabus
Week One: Definition of Leadership
Americans usually define leadership as influence. Mr. Trump will discuss why such a definition is just for suckers. Leadership is all about power. The power to get other people to do what you want them to do by any means necessary.
Week Two: Ideology of Leadership
Americans usually share ideals such as democracy and equality. Mr. Trump will discuss why such ideals are just for suckers. The real ideal is to win – to come out on top – at all costs. Democracy and equality be damned.
Week Three: History of Leadership
Americans usually study American leaders such as George Washington, Thomas Edison, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Mr. Trump will discuss why leaders like these are just for suckers. He will encourage familiarity with global role models such as Ivan the Terrible, Mao Zedong, and Augusto Pinochet.
Week Four: Leadership is a Relationship
Americans usually view leadership as a relationship between leaders and followers. Mr. Trump will discuss why such a view is just for suckers. Leadership is not a relationship. It is only about the leader, about the self. The self is all that matters, ever.
Week Five: Leadership Experience and Expertise
Americans usually think leaders should have relevant experience and expertise. Mr. Trump will discuss why such thinking is just for suckers. To prove his point, he will point to himself. He became president of the United States without a lick of political, governmental, or military experience or expertise.
Week Six – Leadership Ethics
Americans usually prefer their leaders to be ethical. Mr. Trump will discuss why such a preference is just for suckers. He will present himself as an example – a man who was elected to the presidency a second time despite his being a convicted felon and inveterate liar.
Week Seven – Leadership and Diversity
Americans usually believe their leaders should solicit different types of advisors and different sorts of advice. Mr. Trump will discuss why such a view is just for suckers. His own record testifies to the virtues of advisors who are largely white and male – though glamorous women are an occasional exception – and who, above all, are slavishly loyal.
Week Eight – Leadership and Globalism
Americans usually believe in the virtues of the postwar international order that existed for 80 years. Mr. Trump will discuss why such an opinion is just for suckers. No good reason he and Putin shouldn’t be best buds. No good reason to consider Canadians and Europeans our friends. No good reason Greenland is Denmark’s and not the United States’s. No good reason for anything as wasteful and, frankly, namby-pamby, as foreign aid.
Week Nine – Leadership and the Economy
Americans usually believe they should have a semblance of economic safety and security. Mr. Trump will discuss why this belief is just for suckers. Nothing as exciting as having markets gyrate and then tumble. Nothing as bracing as being anxious about Medicaid, Medicare, and social security. And always there’s the reliable titillation of inflation.
Week Ten – Presidential Leadership
Americans usually believe their government is characterized by the separation of powers – by checks and balances. Mr. Trump will discuss why this belief is just for suckers. As his second term in office vividly attests, there are no limits on the American president. All presidents must do to rule by fiat is to invoke their executive powers. What better lesson for leaders? For all leaders? For all leaders anywhere and everywhere, ever?!