Former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza believes that there could be another Donald Trump presidency on the horizon.

But this time, it would be Donald Trump Jr. for the Republican Party in 2028, taking the mantle of MAGA.

“I think the guy has real charisma. I know a lot of people hate him, but he has real charisma and an understanding of what motivates the base that has elected his father. He is also, interestingly, kind of a — unlike his dad, who is a total technophobe — I mean, Donald Trump, you know, uses a phone, I guess, but not really a computer,” the analyst said on his YouTube channel. “Don Jr. is actually very savvy when it comes to the changing media landscape and the way social media has transformed everything.”

“So I just looked these numbers up. He has 13 million followers on X. He has eight million followers on Instagram. His Triggered podcast, which runs on this site called Rumble, which is the conservative alternative to YouTube, is widely listened to and followed,” he said. “And his sensibility on social media is — if I had to make a comparison — it’s kind of like Elon Musk’s. He’s kind of a troll. Don Jr. likes to troll liberals. That’s what he does really, really well. And you know who loves that? The MAGA base.”

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He mentioned Vice President-elect JD Vance but said that the president-elect’s son was the more probable successor.

“We’re talking about the Trumps here, right? So I don’t know that we can draw that conclusion yet. I have heard —I  have seen reported — I’ve heard anecdotally that Don Jr. is interested in running for office. Don Jr. likes campaigning,” the analyst said. “He likes getting out there. He likes mixing it up. We also know that if Donald Trump the elder is loyal to anyone — and that’s questionable — but if he’s loyal to anyone, it’s his family, right?”

“I think if Donald Sr. is interested in sort of handing off the political movement he built, with the likeliest chance of that movement being transferable to someone, he’s likely to turn, I think, to his eldest son, who has kind of shown a knack for this stuff, whose star is rising, absolutely,” Cillizza continued. “From J.D. Vance onward to the transition, Don Jr.’s influence is greater today than it has been, I think, at any point in the past in his father’s political career.”

“Look, I just think there will be an attempt at some point to hand off Trumpism, and Donald Trump will want to be in control of that handoff,” he said. “And the fact that his eldest son is standing right there, is someone who has shown that he gets the MAGA base in a way very few Republicans do, who has shown that he, in his own right, is extremely popular online, who gets the kind of social media trolling that goes hand in hand with being a Trump supporter, that he is related by blood to Donald Trump — these are all things that I think you cannot rule out Don Jr. of running in 2028.”