I suppose anything can happen, but it’s more likely that Ciara would leave Russell Wilson for Donald Trump than it is for America to elect Rahm Emanuel as the country’s next president in four years.

Or at the very least, about as likely as Black folks voting for him, with his baggage, in high enough numbers to get him past any Democratic presidential primary.

Still, that has not stopped the former ambassador to Japan during the Biden administration from teasing a potential bid in 2028 — and because the veteran politician is so well-connected, he has managed to tease many on some of the largest platforms.

So much teasing that he was told he sounded “presidential” during a recent appearance on ABC’s “The View.”

In response, Emanuel said that he was “in training.”

“I don’t know if I’ll make the Olympics,” Emanuel added.

(Spoiler: He won’t.)

Separately, in another profile about him potentially running for president, Emanuel claimed: “Before I make a decision, I want to know that I have an answer to what I think ails our country, ails our politics, and ails the party—and they may all be the same answer. I’m not done with public service. I’m hoping it’s not done with me.”

In that same piece by The Free Press, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked whether she thinks Emanuel would make a White House bid.

“I think so,” Pelosi responded.

A shame she didn’t add a choking noise after commenting.

Some, like former Congressman Steve Israel, who worked with Emanuel during their shared time at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, have argued that the former Chicago mayor has “world-class experience” and that Democrats “need a candidate who can formulate a proactive agenda. We can’t be limited to, ‘I’m not Trump.’”

Israel told The Hill late last month that Pelosi and Emanuel “figured out the strategy that won red districts and got the base out in blue and purple districts at the same time.”

What they achieved happened a long time ago, and as history has shown, Emanuel has a hand in many of the worst decisions Democrats have made in recent decades – the sort that gave way to the political ascension of Donald Trump.

This would include Emanuel, who served as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton, helping pass the North American Free Trade Agreement and the 1994 crime bill that expanded mass incarceration.

When he was chief of staff under President Barack Obama, Emanuel reportedly “begged” the president not to pursue the Affordable Care Act, a health care bill already made in the image of Mitt Romney’s plan in Massachusetts and the Heritage Foundation’s old health plan from the 1990s.

Most infuriously, there is Emanuel’s time as mayor of Chicago, where he tried to cover up the police murder of Laquan McDonald.

It was an act so immoral that writer and legal analyst Chris Geidner called  the move “one of the more soulless moves by a Democratic politician in recent memory.”

When Emanuel wasn’t helping cover up murders of Black teens as Chicago mayor, he reportedly favored businessmen, including Republicans, over community leaders.

And then he closed 50 schools in Chicago— which, more than 10 years later, has left lasting damage to the communities impacted by those closures.

Emanuel apologizes for none of this yet now wants to lecture others —blasting the current Democratic platform as “toxic” and “weak and woke.”

As he sees it, Democrats need to get back to basics as opposed to engaging in cultural debates.

“I’m empathetic and sympathetic to a child trying to figure out their pronoun, but it doesn’t trump the fact that the rest of the class doesn’t know what a pronoun is,” Emanuel explained on “The View.”

He, in fact, is not empathetic. Emanuel, like a ghoul, is suggesting we sacrifice the humanity of a harmless child to score cheap political points. It is not only cowardly but pointless as the right has proven time and time again, no matter how many times you try and pacify their preferences, it’ll never be enough.

And for what it’s worth, Democrats don’t bring up trans people, Republicans do on their platforms.

There are ways to combat this, but they don’t include anything coming from Rahm Emanuel, the person who closed more than 50 of the places where they teach children about pronouns.

Democrats don’t need a 65-year-old man that used to work as an investment banker before going into politics to help further enrich himself and his friends while standing in the way of things like the murder of a young Black child and expanding Americans’ access to health care telling us what will or won’t work in the future.

I know we all still fancy Barack Obama, his playlists, and all that, but the underlying tension of his tenure as president was that he initially campaigned as a change agent but governed like a typical Democrat thanks to affiliating with the likes of pols like Rahm Emanuel.

Emanuel covering up the murder of Laquan McDonald alone makes him an unserious presidential contender,  but because he’s white and well-connected, he gets a huge publicity campaign.

Meanwhile, Black politicians in the South and elsewhere get ignored in the media in markets where they have much stronger chances of winning than Rahm, with real platforming and the financial benefits that come from it.

It is not lost on me that even if Rahm Emanuel doesn’t run for president, he may look at a bid for Senate or governor in the state of Illinois, so this media attention will be put to use in some fashion.

Given what he’s done in his political life, I’d rather see him in retirement or one of the circles of hell than any government office, but if he actually does run for president, I hope his campaign yields him the humiliating political end of his career that he deserves.

Michael Arceneaux is a New York Times bestselling author whose most recent book, “I Finally Bought Some Jordans,” was published last March.

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