# What kind of future president would it take to make Trump look good?

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**Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-future-president-would-it-take-to-make-trump-look-good/921026/11 "2020-09-20T07:49:40Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Somebody as immoral as Trump but without his incompetence, laziness, and ignorance.

This might be Yoshihide Suga, new PM of Japan, perhaps. See this post I made in this forum a few days ago:

> [@Yoshihide Suga: New PM of Japan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoshihide-suga-new-pm-of-japan/920620):
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> I don’t typically follow all the political news in Japan; however I came across this article today about Yoshihide Suga, the new Prime Minister of Japan. So I figured I should read it and be at least minimally aware of the political goings-on there. [Japan’s Ruthless New PM Is a Control Freak Who Muzzled the Press](https://news.yahoo.com/japan-ruthless-pm-control-freak-174849950.html), Jake Adelstein, The Daily Beast as republished at Yahoo News, Sept. 14, 2020. This article is highly critical of Suga (and Abe too), describing them (and especially Suga) as a ruthl…

. . . ess control-freak, mired in corruption and scandal, with ties to yakuza, squelching the press and any reporters who ask too many questions, and likewise any bureaucrats who don’t toe his line. Also squelched a rape accusation against one of his buddies.

Sounds to me a lot like the hypothetical “next Trump only competent” that we’ve worried about in other threads here.

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