DURING a meeting with Xi Jinping in 2018, Donald Trump stated that there had been efforts to change the United States constitution, which currently upholds a two-term limit on the presidency. This was written in Gideon Rachman’s book, The Age of the Strong-Man: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World (2022).

For Rachman, Trump’s lies unveil his autocratic desire to rule the United States as Xi does in Chi