The 2024 election happens, and Trump wins, and as he is standing at the podium planning how to extort the most money this time around, a nuclear bomb drops on his head and takes out the entire city. What happens next?
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At least one person in the chain of succession will be elsewhere, by design, in case a disaster strikes. This person will be sworn in.
Meanwhile, or after, I presume NATO would retailiate, and a lot of Chinese people would die. Then it could escalate, and maybe drag in other nations, leading to armageddon.
Then about 40 years later Zepram Cochrane launches his warp ship and the Vulcans land and we found the Federation.