Donald Trump Jokes He'll Stay President 'Forever' in New Video Endorsing His 2020 Campaign

President Donald Trump is wrapping up the first week of his official re-election campaign by trolling his Twitter followers with a joke that he’ll stay in office long after the constitutional maximum of two terms.

On Friday, Trump, 73, shared a video meme to his personal Twitter account, based on the October 22, 2018 cover of TIME Magazine, suggesting that he would be president “forever.”

In the animation clip, set to the tune of Edvard Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King”, Trump’s future campaign signs are all featured, beginning at the year 2024 until 2048 — just like the cover was designed.

As the video slowly zooms in on each year, however, it temporarily pauses at 2048 in the top left corner, where a GIF of the president has been photoshopped in above the campaign sign.

The years on the sign below Trump then begin to flash before the viewers’ eyes in four-year intervals until it reaches 90,000.

In a final note, Trump included “EEEEEE” — a reference to eternity — before finishing with one last statement about how long he intends on staying in office. “TRUMP 4EVA,” the sign reads. The White House did not immediately reply to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

President Donald Trump | Donald Trump/Twitter
President Donald Trump | Donald Trump/Twitter

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The video comes a few days after the president kicked off his bid for re-election with a rally in Orlando, Florida.

The massive kickoff event on Tuesday, which included an introduction from wife Melania Trump, was a stark reversal of the president’s 2015 announcement that he was entering the race and it was strategically designed with the 2020 election in mind (Florida is a key swing state).

But — in a reaction presaging the challenges for him to win a second term — The Orlando Sentinel announced the same day as the kickoff that it was endorsing anyone but Trump for the presidency. The local newspaper has a history of supporting Republican candidates.

“Enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies,” the paper’s editorial board wrote. A similar hashtag, #anybodybuttrump, cropped up on Twitter.

The president has grappled with weak approval ratings since he took office and has continually redirected his administration’s attention to personal feuds, such as with the late Sen. John McCain, over policy.

Donald J. Trump
Donald J. Trump

While Trump has used executive authority to curb immigration across the country and push for a new status quo on trade, both signature 2016 campaign vows, his efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act were a notorious failure — which Democrats say helped them return to power in last year’s midterm elections.

Inside his 2020 event this week, however, the energy was high. “Good evening Orlando,” Mrs. Trump said to chants of “USA! USA!” from the crowd at the Amway Center before her husband took the stage.

“It has been my honor to serve as first lady of this incredible country for the past two years,” she continued. “I’m excited to do it for six more.”

Saying that she is proud of what the administration has accomplished so far, Mrs. Trump added that the president “truly loves this country and will continue to work on your behalf as long as he can. All of us will.”

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump

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The “USA!” chants picked up again before Trump took the podium and several times throughout his 76-minute speech.

During his speech, Trump addressed Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders‘ exit from the White House, saying, “We’re gonna miss her.”

“By the way, a woman who has been so good so talented, so wonderful and we’re sort of going to be losing, I have a feeling she’s going to be running for a certain gubernatorial position,” Trump said of Sanders, 36, who briefly took the stage and called her job in Trump’s administration the “honor of a lifetime.”

Before outlining several sweeping promises should he be re-elected — including not only a cure for cancer, but the eradication of AIDS, as well as landing American astronauts on Mars — he introduced a new slogan that played on his controversial 2016 campaign message: “Keep America Great” rather than “Make America Great Again.”

He also took shots at Democrats, deriding former Vice President Joe Biden (a chief rival who has been out-polling him) as “Sleepy Joe” and saying that the party was “afflicted with an ideological sickness.”

President Donald J. Trump
President Donald J. Trump

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Elsewhere in the speech, he returned to familiar dark refrains about the state of the country and the capital, positioning himself as his supporters’ crusader.

Trump told supporters that he will continue pursuing immigration reform with a system that “strengthens our country, upholds our values and protects our way of life.”

As recently as Monday, Trump tweeted that ICE will soon begin removing “millions” of people from the United States.

Toward the end of his speech on Tuesday night, he said, “With your help, with your love and your devotion and with your drive, we are going to keep on working, we are going to keep on fighting and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning.”