“I’VE LEFT INSTRUCTIONS.” Trump can’t stop talking about what happens after he dies!

BREAKING: “I’VE LEFT INSTRUCTIONS.” Trump can’t stop talking about what happens after he dies!

Donald Trump has always liked to present himself as larger than life. Last night, though, he seemed totally preoccupied with something else entirely: what happens after he’s gone.

The 80-year-old president capped off a late-night Truth Social rant by announcing that he has already arranged for military retaliation if Iran succeeds in assassinating him.

Trump declared that “1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded” and said standing orders are already in place for the United States to unleash overwhelming force on Iran should he be killed.

The conversation quickly moved beyond Iran and into something far stranger: Trump’s instructions for a world without Donald Trump in it.

“I’ve left instructions,” he told the New York Post.  “if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before.”

The comments are remarkable not because Trump threatened Iran. Presidents threaten hostile foreign governments all the time. What’s unusual is how often Trump has recently returned to the subject of his own mortality.

In recent months he has publicly wondered whether he’ll make it into Heaven. He has repeatedly discussed assassination threats against him. During last week’s NATO summit, he volunteered that he is “No. 1 on the kill list for Iran.”

Now he is openly discussing the military plans he wants carried out after he’s dead.

All this paints a picture of a president spending an extraordinary amount of time contemplating his own absence.

The timing is especially striking because it may also help explain one of the stranger episodes from Trump’s recent foreign trip. After insisting for months that his new Qatari jet represented the future of presidential travel.

Trump abruptly switched back to the older Air Force One for part of the journey home. The official explanations never entirely made sense. Then Trump himself started talking about Iranian assassination plots, security concerns and his place at the top of Tehran’s enemies list.

Suddenly the switch looked less mysterious. Whether the threat from Iran is real, exaggerated or somewhere in between, Trump’s public comments reveal something that is very real: he is thinking about death. A lot.

Most presidents spend their time talking about the future of the country. Trump spent this week talking about the future without him in it.

And for a man who has built his entire political identity around the idea that only he can save America, that’s a surprisingly revealing thing to hear.