The reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris also marked the de facto coming out of Donald Trump as leader of the free world.

His overbearing handshake with French President Emmanuel Macron sent a powerful message to the rest of the world. America is back, whether they like it or not.

As Trump is feted by world leaders and royalty in Paris, holds preliminary peace talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and sends his envoy to the Middle East, the inauguration next month seems like a mere formality.

Joe Biden is a pitiful afterthought in history. The ostentatiously Catholic president was somehow too busy to fit Notre-Dame into his sluggish schedule and sent his wife instead, who made googly eyes at Trump.

Joe is PINO — President in Name Only — short for Pinocchio, appropriately enough, given his penchant for lying.

Trump, on the other hand, is at peak triumph before he even officially takes back the presidency.

Mar-a-Lago — his private club in Palm Beach that was raided just two years ago by FBI agents, who rummaged through his wife Melania’s underwear drawer — has become the center of the universe.

World leaders, movie stars and billionaires are flocking to the “Winter White House” to find favor with Trump, who presides genially at a table in the center of the balmy terrace overlooking the palm-fringed Intracoastal Waterway or takes meetings in the sumptuous wood-paneled library.

Exquisitely dressed women glide around through the golden light that presages the golden era that Trump has promised........

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