A/N: Written for the /r/NarutoFanfiction writing prompt challenge #18 (you can see the other entries at redd dot it slash 52q0uz). "Danzo goes full Trump in Konoha."
I'm British, not American, so I have a different perspective to anyone actually voting in the US elections.
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"I'm telling you, we need to make Konoha great again." Danzo's voice echoed from the ANBU escort taking the deranged man to the cells. "I don't know what's wrong with you people, but I'm a successful businessman and a law-abiding citizen. You can't arrest me!"
Hiruzen sighed. "Is he still sticking to his story? That he just woke up here in Danzo's body, but he's actually from a foreign country?"
Koharu nodded, eyes cold. "Whatever he's playing at, it's too dangerous. We can't risk any instability right now. Lock him up until he comes to his senses, I say."
"That sounds reasonable," Homura agreed. "Maybe the stress just got to him."
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Danzo pressed up against the bars of his prison cell. "Listen to me! You have to listen to me! We need to build a wall!"
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The ANBU mess hall was unusually busy. A group in one corner were quietly discussing something, drawing more and more people into their conversation over time. "He says that all the experts agree with him. You need to listen to him talk, he says it better than I do. We'll go back to the good old days, when Konoha was the strongest village!"
"Isn't it still the strongest village?"
"Yeah, but back then it was better."
"But we live longer now, and we have to take fewer dangerous missions, and the medical care is better, and we have more money and a better lifestyle."
"That's not the point, though. Just come and listen to him, you'll see reason."
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Danzo faced the crowd of featureless masks. "We're losing. We're losing to Kumo, to Iwa, hell, we're even losing to Kiri. We have to fix this. We can fix this."
"How?" one of the ANBU asked him.
"You listen to me, and I'll tell you. We need to fix this and to do that we need a plan – we need the best plan. And we have the best plan. Ask anyone, they'll tell you – I make the best plans. My plans are the best, and I have one that will fix this."
Approving nods filled the room.
"And we'll build a wall to keep out Suna. Suna isn't all bad, of course – I never said they were all bad, because they're not. But the good Suna ninja aren't coming here. The good Suna ninja are happy in Suna. They're sending the bad Suna ninja, because the good ones don't want to leave – and why would they? They're happy there. They're sending the thieves, the murderers, the rapists – and some, I assume, are decent."
More nods.
"And here's the best part – the best part, I tell you. It's the very best part, and everyone agrees with me, you just ask them and they'll tell you – Danzo has great plans, but the best part is – well I'll tell you the best part. We'll make Suna pay for it. My friend Tobirama – you know Tobirama, the second Hokage – he said to me, and he'll tell anyone, you just ask him and he'll say the same thing he said to me, that Suna will pay for a wall."
Scattered applause.
"I mean, we have all the cards. I'm telling you – and you know it – that we have the advantage. We have a Biju – we have the best Biju. It's true! Don't let anyone tell you it's not true. We have the best Biju, and what's the point of a Biju if you don't use it?"
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Three months later Hiruzen sat staring at the hordes of rioters in the streets, and the massive Doton wall blocking the way to Suna. "Fuck all this," he said, and burned Konoha to the ground.
