This tweet showed up on my Facebook news feed a little while ago. It speaks to a prank that someone believes President Obama should pull on his successor, Donald J. Trump.

It cracks me up. It’s damn funny. The prospect of someone putting something like this over on Mr. Insult/Innuendo/Showman/Reality TV Celebrity strikes me as seriously hilarious.

It won’t happen. You see, the current — for the next four days — president of the United States is far too classy, too gracious, too mindful of political consequence to even consider anything so sophomoric.

The president has pledged a smooth transition with Trump’s team. The two men — Obama and Trump — disagree on virtually every single policy issue one can imagine. The president clearly is dismayed that his candidate, Hillary Clinton, lost the presidential election to someone who’d never before sought a public office of any kind, at any level.

I don’t for a minute doubt that Barack Obama has been faithful to his pledge to seek a smooth transition. My concern, though, rests with the Trump team’s willingness to ask the right questions, seek the correct counsel, dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s required to understand all the nitty-gritty of running a government.

This all speaks to the absolute abandoning of tradition that Trump has demonstrated from the very moment he declared his presidential candidacy.

President Obama, though, believes in tradition and has committed to ensuring a smooth hand-off at noon Friday.

There’s something, though, sinisterly tempting about the notion of the president quitting his office on Thursday just to mess things up for the merchandising geniuses peddling Trump’s presidency.