Hmm, does it count if you only fool people for a few years?
"You've all been selected for this mission because you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster and Daniel Day-Lewis! Welcome to Operation MindFuck!"
They all go the way of Ceaser eventually, replaced for the national interest. good of the party/ country, blah blah blah... to be replaced by another.
it would be sooooo much more interesting if they practiced changes of power like the Klingons do