Why any President, even an Anti-American one, would invite this is beyond me. His power would be diminished, and he'd be caught in the storm. Of course, a cynic might say that a major CBW or nuclear terrorist strike would provide a good excuse for emergency temporary suspension of elections, but that wouldn't go smoothly at all.
Your are correct. I suppose the same twisted logic that prompts him to bow to any foreign dictator or potentate is also at play here.