Barack Obama had
Secret Service protection in 2007, so Donald Trump thinks he deserves it in 2015.
“I want to put them on notice because they should have a liability,” he said. “Personally, I think if Obama were doing as well as me he would’ve had Secret Service [earlier]. I have by far the biggest crowds.”
And as we know, the American record of billionaire blowhards being assassinated is on par with the American record of historic black political figures being assassinated, so it's a no-brainer that the Secret Service should be on it.
Trump jokingly suggested that his lack of Secret Service protection is partisan, but it seems like there's another explanation:
“Of course I don’t think they’d want anything to happen. But I would think they should be very proactive and want protection for somebody like me that has 20,000 people at any time,” Trump said. “You would think that they would want to be very proactive, but we have not heard from them.”
A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said it had not received an official request for protection.
Oh, so Trump wants the Secret Service to
volunteer, like he's too damn important—those big crowds he's drawing!—to go through the request process.