'Five words: Solid Gold Air Force One'
Donald Trump all but promises he'll be running for president. Because
the nation deserves it.
Trump says he’ll make his formal announcement on June 16. “I think a lot of people are going to be very happy” with the decision, Trump told The News & Observer before a sold-out speech Saturday night. “They’re tired of watching America go down. ... It’s about making America great again. I can do it, and nobody else can do it.”
He made a point of using the phrase “if I run” in his speech but voiced frustration with a disclaimer: “June 16, will you come, please, fast – I’m so tired of saying that.”
In addition to having a super-secret plan to defeat ISIS and the perfectly justified but still rude opinion that his prospective opponents are all "clowns," he's also touting his top-notch military experience.
Trump wasn’t modest about his credentials. “I would be the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” he said. “I would be strongest by far on security, because I’m very big into the military, very big into the vets.”
For the record, I believe Donald Trump is lying. I suspect he will back out at the very last minute, citing
reasons, to go back and pretend to be an important person on television. Running for president is not very fun, and getting your behind handed to you in the early primary states is even less fun.
But who knows? We may get lucky; he may be that narcissistic and delusional, and the Republican debate stage could be cluttered up by a podium chock full o' Trump, blasting his opponents as clowns and not letting any of the other supposedly serious candidates get a word in edgewise. That would mark the first Donald Trump appearance on television that I would actually watch.