Trump Isn’t Running to Get Elected.

Why should I believe a single word coming out of the Mar-a-Lago hot air machine? I can’t and I won’t.

Trump is all pissed off. Trump’s down in the dumps. Trump believes he’s been abandoned by all his friends.

These are story leads produced over the last couple of days by the Fake News. And where do these stories come from? They come from the same PR machine that Trump and his staff have been using for the past six years.

This guy doesn’t spend one second wondering whether what he says is true or false. He wouldn’t know and wouldn’t care about what’s information and what’s misinformation if either type of messaging hit him square in the face.

Trump didn’t go into politics and won’t announce a 2024 run because he has any kind of commitment to public service at all. He announced his candidacy in 2015 because he saw it was another way to make a buck. And if you think I’m being unduly harsh, you can read Trump explaining how much he believed he could earn by running for President right here.

I thought, and I certainly wasn’t alone in this respect, that Trump would ride on the back of a red mid-term ‘wave’ to launch his 2024 campaign. But the more I think about it, I am now convinced that Trump doesn’t really care whether the GOP rallies around him or even whether he can win the…