I know I have all but abandoned this blog. Who has the time these days? The recent news of Donald Trump throwing his hat in the ring for the Republican nomination for United States President is too hysterical not to comment on. Below is just all my speculation and opinion.
As other people have speculated, I believe that Trump is not making a serious bid for the White House and if Hillary Clinton, for whatever reason, does not get the Democratic nomination, Donald Trump will withdraw from the race altogether.
Have you noticed Donald Trump has been way ahead in polls for the Republican primary? He has really been telling the middle class what they want to hear. Close the borders, cut taxes on the Middle Class and raise taxes on the wealthy. This is not what wealthy Republicans want to hear, they want to keep the borders wide open to flood the United States with cheap labor, they want the shrinking Middle Class to pay for everything with through their taxes, and they want their own taxes reduced to nothing. It doesn't look like Trump will be getting any donations from the wealthy ultra-conservatives. but he doesn't care because he has plenty of his own money. And if he doesn't get the nomination, he has then threatened to run as third party candidate. I think here is where things get interesting.
Mr. Trump is a little too crass and blunt for the Republican party style and he knows it. At some point either top GOP officials will tell him to take a hike, or perhaps at some point he will pretend to get fed up dealing with the GOP and then run as a third party candidate.
Here Mr. Trump is acting like H. Ross Perot did for Bill Clinton. In 1992, Perot ran as a Third Party candidate and pretty much divided the Republican vote which helped Clinton to win. I do not believe Perot was in cahoots with the Clintons, I think he at least made a sincere bid for the White House. For the 1996 campaign, seeing Perot as a spoiler for the Republican party, the corporate controlled media helped squash Perot's second attempt by not selling him any airtime on their networks and helping with a smear campaign.
The Clintons so desperately want to be back in the White House again and I am not sure why, but I feel that it is most likely that hey are in cahoots with Trump. I could be wrong and Trump is really making a sincere bid for the White House, I have to say he does tell the American public what they want to hear. And he did have his own TV show for a while which may have added to his appeal. Well if my speculations are wrong, America better get ready to change its name to "The United States of Trump."
On a side note, I recently read a book about narcissism and Trump and Charlie Sheen were given as two celebrity examples, oh boy.
