Donald Trump isn't actually running for President.

[DetlefK]

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/28/donald_trump_is_a_coward_why_the_rich_luxurious_poseur_has_never_had_the_guts_to_really_run_for_president_partner/

The reasoning is simple:

- If he loses in the primaries, he's a loser.

- If he wins the primaries but loses the election, he's not only a loser but the guy whose megalomania cost the GOP a national election.

- If he wins the election, he will have to work in a partisan environment with people he can't push and bully, with people who don't care that he's a billionaire, with people who don't care about his bluster and grandstanding. And he would have to get something done while being held responsible for whatever outcome for the rest of his life.



Trump will find an excuse to leave the race before the voters themselves get to judge him. (He's the greatest guy in the world! He judges others! Nobody gets to judge HIM!)

[LakeVermilion]

1. +1

[Gothmog]

2. I doubt that Trump will voluntarily drop out

[watoos]

4. Someone will make Trump an offer he can't refuse

Just like they made Perot drop out, but when they found out that more Clinton voters were voting for Perot, the shadow government had Perot get back in the race.
Trump will drop out of the race and he will give a stupid reason just like Perot did, because they can't tell the real reason they dropped out.

[Orrex]

8. Probably our lizard person overlords

[DetlefK]

10. It was the lizard-people in the GOP! A vote for the GOP is a vote for the lizard-people!

[Dr Hobbitstein]

16. .

[daleanime]

3. That would require some......

thought on trumps part.


And that's probably just as possible as him winning the election.

[mainstreetonce]

5. If he can get nominated

He will stay in and claim election fraud when he loses.

[Fast Walker 52]

13. he will mount an investigation to find proof of vote rigging

and then never come up with anything...

[jaxind]

6. McCain

I kind of thought the same thing. When he said he doesn't like McCain anymore because he lost the election, and he doesn't like losers, I thought...well, how are you going to feel about yourself when you lose the election? Will you be able to face the public, or anyone else for that matter?

[Betty Karlson]

11. I expect cognitive dissonance will kick in at that time.

All bullies have it.

[tblue37]

24. He thinks he iss widely adored. He cannot imagine not winning. Now that he

can't use his run as publicity for his brand or for ratings for his show or his beauty pageant, there is no reason to drop out, since he believes he can't lose, and his soaring popularity among the RW base creates a bubble by reinforcing that belief. He is high on the RW adulation.

[madokie]

7. I think you are on to something

His ego could not stand a hit like being seen as a loser. Remember at the correspondence dinner when Obama laid him to shame and how red his face was getting

[3catwoman3]

15. It would have been fun...

...to be able to monitor his blood pressure readings during that dinner -

[heaven05]

19. I laughed heartily

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at dt's discomfort. And I was so happy a POC did it to him and this trump POS couldn't say a word.

[Nitram]

9. Trump is running to build his brand and get free publicity.

All publicity is good publicity for the Trumps of the world.

[Le Taz Hot]

12. I've been saying from the beginning

that this is not, nor ever has been, a real candidacy. This is Trump promoting Trump.

[radiclib]

14. He already has his exit strategy

His plan is to anoint the nominee, likely Ted Cruz. Ted is the only one who has consistently kissed up to him. Most of the others have disqualified themselves by saying mean things about the Donald. Trump will have some fanciful reason for dropping out and will bequeath his supporters to his chosen buttboy.
He wants to be the kingmaker. It is a gigantic ego trip. He wants no part of the presidency.

[valerief]

17. Who says a dictator has to work in a partisan environment? You see our Congress and the

Administration working in a partisan manner? Noooope.

Trump would be king. Nothing would still get done, except EVERYTHING to help billionaires get more of their fix.

[Thespian2]

18. If this squalid excuse for a human being

actually won (not happening), he would take more vacation days than Raygun and W combined...he might visit the WH occasionally...but he has no desire to govern anything...

[ecstatic]

20. It might be different this time. He's 69/70 yrs old,

and he's number one in many polls. While he probably was just goofing off on the beginning, it's probably hitting him now that he might actually have a once in a lifetime shot at the presidency. He's probably reflecting on his life and figures this is a great way to cement his legacy. Not to mention, he's been fired or dropped from all his other jobs/ revenue streams. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

[Hiraeth]

21. He is an egotistical, narcissitic sociopath with bad hair.

[phantom power]

22. "He isn’t acting like a man who wants to win a presidential election" -- in what way?

Compared to whom? This is the modern Republican base Trump is sucking up to, and currently he's doing it better than any of his 16 opponents.

[tavalon]

23. shhhh. We know that but this is fun

Let's let him play it out. He's way better comedy than Palin was and I never thought anyone could top her.

[d_legendary1]

25. He's doing this for shits and giggles

and to make a few bucks here and there.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Of course Trump doesn't want to be a "loser," but

he can avoid that label by dropping out of contention for the GOP nomination and running as a third-party candidate. Of course he knows third-party candidates can't win, but he also knows they can be spoilers. He can suck up enough teabagger and nativist votes to hand the election to the Democrats, and then he can sit back and say to the GOPers, "See, you should have nominated ME!" He will also get more publicity than ever. It's a total win for him.

[leveymg]

27. He's a performance artist. He'll claim he's the Dalai Lama next if it gets him an audience.

The reason he polls so highly among GOP voters is because they're bored by the straight pols. This is their way of messaging their party that they hate the status quo.

[Orsino]

28. Never has, never will. Presidenting involves work.

He'll invent an excuse to quit, and quit.

[0rganism]

29. he's the political equivalent of a barrage balloon

he's just in the republican primary to give cover to their "mainstream" candidates while still riling up the base
every time he denounces the stupid shit Trump says, Jeb gets more electable in the general

[Iggo]

30. No shit.