Does Donald Trump still want to be president?
By John Moody–Executive Vice President, Executive Editor for Fox News.
I always had a feeling that Trump never wanted to be president. What he wanted was for the GOP to kick him out. Then he could start another populist career being a political commentator. It is, after all, much easier to criticize the president than it is to be the president. By having the GOP establishment kick him out of the race, he would then be free to criticize both the DNC and the RNC. That's money in the bank for Trump. "If they had not kicked me out, I could have turned this country around!" It is what Trump does best, garner publicity and criticize. I think he found his true medium not in real estate but in reality TV.
During his campaign, I really thought that he was making all these outrageous comments in order to be not selected. I imagine that he was surprised that every time he said something stupid, his numbers went up! After a while, what could he do? He really could not quit his campaign as that would not look good for him. Until the election, even he did not think he had much of a chance, hence his peremptory comments about the election. He was setting the stage. He wanted to lose so he could criticize the election system.
But now that he is president, he can paint an picture of "everyone is against me" and "I am the most attacked president in the history that I don't know". now he can, with his ego intact, resign "Listen, I tried to help the country but the congress, GOP, media, Disney, McDonalds, ect were all against me. There is really nothing I could do. The system is broken and it is everyone else's fault but mine". Thereby setting himself up for a bigly career as a political commentator. "Well if only congress let me handle things, I would have fixed xxx" without actually having any accountability for doing anything.
I would not be surprised if he resigned during his term and I would be surprised if he ran for re-election.
He does not want the job of being president, he wants a job where he can criticize the president.. and the political parties without being held accountable.