Donald J.
Trump, the garrulous real estate developer whose name has adorned
apartment buildings, hotels, Trump-brand neckties and Trump-brand
steaks, announced on Tuesday his entry into the 2016 presidential race,
brandishing his wealth and fame as chief qualifications in an improbable
quest for the Republican nomination.
Mr. Trump declared his
candidacy in the atrium of Trump Tower, the luxury skyscraper on Fifth
Avenue in New York City, proclaiming that only someone “really rich” –
like himself – could restore American economic primacy.
“We
need somebody that can take the brand of the United States and make it
great again,” said Mr. Trump, repeatedly assailing China and Mexico as
economic competitors, and pledging to be “the greatest jobs president
that God ever created.”
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Mr. Trump, 69, has long toyed with running for president, boasting of
his credentials as an entrepreneur and mocking the accomplishments
of prominent elected officials. He has used the platform of a reality
television show, NBC’s “The Apprentice,” to burnish his pop-culture
image as a formidable man of affairs.
Mr. Trump, who has never
held elected office, may not be so easily confined to the margins of the
2016 campaign. Thanks to his enormous media profile, he stands a good
chance of qualifying for nationally televised debates, where his
appetite for combat and skill at playing to the gallery could make him a
powerfully disruptive presence.
In the past, Mr. Trump’s
presidential posturing has seldom been taken seriously, and for good
reason: Ahead of the 2000 and 2012 elections, Mr. Trump twice hyped up
the possibility of seeking the White House before abandoning the idea.
Mr. Trump’s remarks in Midtown Manhattan are unlikely to allay
suspicions that he is entering the race mainly to appear in debates and
win attention to the media. He bragged extensively about the golf
resorts he owns (“I have the best courses in the world”) and a hotel he
is developing in Washington.
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Endy Edeson
@jesse:
i think the chances of this man being president of America are very
"SLIM" even with his money, in politics, anything can happen. Do you see
him winning JEB BUSH?
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Jesse Osayande Vucinic Ehiagwina
His chances are just as the one I have of mbecoming the US president and that's ZERO. Bush or Romney will take it.
Endy Edeson
@OKEY: my own view: i prefer him to THE BUSH.PEOPLE. i think this time, it's for real and there can be BIG change in America,
Jesse Osayande Vucinic Ehiagwina
Wrong. The USA will not see change. That country belongs to the corporations and Zionists.