This may have added to Trumps resolve but these aholes think waaaay too much of themselves if they think it was this one little pathetic joke.
Trump saw America going down the shi&&er and, by the grace of God, won in 2016 to fix it. It’s that simple. Nobody else could have beaten Hillary. It HAD to be a non politician.
My theory is that DJT spoke about this possibility in front of Ivanka, who mentioned it in passing to her then BFF, Chelsea, who mentioned it to her mother, HRC, who saw DJT as strong enough to devour the R competition, but would be easy to beat in 2016 with her DNC+ machinery.