Remember, in many ways, President of the United States is the worst job in the world.
For the first few months/years, everyone sucks up to you. You are told by your staff you are perfect. Then you realize that they are BSing you, and you begin to doubt everything and everyone around you.
All your most trusted advisers and your Cabinet officials are always pizzing on each other. State is always fighting Defense. EPA and Interior are always at war with Commerce. Treasury/Banking is always at odds with Labor, and everyone hates Justice. CIA and State and Defense are always in a three-sided all out war.
Next, you realize that everyone wants you to do everything, but in ways the Great Unwashed never understand, you are powerless. You can launch nuclear bombers, but you can't stop a terrorist attack. You can make all the speeches you want about jobs, but you can't hire anyone.... at least in the private sector.
You find out that the people you think are your best friends are the ones leaking to the press.... and the press makes up facts to support their view of things. If you are a liberal, you are never liberal enough for the libs. If you are Conservative, if you don't put a statue of John Birch on the WH lawn, you you are not conservative enough.
Every time you say something, the media finds someone who disagrees with you. You could announce that 6+4 = 10, then within 12 hours the president of the International Base Eight Mathematics Foundation would get on the network news disagreeing with you. (BTW, if you didn't get New Math in school, Base Eight is just like Base Ten.... with your thumbs cut off)
You can never just go out for a pizza, you can't prowl the mall with the kids, you can't fart or scratch down there in public without 20 photographers capturing it. Hell, you can't even drive a car on a public street!
Worst of all, you never have the ability to make an individual decision that really helps someone. You never decide what is best. You can only decide what is “less worse.” Every easy decision, or one with winners and losers is made 5 levels below you. You only get to (and have to) make the decisions where everyone gets screwed, and your only decision is who gets screwed less.
Trump is way too smart to get involved with this krep, take the pay cut or put all his assets into the required blind trust.
No, Trump will not seriously run,,,, but will be a huge help in putting the proverbial wooden stake through Obama’s political heart.
“No, Trump will not seriously run,,,, but will be a huge help in putting the proverbial wooden stake through Obama’s political heart.”
Well, whether he runs or not (funny how so many people want that suck job, as you portray it), he is performing an incredible service just outing Obama and his Admin. Fine by me. But I wouldn’t totally count Trump out. There is something to be said for men with larger than life egos or nationalistic feelings who want to go down in the history books as POTUS.