Trump’s Art of the Deal.
Ask for what you don’t want and settle for what you do want.
If he’s asking to be president he doesn’t want to be president he wants Hillary to be president.
Nobody but a complete idiot would do the type of scorched earth campaign he’s done if he actually intended to win the presidency and not just the nomination.
Trump’s candidacy is an ego trip. He doesn’t really care what happens in the end, he’s just enjoying the attention. It’s made him a bigger celebrity than ever, so even if he loses the nomination or the general, he’ll still be able to go on TV, get a new show and get more attention than ever before.
The dirty secret about his show The Apprentice is that it almost got cancelled. He had to turn it into the Celebrity Apprentice and have celebrities compete instead of real people to keep it going. He is in this to make himself more of a celebrity, so he can have a show again without needing other celebrities coming on to keep it viable.
Bingo we have a winner. This has been the play all along. Make a boorish, bigoted, crude, misogynist, old white guy the face of the republican party. Have him attack every minority group, and women with tacky, borderline obscene comments, and sucker in the party hating malcontents to fracture what’s left of the party. The Donald gets the nomination and the Clintons get the WH. I imagine Donald and Melania will be the first guests of the first woman president.
Mighty slippery slope argument there. Vertical and sheer ice. But cute!