A very revealing Donald Trump quote about why he ran for president
(CNN)Ask most politicians why they run for president and you are likely to get an answer that sounds something like, "I wanted to do the most good for the most people as possible," or something similar.
Donald Trump is not most politicians.
Trump, in an interview with the New York Times' Maggie Haberman for her forthcoming book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America," revealed the "why" behind his past and (likely) future bids for the nation's highest office.
"The question I get asked more than any other question: 'If you had it to do again, would you have done it?'" Trump told Haberman. "The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here's the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are."
OK. So, just to be crystal clear here -- Trump is saying that if he had it to do all over, he would run for president again because it made him more famous. That the key motivation for him to run for president was to be well-known -- and it worked.
That's a startlingly honest admission -- even for Trump. He didn't even attempt to go for a more traditional answer like, I don't know, helping people or seeing policies he believed in enacted and executed. Just right to the purely personal.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/donald-trump-president-quote-maggie-haberman-book/index.html
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