What someone wrote about Trump.

Somebody asked this question:

Do you believe Trump will go back for re-election in 2024?

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Somebody else wrote this answer and I agree with it:

I don't. But I think he wants his fans to think he will.

I actually think Trump never wanted to be President. I think he ran in 2016 as a way to increase his profile after the cancellation of the Apprentice, a show that was propping up his finances at the time. He desperately wanted another reality show.

So he entered the primary, threw around a bunch of insults, never bothered to learn any facts about any issues, and had fun. But what he didn't expect is that the media was desperate to sabotage the GOP. They gave him all of the press attention, starving other candidates of a chance to raise their profile. They'd hoped this would leave the GOP nominee weak because they assumed it wouldn't be Trump.

But GOP voters despise the media (quite reasonable given how biased it is and the way it openly attacks conservatives). By focussing on Trump and with Trump hurling insults at the media, GOP primary voters decided they liked Trump.

Trump never spent on the 2016 campaign. He ran a weak campaign. But once he was nominated, he faced off against the one candidate that Americans hated almost as much as they hated Trump. His main weaknesses were neutralized by Hillary's weaknesses. Then, when Comey worried that his fake investigation into the emails might get him in trouble, he reopened the investigation into Hillary right before the election and it was enough to give Trump the win.

I think Trump loved the attention of being president but hated the pressure and the consequences of his many failures. I think Trump wanted to lose in 2020, which is why he ran such a weak campaign. In that first debate, I think Trump was trying to look at loathsome as possible in an attempt to ensure he lost. He even started the voter fraud stuff months before the election so as to have an excuse when he lost.

And now that he has lost, he wants to keep his base thinking that he only could have lost through fraud so he sets himself up as something of a political martyr. He'll create a TrumpTV and leverage his brand into a massive moneymaking effort.

But I think he won't run in 2024, though he will act like he plans to right up until the last possible moment.

-- Entropy