He only does it to get free publicity...only this time the Republican party is so fucked, he's actually a viable candidate.

This is a scary proposition folks...this reeks of the 2000 election and, quite frankly, scares the shit out of me.

He has never had any success at doing or running anything. Buying stuff and bullshitting about it is where he's at.

I'm not sure "egomaniac" fits. It's something even more fundamental and very, very sick. I suppose his office still has the phone with the bazillion buttons it for every media outlet he could find. Every time he farted he hit the buttons to let everyone know.

I was not alone in assuming this was just another PR stunt-- once again "running" for Prez and then finding an excuse to drop out. But, he actually stated winning, probably surprising him as much as the rest of us while stuffing his insatiable ego. So, he runs with it, as he does with everything else, with absolutely no actual plan.

It's not his fault the Base over there has been made so intentionally stupid that they wrongly believe these pass as qualifications.
The Establishment types know better, but as far as that goes, fuck them, they PUT those seeds in the ground and now they want to have a sad cause there's a plant there?
Yeah, no sympathy. Maybe they should have paid more attention to 3rdGrade Science class.

Trump is in this for the sole purpose of feeding his ego. He has no discernible ideology; he's running as a GOPer because they're on board with the hateful, xenophobic stuff he says but probably does not really believe or particularly care about. If he's good at one thing, though, it's marketing. He knows there's a market of fearful, hateful, racist old white people, and if he says he hates the same people they hate, they'll love him. But he's like a dog chasing cars: the chase is fun for the dog but what happens if it actually catches one? Trump doesn't know how to govern, nor does he want the hard work and frustrations involved in doing it.

If, God help us, he actually wins, I'm quite certain that the people who were stupid enough to vote for him will be very disappointed. He won't be able to build a wall along the border with Mexico, or throw out all the Muslims, or any of the other stupid and/or unconstitutional things he says he's going to do. And the GOP will go down in flames - maybe the only good thing that could result from such a disaster.

but sees a perfect opportunity to promote himself at the expense of the Party. Hell, I think the Big Dog put him up to it, just to fuck with Repub's once again!

I think Rubio or Kasich with be the republican nominee. Which is much more worrisome to me than tRump.

because it's boring and meaningless or whatever crap he spewed about not liking being in Congress.

YEAH, he'll make a super president. WTF?

Dictators have been elected before. Then they discontinue the elections.

Of course he wants to be President. He has wanted to for 30 years

He wants to win the race to be made the most powerful man in the world. But he hasn't been planning what to do if he were elected, beyond a 'residual racism', as the article says.

It's possible the article is right. Though he apparently had shedloads of money (though that might be a hoax, of course), he didn't try and buy influence in the way that Adelson or the Koch brothers did. He didn't try to get involved in policy or get elected to some position the way Steve Forbes or Michael Bloomberg did. He used politicians just to get his building deals approved, and for publicity.

What would suit him best would be 'king'. Or maybe 'Kaiser'.

Although the profession has changed a lot of the labels recently, grouping a bunch of disorders that share various traits under one label, NPD is still a well recognized disorder. You can't expect people with a serious personality disorder to react or reason as others do.

I believe the man wants admiration, attention, stature far more than he wants power itself. After all, he is a billionaire who became a hiree of a network so that he could posture on television. He lied about whose show it was, how people saw him being far more important than reality. He never understood how ridiculous he looked.

And investing his time that way cost him big. As a billionaire he's not much, losing enormous fortunes while the fortunes of hundreds of other billionaires grow virtually on their own -- as well as by assist in most cases, of course. He could, as most normal people would, have committed himself to growing his money-is-power instead of tweeting insults and posturing on TV, but he did not.

However, by running for president The Donald is nonetheless able to show the world that he really is the biggest of all in spite of the numbers.

Notably, unlike many other billionaires, he has no history of using his real power to cause political and/or social change.

Bottom line in any case, imagining himself strutting onto the stage to "Hail to the Chief" is not the same as wanting the job of president and wanting to do more with its power than just show it off. (Horrible thought, that last.)

People that believe Trump doesn't want it are deluded and are in for a big surprise

but it's way past obvious now that that's wrong.