Oh, WOW!!! Donald Trump just announced he's running for POTUS

[darkxtsuna]

Hope he fails, can't believe his even trying when his a dam racist,cruel,self centered low life.

[Nancy5]

I honestly think he is running only for publicity.  He has to realize there is no way he is going to win.  Personally I can't stand him and his ways.  He is 100% for the rich people and could care less for the middle or poor class.

[sfreeman8]

He is a business man he will run this country like a business we are in trouble

Government is a business. It's the biggest business in this country. They're in the business of making money, too, to support their "products" (which happen to be the EPA, DEP, DoE, etc.)  He has dealt with businesses all over the world but I doubt heads of state. Have to do more research to find out.

As for clothing made in China...I don't know if he has a choice. He, himself, doesn't have any factories so he's not manufacturing the products. He did state why his stuff comes from China but I missed that info.

[kimber62372]

money buys politics and politics just plain sucks the life and integrity out of people! if he becomes president, I hope he tells some people in the white house "ya fired!" lol

[autumnsparklemom]

Like him but can not see him being president. But anyone has to be better than what is in there now.

[Liquidfire_43]

Not sure about Donald Trump.. I heard he ran a university and use the student's tuition to to fund his real estate investment. He ripped off 5,000 students nationwide by promising to make them rich when instead they were steered into costly and mostly useless seminars. Kind of dumb to believe that the courses will guarantee to make you rich (like a Ponzi scheme) but I guess people really believed in the integrity of Trump's promise

[Tresbn00]

He signed a book for me when he opened the Taj Mahal in Atlantic city and I had been to a few of his motivational seminars. He started to decline, in my eyes about ten years ago.  I have gotten Forbes top four hundred issue every year for about twenty years and I noticed that he was becoming more and more obstinate in his net worth disclosure/ non-disclosure as he became older.  I used to respect Donald Trump but heading into politics has changed him. His approach has been less than sane and he appears to be doing nothing but drawing attention to himself. His own party is saying that he should be reprimanded for his offensive and disrespectful comments about McCain.  I think that he is a potent publicity stunt, has no chance at the presidency, and his acquired votes will be ceded into another hopeful.

[lynnc35]

When people run for something such as this they need to watch things that they say first. He offended a lot of people.

[twinpower90]

That's laughable to me but then again stranger people have been elected into office in this country.

[bowrunner]

He's very forthright, doesn't use a teleprompter, has no advisors and is using his own money.  That being said I wish he would discuss Hillary Clinton more and his Republican opponents less.  McCain did ask for what Trump said about him by calling Trump's very large audience "crazies."  Graham asked for it also by calling Trump a "jackass."   I really don't know what kind of a President he would make but anything is better than what we have.

[sfreeman8]

Thanks everyone for your comments. I thought I was the only one who doesn't care for him. He keeps digging his heels in deeper and deeper. People love him and now I hear he may run as an Independent if he doesn't get the nomination. The picture in my mind is him standing there stomping his feet with closed fists throwing a temper tantrum.

Yes, I used to like him. But a couple years ago, I started to see the other side of him. He's ignorant. When you run for president, you don't trash the other candidates. You show some respect for them.

Plus, he keeps the media focused on him with his insults and hate and that keeps the focus off the other candidates. Have you seen many interviews with the others running? I haven't and this is how Trump works. Plus, over the years he has donated thousands of dollars to both parties so he can garner favors from whichever party is in power.

If people don't go with the candidate running against HIllary, she will surely win. I'm not ready for more intense Obamanomic policies, but twice as bad, which is what we'd get; yet it's unbelievable how many people are already stating they'll stay home and not vote if Trump doesn't get nominated. I remember that happened in 2008 because people didn't like McCain. I didn't care for him either but I didn't want Obama because i researched him thoroughly (more than what the DNC/Congress or whoever vets these candidates did). I saw what he would do and he's holding exactly to what he said he was going to do. If people would have only read up on him, they wouldn't have been so quick to vote for him. He has given our country away. It will take years to undo what he has destroyed.

That was my opinion in 2008 and I gave him 2 years to prove me wrong and he didn't. Now he's going to release criminals from prison and probably give Gitmo to Cuba...plus free the Gitmo prisoners. He's already released over 37,000 ILLEGAL immigrant criminals a/k/a Katy Steinle criminals during the year and left our borders wide open to terrorists.  Never again should people vote for someone that has NO foreign policy or even political or military background experience. Twice of incompetence is enough. I'm afraid DT will fit the incompetence background, too, if he treats other countries the way he treats people.

[ShadowWolf16]

At this point, I have no idea who I will vote for. But, the man is saying and making all these promises because he thinks this is what the American people want to hear. He will never deliver on said promises and quite frankly, I think he's a huge joke.

[JediJohnnie]

I have to say I admire his no nonsense approach. He says what he means and doesn't do the political double speak waltz.

[lmrbean]

I am looking forward to seeing Donald Trump at a debate he'll really liven it up and will discuss the topics we really want to hear!

[misi49]

Even though I always don't agree with everything he says, at least he's not afraid to speak his mind.  Considering the presidents we have had in the recent past and the current candidates running, he can't be any worse.  At least he'll be fun to listen to in the debates.