So far in the Republican debates, he's been able to get away with rambling nonsense and not lose his supporters.
If he indeed is the R nominee (God help us all), then you're absolutely right......... he's going to have to start preparing.
I think his narcissism and ego will prevent that, however, and he's just going to get annihilated by a very stupid Hillary Clinton.
I still don't think he is serious,and my reasons haven't changed.
1: He will NOT put his assets into blind trusts,and if he would refuse congress would explode because every other president in modern times has done so.
2: His enormous ego is as fragile as it is yuge,and there is not one chance in hell of him ever taking a chance of losing in such a public way that he would not be able to deny losing. He will stay in it right up to the point where he starts getting hit with hard questions he can't answer and the media won't back off and ignore his non-answers. Once they start dogging him and making him look like the fool he is,he is going to drop out.
Which leads to number 3.
3: He will drop out of the race and spent the rest of his life bragging about how "I COULD have been the President of the US if I had wanted,but decided the job was beneath me." Fully half of his estimated $4 billion net work is based on HIS estimate of the value of his trademark,the Trump name.
Now,just imagine how much he thinks it will be worth if he drops out while there is still some chance he might have won,versus what it would be worth if he is beaten by Bubbette! Clinton.