He is the ONLY candidate I can think of that has nothing to lose everything to gain because all he cares about is going down in the history books as "The President that saved America".
THIS is why he scares the HELL out of so many alleged Republicans,as well as all the Dims.
Yet,some of you dummies hate him because he is rich and rude,while completely ignoring the fact that we NEED a President that is both rude,and who will never be running for re-election.
ALL Trump cares about is how he is written about in the history books.
@sneakypete None of that is unique to Trump.
Every President, no matter whose butt they kissed to get there in the first place, cares the most about the history books. Wealth is immaterial -- no matter how rich or poor a newly elected President is, he'll never have to worry about money again for the rest of his/her life. Books, speaking engagements, etc.. will make them all rich because any person elected President has enough people who support them to pay for all that, even if everyone else hates their guys. And once elected, they don't need to kiss any butts.
In reality, Trump being independently wealthy is irrelevant.
The only thing that is "unique" to Trump among the current set of contenders for the nomination is that he's ineligible for re-election. So maybe you could argue that should make him more effective in his second term because he doesn't have to worry about who he ticks off.
The problem with that is that I can't think of the last time any President had a more successful second term than first. And there are reasons for that. Usually, a President is at their most powerful right after getting elected for the first time, when everyone knows they will be there for at least 4 years and maybe even 8, and that they'll certainly be the dominant figure in the party four years later when they're running for re-election, and most independents want to give the new President a chance. They call it "the honeymoon period" for a reason.
In contrast, a President who is elected for their second term is a lame duck from the moment they are elected. Everyone knows that they'll be a non-factor at the next Presidential election so they are more willing to ignore them. And there's rarely a second-term honeymoon because the battle lines were already set for that particular President by the time the first term ended. The last President for whom that wasn't the case was FDR, and that's because there was no two-term restriction on the guy.
Bottom line is that it is extraordinarily unlikely that Trump's second term would even be as successful as his first. Being
more successful is almost an impossibility.
