Trump for president, the interview

The Interview: Here's the full interview I did with Donald Trump on WHO radio this afternoon. Yes, he sounds VERY serious about running for president. Either that, or he is a heckuva salesman. My previous post has some of the highlights of the interview. Since then, I now know, Mike Cohen, the man behind www.shouldtrumprun.com, will be flying into Des Moines on Monday (in one of Trump's planes). His official title is this: Executive Vice President and Special Counsel to Donald J. Trump. He plans on meeting with Republican Party of Iowa State Chairman Matt Strawn and some others. Sounds like the Trump people are starting to look into the organizational and ground game aspects of a possible run by talking with people in the know. If Trump confirms that he is coming to western Iowa Congress Steve King's event later this month with some other presidential possibles, perhaps, we'll see how serious Trump really is about 2012. This audio is courtesy: WHO radio.

Trump for president

The Donald--We've heard from Huckabee, Santorum, Gingrich, Barbour and even a little bit from Palin in Iowa. But we haven't heard anything from the Donald. We did today. Donald Trump joins me on WHO radio this afternoon at around 4:35pm (you can listen on-line at whoradio.com). We taped an interview with him from his office in Manhattan. Trump sounds serious about running. Really serious. He's also apparently not a big fan of President Obama. He said "nobody respects us". He said the president's actions have been "very disappointing and sad". And he told me it's the president's fault the world doesn't think more of us. He also doesn't think much of the possible presidential field, even on the Republican side. He said they are the reason he would have to get into the race. He doesn't want to, he said, but he has no choice. And he said he is more qualified to be president than someone with just a governor on his/her resume. Trump also has a way to immediately bring down the deficit. He said we have too many troops too many places around the world. And when we send them to help some country, that country should help pay the bill for the assistance.

Trump said if he runs, he will announce it after his show, "The Apprentice", on NBC wraps up for the season. That would be in June. By the way, the show begins its new season this Sunday night. Trump said he will come to Iowa a lot if he runs. And he said he has been invited to western Iowa Congressman Steve King's Conservative Principles Conference on March 26th, where other possibles including Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton have already announced their intentions to come. Trump didn't say whether he will come to the conference.

Trump also has an interesting take on whether, during these crummy economic times, Americans would really want to elect a really rich guy to the White House.

What do you think of him running for president? Join us on WHO radio this afternoon from 4 to 7.