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Donald Trump NOT Running in 2012

Truth rating: 10

12:45 pm, May 16th, 2011

FULL STATEMENT

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Donald Trump will NOT run for President in 2012.

The “Celebrity Apprentice” star and real estate mogul just released the following statement:

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FULL STATEMENT:

“After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency. This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country. I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election. I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning and recognize that running for public office cannot be done half heartedly. Ultimately, however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector.

I want to personally thank the millions of Americans who have joined the various Trump grassroots movements and written me letters and e-mails encouraging me to run. My gratitude for your faith and trust in me could never be expressed properly in words. So, I make you this promise: that I will continue to voice my opinions loudly and help to shape our politician’s thoughts.  My ability to bring important economic and foreign policy issues to the forefront of the national dialogue is perhaps my greatest asset and one of the most valuable services I can provide to this country.  I will continue to push our President and the country’s policy makers to address the dire challenges arising from our unsustainable debt structure and increasing lack of global competitiveness.  Issues, including getting tough on China and other countries that are methodically and systematically taking advantage of the United States, were seldom mentioned before I brought them to the forefront of the country’s conversation. They are now being debated vigorously. I will also continue to push for job creation, an initiative that should be this country’s top priority and something that I know a lot about. I will not shy away from expressing the opinions that so many of you share yet don’t have a medium through which to articulate.

I look forward to supporting the candidate who is the most qualified to help us tackle our country’s most important issues and am hopeful that, when this person emerges, he or she will have the courage to take on the challenges of the Office and be the agent of change that this country so desperately needs.

Thank you and God Bless America!

Donald J. Trump”

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Just yesterday, NBC’s entertainment chairman Bob Goldblatt had expressed hope that Trump would not run, but that NBC was prepared to replace him if need be.

Now that won’t be a problem.

What do you think about Trump’s decision not to run?

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  • Qthgal

    Good!

  • http://twitter.com/Marti723 Marti Mitev

    Thank god! :D

  • TIKO

    THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I HAVE HEARD SO FAR TODAY. NOW IF ONLY NBC WOULD DUMP HIS PROGRAM. LET HIM GO BACK TO THE BOARDROOM AND LET SOMEONE NAIL THE DOOR SHUT!!!!!!!!

  • http://societyfordaintydamsels.wordpress.com mugwort

    My impression is Donald Trump is only for the rich and the middle class, working class, low income can just go to put it politely down the river as far the TV personality, businessman is concerned. I remember when he went bankrupt and needed to be bailed out. So he should talk about being economically savvy. what a relief!!!

  • Holly

    Maybe the person talking about our country’s “unsustainable debt structure” shouldn’t be someone who has filed bankruptcy several times, screwing over his creditors.

  • Regina1180

    He was never going to run. If anybody actually thought that this was a possibility, they are as delusional as he is.

  • Brenda

    I would like to compliment gossip cop on the great picture of the idiot with this story. Totally catches the whole ugly thing. Very bad combover, big pig lipped mouth, and fat gut. This is no surprise to most of us. But he did get a lot of publicity.

  • Brenda

    I would like to compliment gossip cop on the great picture of the idiot with this story. Totally catches the whole ugly thing. Very bad combover, big pig lipped mouth, and fat gut. This is no surprise to most of us. But he did get a lot of publicity.

  • Whoa

    Mr. Trump. omg. I “voted” for you in your polls for the FUN of it. Such an ego you have to think (and actually say) that people would actually want you to run this country. So many reasons not to have you run, but one is your THIN SKIN as demonstrated at the Washington Correspondence dinner (and Jon Hamm’s recollection of sitting behind you) clearly shows you don’t have what it takes, and with you in charge, we’d be in WWIII and WWIV. Your thin skin however was good for some great laughs!

  • http://twitter.com/FamousZee RegretNothing

    thank you, thank you, thank you for agreeing NOT to run you jackass

  • Savona173

    I’m selling Trump blow up dolls, easy to do, they allready have blowup lips, cut open a salmon for hair (salmon head), and they have ugly fat round faces! Knowing he’s a draft dodger (blantly)-anti American ie. would you go all the way -for the U.S.A.” In ’68 my friends and myself got drafted, I never saw them again. Now get this, Trump says he’s the reason the U.S. is now dealing with N. Korea and China. This country has been dealing with them way before Obama! But my biggest question is WHO are these people who put him in the polls–it totaly baffels me! Who would even entertain a fowl mouthed, complacent draft dodger, disrupting government from serious work, wanting to show details of his wealth….to people struggling and out of work people. They must be people who watch his show and go away thinking they’re the next rock star. They should take all of these people and put them in a seperate state, called Disney State Trump World, or ship them off to Libya.
    Comix fart sounds blat..foopa…freep…foosh..flutterblast…trump!

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