Please, dear God, don't fall for Donald Trump's nonsense
We've been doing our best here at War Room to ignore the utterly hollow "Donald Trump might run for president!' story that Mark Halperin has been relentlessly promoting this week.
But "Morning Joe" took the bait earlier today, with Mika Brezinski pleading with Trump on the air today to "answer the question (of whether he'll run) on 'Morning Joe' at some point when you feel like it," and now Trump's response is making news.
Of course, after milking the speculation for oodles of publicity, Trump ultimately announced that he wouldn't run. And now, 11 years later, he's up to his old tricks. But when he says that this is the first time he's ever thought about running -- well, either he's being disingenuous now, or he was being disingenuous 11 years ago.
To the show's credit, "Morning Joe" did run a brief clip from '99 before today's Trump interview, noting that he has toyed with a White House bid before. But no one followed up on Trump's claim that this is the first time he's thought about it, or asked why we should take him any more seriously now. (Also, for what it's worth: Trump ended the segment by giving a shout-out to Pat Buchanan, who was on the "Morning Joe" panel, for having "a lot of good answers." Back in '99, when Buchanan was angling for the Reform Party nomination he was flirting with, Trump dismissed him as "an anti-Semite.")
Anyway, Trump isn't running, ignore all the stories you see this week, and that's the last you'll hear about any of this here.
