Donald J. Trump, the garrulous real estate developer whose name has adorned apartment buildings, hotels, Trump-brand neckties and Trump-brand steaks, announced on Tuesday his entry into the 2016 presidential race, brandishing his wealth and fame as chief qualifications in an improbable quest for the Republican nomination.

Mr. Trump declared his candidacy in the atrium of Trump Tower, the luxury skyscraper on Fifth Avenue in New York City, proclaiming that only someone “really rich” – like himself – could restore American economic primacy.

“We need somebody that can take the brand of the United States and make it great again,” said Mr. Trump, repeatedly assailing China and Mexico as economic competitors, and pledging to be “the greatest jobs president that God ever created.”
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Mr. Trump, 69, has long toyed with running for president, boasting of his credentials as an entrepreneur and mocking the accomplishments of prominent elected officials. He has used the platform of a reality television show, NBC’s “The Apprentice,” to burnish his pop-culture image as a formidable man of affairs.

Mr. Trump, who has never held elected office, may not be so easily confined to the margins of the 2016 campaign. Thanks to his enormous media profile, he stands a good chance of qualifying for nationally televised debates, where his appetite for combat and skill at playing to the gallery could make him a powerfully disruptive presence.

In the past, Mr. Trump’s presidential posturing has seldom been taken seriously, and for good reason: Ahead of the 2000 and 2012 elections, Mr. Trump twice hyped up the possibility of seeking the White House before abandoning the idea.

Mr. Trump’s remarks in Midtown Manhattan are unlikely to allay suspicions that he is entering the race mainly to appear in debates and win attention to the media. He bragged extensively about the golf resorts he owns (“I have the best courses in the world”) and a hotel he is developing in Washington.

Credit: New York Times

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He has been declaring but never contesting. Last time he declared Obama made an animated porn of him frolicking at the white house with girls, like "This is how white house is gonna be with Trump in it"

Trump in the white house. Interesting.