# Donald Trump announces presidential run **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 16, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679 "2015-06-16T16:35:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 116
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/116 "2015-06-20T20:03:19Z")
Understand something: Trump. Is. NOT. Running. He can give speeches all he wants, but he hasn’t filed with the FEC as a candidate for President, and he isn’t going to. As he always does, he’s going to milk this for a lot of publicity, and then drop out. He has no constituency, and he knows it. He doesn’t want to be President- he doesn’t even want to campaign. He just likes attention, positive OR negative. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679)._