# NYT: Trump Pretty Much Offered to Let John Kasich Run the Government

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 21, 2016, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-trump-pretty-much-offered-to-let-john-kasich-run-the-government/760487 "2016-07-21T12:37:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-trump-pretty-much-offered-to-let-john-kasich-run-the-government/760487/41 "2016-07-21T22:38:12Z")

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Well Trump has already succeeded at the most common of these aspirational fantasies. Like most people who would “love to write a book” he really would “love to have written a book” without the actual writing.

[Trump: The Art of the Deal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump:_The_Art_of_the_Deal)

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-trump-pretty-much-offered-to-let-john-kasich-run-the-government/760487/42 "2016-07-21T22:42:40Z")

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Not going to lie, this makes me hopeful. It makes me think Trump knows he is in over his head, and is willing to let other people actually run the country. He just wants the prestige and honor of being president.

I greatly prefer that over a guy too dumb and narcissistic to understand that he doesn’t know what he is doing.

Of course now it makes Mike Pence the real president. That sucks.

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-trump-pretty-much-offered-to-let-john-kasich-run-the-government/760487/43 "2016-07-21T22:45:38Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Yep. Trump might want to be president, but he doesn’t actually want to _ **be** _ president.

I think Trump wants to be president the same way that people who play video games want to be in the navy seals. They want to rush into homes with guns blazing, and do adventurous stuff they associate with special forces. But the actual nuts and bolts of it that make up 99% of what people in special forces actually do (endless training, mind numbing repetition, being constantly uncomfortable, chronic stress and lack of sleep, briefings, long boring plane and car rides, etc). No thanks.

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**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-trump-pretty-much-offered-to-let-john-kasich-run-the-government/760487/44 "2016-07-21T23:44:04Z")

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> [@leftfield6](#):
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> I have another role in mind for Trump. Citizen.

Yes. The Syrian population is thinning out. He’ll fit right in.

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