Because people are tired of these nice people and they're tired of being ripped off by everybody in the world," he explained. "This is going to be an election that's based on competence. Trump, you're not a nice person."īut more to the point, he argued, voters don't care either way. In his speech on Tuesday, Trump suggested he's aware of his popularity problem, noting that people have said, "But Mr. A Monmouth Univeristy poll released Monday, for example, found that 20 percent of voters view Trump favorably, while 55 percent view him unfavorably - the worst spread of any Republican contender. While he's certainly a known commodity, it's not clear Trump has the personal popularity necessary to push him to the top of the presidential race. "I'm doing that to say that that's the kind of thinking our country needs. "I'm not doing that to brag," he rushed to clarify. "I'm really rich," Trump declared, holding aloft an estimate of his own net worth at $8,737,540,000 (more than double what Forbes magazine recently estimated.) Trump discussed his own personal financial picture at length, defying pundits who speculated that his reluctance to enter previous presidential contests stemmed from an aversion to publicizing his personal finances. "I hear my fellow Republicans, they're wonderful people," he said.
He stepped away from GOP orthodoxy on entitlements, though, vowing to save Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid without cutting them (details on how he would accomplish that were vague.) And he took a few shots at his fellow Republican contenders. He argued "the greatest social program is a job," vowing to be "the greatest jobs president that God ever created." He promised to build a "great, great wall on our southern border, and I would make Mexico pay for that wall." He pledged to "fully support and back up the Second Amendment" and to "end Common Core." He called Obamacare "the big lie," and vowed to replace it with something better and cheaper. Trump, who's running as a Republican, touched some traditionally conservative themes. If the right person asks them, they'd pay a fortune. Whenever they have problems, we send over the ships.what are we doing? They got nothing but money. "Saudi Arabia, they make a billion dollars a day," he later added.
They're controlled fully by the lobbyists, by the donors, and by the special interests."
"They will never make America great again. If you can't make a good deal with a politician, then there's something wrong with you, you're certainly not very good," he said. Donald Trump: Will he or won't he run for president?.Trump suggested the country is in deep trouble, and that politicians in both parties simply aren't equipped to come to the rescue. "Ladies and gentlemen: I am officially running for president of the United States, and we are going to make our country great again." "We need somebody who can take the brand of the United States and make it great again," he said. Transcript: Donald Trump's presidential announcement.Billionaire businessman and reality television star Donald Trump officially announced his 2016 presidential candidacy on Tuesday with a promise to do for America what he's always done for himself: nurture the brand.