“TRUMP: I’M IN FOR 2020!” blares the current Drudge Report banner, “NAMES CAMPAIGN MANAGER.”
Drudge bills it as “world exclusive” that the 45th president will seek a second term, that Trump will not join the likes of Calvin Coolidge and Lyndon B. Johnson who quit the White House after one term.
Drudge is right to do so. This is big news. Until recently no one knew whether Trump really liked the job.
After living as a miniature monarch in Manhattan, N.Y., Trump seemed to bristle under the weight and obligation of the Oval Office. He is frustrated by the courts, by congressional inaction, and by a media that just doesn’t like him like they did back during his business days.
Reading into the frowns and the frustration, some have wondered whether Trump would walk away. GQ’s Keith Olbermann predicted that Trump would resign suddenly. David Von Drehle of the Washington Post pointed out that he doesn’t like being president, asking Trump “so why not quit?”
Maybe that analysis was wishful thinking. Then again, Trump is the president of the United States, a fact that boggled everyone on election night. Anything could happen. Right? But now, for the first time in the Trump presidency, it seems relatively safe to say that Trump won’t willingly hand the reigns over to Vice President Mike Pence.
Three days before Drudge reported that Trump had hired a campaign manager for 2020, the president hyped the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference with talk about the stock market and the economy. Things will only get better, he promised, “We’ve got seven years to go, folks. We got a long time to go.”
So here’s the legitimate surprise: Trump seems to enjoy being president.
