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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Simon Tisdall

Troublemaker Trump doesn’t care about a second term – or America. What he craves is attention

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Donald Trump announces he is running for US president at Mar-a-Lago, Florida. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP

For a man dismissed as a sad, bad loser who “rages at the dying of the right” while the world – and the Republicans – leave him behind, Donald Trump attracts a lot of attention. And that’s the whole point of his latest presidential bid.

It’s not even certain that Trump really wants the gig. No former president has recaptured the White House for a second, non-consecutive term since the Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1893. It would take some doing. Is his heart really in it?

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