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Trump: Might run if GOP chooses 'wrong person'
Real estate mogul Donald Trump warned Republicans on Monday that "if they choose the wrong person," he could still enter the presidential fray after his NBC show "The Apprentice" finishes airing in May.
"If the Republicans, and I've said this to you a number of times, if they choose the wrong person, and the economy will continue to be bad, because we have people who absolutely have no idea what they're doing leading the country, I think it continues to be a possibility," Trump said on "Fox and Friends."
On Thursday, Trump's wife, Melania, told CNN Headline News's Joy Behar that he was “still thinking about it” and “will make the decision in a few weeks."
The Fox hosts asked Trump whom the "wrong" candidate would be, throwing out the name of Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
"I don't want to say anything bad about Ron Paul — he's an interesting guy, he has some very interesting views," Trump said.
But Trump said he was mostly concerned about the viability of the GOP candidate against President Obama.
Trump said he would consider running "if they choose the wrong candidate, and by that I mean the wrong candidate or a candidate who can't beat Obama, because you have to get him out of the presidency; he is destroying America."
He went on to say that if he did run, it would be as an Independent, and not until his NBC reality show finished airing.
"As you know, I can't do anything until May because of the ridiculous laws that talk about equal time, meaning that I have this big television show, so I'm not allowed to do anything. Would I like to do something sooner? Perhaps I would. But the laws preclude me from doing anything until May," Trump said.
Trump also sneaked in a birther shot at the president when discussing Obama's gaffe at a recent meeting of Asian leaders in Hawaii. At one point, Obama mistakenly said he was in Asia despite still being in Hawaii, and Trump sarcastically noted it was the state Obama was born in.
Trump has questioned the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate, buying into disproven Internet conspiracy theories that Obama may have been foreign-born.
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