Sept. 27, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| Do you have any aspirations for political office sometime in the future? | |
| I'm one of those guys that doesn't need to be in the spotlight. | |
| I've run our company for a very long time. | |
| I'm very good at it. | |
| I love work. | |
| I love capitalism. | |
| I love hotels. | |
| I love real estate. | |
| I enjoy politics. | |
| It's not my first love. | |
| Frankly, I detest half the people in politics because I think most of them are free freeloaders who've never actually accomplished anything. | |
| And I think what I'm learning, I mean, I certainly learned this first time, but we were truly under siege first time. | |
| I think the second time is like I'm watching my father make transformational change. | |
| I mean, look how look military recruitment under Biden was the worst it's ever been in the history of our nation. | |
| One month later, like everybody was applying. | |
| Everybody wanted to be in the United States military. | |
| There was patriotism again. | |
| There was so there are certain things, I mean you can just make transformational change on, you know, if you're a real leader and you do it the right way. | |
| You know, forget about all these these career politicians say I'm gonna go into DC and I'm gonna make a difference. | |
| Most of them don't, and they fall prey to you know, kind of you know, Washington, DC mob. | |
| But listen, I would never rule anything out. | |
| I what I can tell you is I think it's given us a great voice. | |
| Um I think we've all developed a great voice. | |
| We have a we had a voice from the business world, and we had a voice from the number one reality TV show. | |
| I was on The Apprentice for seven years. | |
| You know, we had some confidence, we had some backbone, and then all of a sudden we got into politics, and I think we developed a real voice and a real comfort on that stage. | |
| And um real backbone, right? | |
| I mean, this stuff requires real backbone as they try and literally and figuratively kill you in every aspect of your soul and your company and your family and your marriage and everything else. | |
| And so I think it I think it armored us um in a unique way. | |
| Uh and I think I could do it. | |
| I think I could do it in uh, but but the question is, do you want to? | |
| Um and you know, we've seen the greatest parts of politics, we've certainly seen the worst parts. | |
| We've definitely seen the worst parts, worse than probably most can ever imagine, hence the whole point of the book Under Siege, telling all those stories. | |
| Um but I'd never rule anything out. | |
| Um I believe in this country. | |
| I love red, white, and blue. | |
| Uh I love our first amendment, I love our constitution. | |
| Uh we have to become the we have to stay the dominant superpower of the world. | |
| And um you do need good people. | |
| And and you better. | |
| You better have people like Donald Trump who will set everything aside, set aside his wealth, set aside his fortune, set aside his family, set aside his his company, you know, to do the unthinkable. | |
| Um there's not a lot of courageous people out there, uh, truly, in in of the Fortune 500 crowd, and very few of them would say, listen, I'm gonna sacrifice all of it to run against 16 Republicans who actually know a damn about politics, or know something about politics, | |
| which which we did not, and then have to run against somebody like Hillary Clinton, you know, one of the great political dynasties of of modern times, you know, only in the off chance of being able to win at a at a five to one financial deficit, self-funding your whole campaign. | |
| Like, give me another billionaire who would agree to those terms. | |
| Zero, right? | |
| I mean, these people gamble on probability, and and I think traditional sense would say that your probability was probably not not very good under those odds, right? | |
| If you're lying that up and say, okay, you have to run against 16 Republicans, beat them, you have to then beat the Clinton family at a five to one deficit with the entire media hating you. | |
| How many other billionaires would have taken that, right? | |
| Hence the reason you get you get Joe Biden as as as your president versus getting Warren Buffett. | |
| Um at that said, you have to have great business leaders, people who can offer transformational change, and um I'd love to see many more of them. |
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