>Legendary radio personality Howard Stern recently claimed that Donald Trump "never wanted to become president" in an old interview clip that is going viral.
>Stern took to a September 2024 live TV visit, where he said he "firmly believed that Donald did not want to run for president."
>He explained, "I don’t think he was serious. I don’t think he wanted to be the president. I knew him, he had a great life at Mar-a-Lago, he was running around town, he played golf, he had a good time," Stern went on.
>“I remember…the first time he said he might run for president, he put out his first book. And I know some of the people involved in this. And they said, ‘Pretend like you’re running for president and you’ll sell a lot of books.’ And he did it and it worked,” he continued. It comes after a Trump family member revealed the latest chilling symptom of his cognitive decline and revealed he is “far gone”.
>“Second book he put out, it was again, like four years later. He said, ‘I might run for president,’ and again he said, ‘I’m selling books, and it helps sell books, ’” Stern claimed. “So what happened this time? He’s on The Apprentice, the ratings were going down.”
>So what did he say? ‘I’ll run for president, I’ll get a lot of press.’ And I really believe this was a gimmick to get NBC to raise up his salary and to keep The Apprentice on. And I would bet the farm on that,” he finished firmly.

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