{"id":6779,"date":"2011-05-19T09:22:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6779"},"modified":"2011-05-19T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:19:16","slug":"trump-says-hes-not-running-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6779","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He&#8217;s Not Running For President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; After months of flirting with politics, <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> said Monday he won&#8217;t run for president, choosing to stick with hosting &#8220;The Celebrity Apprentice&#8221; over a bid for the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The reality TV star and real estate mogul made his announcement at a Manhattan hotel as NBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not be running for president as much as I&#8217;d like to,&#8221; <strong>Trump<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump&#8217;s<\/strong> office released a formal statement just as he was taking the stage. In it, a confident <strong>Trump<\/strong> said he felt he could win the Republican primary and beat<strong> President Barack Obama<\/strong> in the general election, but had come to realize a presidential campaign could not be run half-heartedly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector,&#8221; <strong>Trump<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; After months of flirting with politics, Donald Trump said Monday he won&#8217;t run for president, choosing to stick with hosting &#8220;The Celebrity Apprentice&#8221; over a bid for the Republican nomination. The reality TV star and real estate mogul made his announcement at a Manhattan hotel as NBC. &#8220;I will not be running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}