Former President Donald Trump said he will not consider running again in 2028 if he loses in November.
Trump made that statement during an interview on an episode of “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson,” which aired on Sunday.
“If you’re not successful this time, do you see yourself running again in four years?” Attkisson, the interviewer, asked Trump:
“No, I don’t,” he replied. “I don’t see that at all.”
“I think that, hopefully, we’re going to be successful,” he added.
The duo also discussed other topics, including immigration and an incident in September where gunshots were fired near Trump’s Florida golf course.
After President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July, Trump, at 78, became the oldest presidential nominee in the country’s history.
And if he were to run again in November 2028, he would be 82 on election day that year.
Including this election cycle, Trump has run for the top job four times. He ran for the first time in 2000 with the Reform Party and thrice with the Republican Party in 2016, 2020, and 2024.
Before Biden dropped out of the race, Trump accused the president of being mentally incapable of running for reelection. He also dared Biden to take a cognitive test after the latter’s poor performance in the CNN debate in June.
Speaking at a Turning Point Action convention in Detroit in June, Trump said of Biden: “He doesn’t even know what the word ‘inflation’ means. I think he should take a cognitive test like I did.”
The former president said he took a cognitive test in 2018 and has since bragged about it, saying he “aced” the “very hard” assessment.
However, the test’s creator told The Washington Post that the assessment was “not meant to measure IQ or intellectual skill in any way” but to detect whether someone has cognitive problems like memory issues.
Separately, Trump has also called himself a “fine and brilliant young man” while attacking his significantly younger opponent, 59-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris.
A representative for Trump did not directly address BI’s questions when contacted for comment.
