Here’s something wild to think about, perhaps. Maybe an younger Trump always had intentions or wants to run for the presidency. Trump has switched parties 7 times and each time he switched; he became a member of the party which didn’t hold the presidency. A member of the minority party.
During Reagan, Trump was a Democrat, during Bill Clinton Trump became a Republican. Then in 2000, Trump joined my tiny Reform Party and ran for its presidential nomination. Following G.W. Bush’s election to the presidency, Trump went back to being a Democrat. Along come Obama, Trump once again becomes a Republican and then runs for the presidency as a Republican in 2016.

There’s no business advantage to always being a member of whichever party is in the minority nor does one increase influence, legislative wise by being a member of the minority party. Maybe Trump was just waiting for the opportunity to run for the presidency which he figured the party which didn’t hold the presidency gave him his best opportunity.

This is a very wild, out there theory. But why would someone always want to be a member of the minority party which doesn’t hold the presidency without some ulterior motive?

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.