Trump Not Running in 2020?

Recently, Thurgood Marshall Jr. and Stephen R. Okun published a commentary on Channel News Asia, a Singapore-based channel that reaches 10 million viewers monthly. Their article was headlined “Could Donald Trump not run for re-election?”

I stumbled upon the article which showed up on the 7th page of my Google search for “Trump won’t run in 2020.” I ran the search after seeing that instantly iconic picture of Trump walking from his helicopter after his return to the White House from his failed Tulsa rally. The President is disheveled. His tie is undone. His shoulders are hunched and let me tell you, people, he’s wearing a very sad face.

I squinted. “He is defeated,” I thought. A longtime political junky, I could not remember ever seeing a picture like this of an American President, even in the darkest of times. Okay, maybe Richard Nixon towards the end of the Watergate scandal. But after he’d been forced to resign, even Tricky Dicky had been able to force a positive looking smile on his way out of DC. He at least tried to pretend that he still had some of his old confidence and swagger. But not the Donald. Not after the Tulsa debacle.

Defeat is something that Donald Trump knows very well. For all his talk of “winning,” few public people have lost as often as Donald Trump. He has to his credit a half dozen bankruptcies, a failed university, a…