Ah, but perhaps we are missing Donald's political genius. Some of us, from the very beginning, doubted his desire to actually win the election and spend four years lashed to public political office, with its billions of meetings and low ( for him) pay. 
But to run, get the publicity, tweak his enemies, and leave when he loses to be a New York version of Sarah Palin...that is taking a lot of hard work and all of his brilliance. He keeps his base baying at his moon, but makes sure the national press reports his unwillingness to understand or even care about greater America. 
I wonder if time will eventually produce his self written epitaph where he discloses his true aim, to run and lose, and really mess with the Republican Party in the running. 
Hugh Massengill, Eugene