I in no way believe Trump colluded with Bill Clinton to run for the presidency.

[MohRokTah]

I do, however, find it entirely possible that Bill Clinton may have goaded Trump into running.

***Read the following words in Bill Clinton's voice***

Now Donald, you and I both know for a fact you could beat all of these idiots on the Republican side with both your hands tied behind your back and you'd only have to spend a pittance because the media would eat up the charisma you have and you'd be constantly given free media. But c'mon, we also both know there's no way you are going to be able to beat Hillary in a general election, so why even waste the time?

Yeah, I could see that.

[tonyt53]

1. Bill is smart enough to pull that one off.

[Else You Are Mad]

2. I don't think it happened...

But Bill Clinton is a master political manipulator. He generally used his power for good, but I don't doubt it is within his ability to con Trump into running.

[Squinch]

3. Barak Obama goaded Trump to run at the Correspondents' Dinner where Obama made fun of him.

I would be very surprised if Trump's whole campaign did not come out of a wish to get even with Obama for ridiculing him so successfully. Trump is just doing this to be able to say that Obama hasn't done anything Trump hasn't done.

And he's not fit to shine Obama's shoes.

It's delicious.

It's not a Clinton conspiracy. It's just Obama humor and a Trump asshole.

[Svafa]

4. I certainly wouldn't put it past Drumpf to be that childish.

[backscatter712]

6. He's easily that childish. Classic case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

If you look up that disorder in the DSM, you'll find his picture in there.

[DemonGoddess]

5. ^^^This!!!

His face was quite red by the time PBO was done with him.

[TheKentuckian]

7. belief acknowledged

[MohRokTah]

9. I didn't say I believed it, just that it was possible.

I don't even for a moment believe it was possible that Clinton colluded with Trump.

[Her Sister]

8. Heck even Ophrah told/asked Trump to run many times in her show!

seems like a thing people like to say! As we learned, I think, people ought to not say that so freely-neely!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Trump's a prototypical pathological narcissist.

NPD, to be exact. And those type of people with fame and connections with power.

So Trump through various social interactions in his pre-political days gets Bill Clinton's card and has it in his rolodex, so he can brag about having former Presidents in his rolodex. Having contact with a former leader of the free world is as pretty much as high as you can get in terms of power, even for a billionaire such as Trump.

Bill Clinton, on the other hand, has interacted with world leaders galore and billionaires multiple times richer than Donald.

So Trump's relationship with Bill Clinton is infinitely more important to Trump than Bill's relationship with Trump is to Bill.

Trump calls up Bill, asks for "advice", and Bill probably humors him for about 2-3 minutes giving very vague and unspecific advice. He then ends the phone call and gets on with his own life being Bill Clinton.

That's pretty much how I saw it go down.

[Nye Bevan]

11. If Bill wanted to become First Gentleman,

goading Trump into running for president was an absolute stroke of fucking political genius.

[MohRokTah]

12. I've met Bill Clinton. I've spoken to him.

If he did goad the cockwomble into running, he would have been far subtler than my example in the OP. He would have done it in such a way that Shitgibbon would have never known it was happening.