‘That will be it’: Donald Trump makes candid admission about his political future

In a wide-ranging and at times bizarre interview, Donald Trump has made a blunt admission about his future in politics after November’s US election.

Donald Trump has made a significant revelation about his political future in a wide-ranging interview with a conservative news show host.

Right-leaning journalist Sharyl Atkisson, who fronts the program Full Measure, sat down with the former president and Republican candidate at his Florida resort.

The wide-ranging interview covered everything from the two attempts on his life to his fast food-heavy diet and his wild claims about “prisons being emptied all over the world” so criminals could be “dumped into the United States”.

But it was his candid admission about his political future that was perhaps the most telling.

For her final question, Atkisson asked Mr Trump what he would do should he lose the November election to Democratic hopeful and current Vice President Kamala Harris.

Journalist Sharyl Atkisson asked Donald Trump about everything from immigration to his diet. Picture: Full Measure

“If you’re not successful this time, do you see yourself running again in four years?” she asked.

Mr Trump swiftly replied that he didn’t imagine himself trying again in 2028, at which point he would be 82.

“I think that that will be, that will be it,” he said. “I don’t see that at all. I think that hopefully we’re gonna be successful.”

Elsewhere in the wide-ranging interview, Mr Trump doubled down on his assertion that the so-called “rhetoric” of the Harris-Walz campaign, which has described him as a threat to democracy, was to blame for his two assassination attempts.

Donald Trump has revealed he will not run for president again should he lose the November election to Kamala Harris. Picture: Full Measure

“I do [believe that] and a lot of people say that,” he said.

When asked if he was scared given the clear presence of danger, Mr Trump insisted he wasn’t because “if you’re scared, you can’t do your jump”.

“I have thus far had somebody protecting me because you almost think it couldn’t have just been two times. I mean, two times if I go another 300 or 400 yards walking, which I would’ve been there in a few minutes, right? Probably 15 minutes.

“Nasty things could have happened, would’ve happened. But we had a very good secret service agent that spotted a rifle coming out of a very, very dense group of trees and foliage and plants, saw the rifle and he started shooting. He didn’t talk, he shot.

“And then they caught him with the help of a woman, by the way, that got the license plate. And they were able to get ‘em in a high speed chase down a highway.”

Donald Trump believes remarks made about him by Kamala Harris played a role in inspiring two assassination attempts. Picture: Getty

Of the first attempt on his life at a campaign rally in the town of Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, Mr Trump made reference to his “quick turn of the head to show a chart” behind him, which he said meant the bullet fired by the 20-year-old gunman only grazed his ear.

The chart, which he said was “a good immigration chart [that] showed what a good job I did … will go down as my all-time favourite chart”.

Donald Trump's interview with the conservative news show was wide-ranging. Picture: Full Measure

Atkisson also pressed him on some of his notable and eyebrow-raising picks for senior government positions should he be elected.

Failed independent candidate Robert Kennedy Jr, who dropped out of the race and threw his support behind Mr Trump, and controversial billionaire Elon Musk, who has donated tens of millions of dollars to his campaign, would serve in his administration, he has previously revealed.

Despite that seeming conflict, he insisted he “didn’t make any deals” with the pair in exchange for their help.

And he wouldn’t be drawn on specifics about their potential roles.

Donald Trump wouldn’t share specifics about what Robert Kennedy Jr and Elon Musk will do in their government jobs, which he’s promised should he win the election.

Mr Kennedy would have something to do with “health and the environment”, Mr Trump indicated, while praising “what he’s done on healthcare over the years”.

The outspoken member of the Kennedy clan is a notorious anti-vaxxer who has been accused of undermining public health efforts by spreading dangerous misinformation about immunisations.

“I’ve known him for a long time, and with him, it’s eating what you eat, what chemicals you put in your body,” Mr Trump told Full Measure.

“I mean, he’s been fighting for this for years. He looks at other countries where they don’t use chemicals or they use much less than we use. And the people are healthier than they are in the United States, which is not that healthy a country.”

On Mr Musk’s role, he indicated he will be tasked with cutting government expenditure and waste.

“He’s a big cost-cutter. He is always been very good at it and I’m good at it. But Elon, I’ll tell you what, he will go in and he’ll say: ‘This is what you have to do. You have to do this.’

“He is so into that. He feels there’s so much waste and fat in this country. And he’s right.”

Originally published as ‘That will be it’: Donald Trump makes candid admission about his political future