Trump: Without Me, The Race Gets ‘Boring,’ Collapses, and Ratings Plummet

Behold the real-life equivalent of breaking the fourth wall.

Donald Trump‘s campaign has mostly been a spectacle designed to dazzle really conservative audiences and confound everyone else, and the true metrics of one’s worth to The Donald are ratings––TV-wise and polling-wise.

Which is why he would only leave the race if his numbers start dropping, which, let’s face it, isn’t gonna happen any time soon.

Well, Trump continued bragging in a New York Times interview out today, declaring that if he gets out, “there’d be a major collapse of the race, and there’d be a major collapse of television ratings.”

He continues:

Mr. Trump said that a presidential campaign without him would become so “boring” that he would struggle to pay any attention to it.

“I wouldn’t even be watching it probably, and neither would anybody else,” he said.

Is that a prediction or a threat?

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