Trump predicts war as Obama re-election tactic

Times247

During an appearance on the “Jay Severin Show” on Boston’s Talk 1200, real estate mogul and media personality Donald Trump predicted that President Barack Obama would start a war with Iran for the sole purpose of winning re-election in November.

Businessman and real estate developer Donald Trump greets Mitt Romney and his wife Anne after Trump endorsed Romney's candidacy for president at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, Feb. 2. / Reuters/Steve Marcus

Trump said starting a war worked for former President George W. Bush, giving him temporary high approval ratings, and he said Obama is almost certainly eyeballing a similar polling bump.

“I’m a man that said that Obama will have a war Iran because I think it’s politically a positive for him,” Trump said.

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