--- title: Donald Trump Shrugs Off Speculation He Might Not Run for Re-election description: President Trump brushed off speculation that he might choose to not seek re-election, telling the New York Times: “I love this job.” canonical: https://time.com/5518416/trump-love-job-2020/ author: Billy Perrigo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-01T13:29:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T22:39:14.798Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Shrugs Off Speculation He Might Not Run for Re-election in 2020: 'I Love This Job' og:description: 'You know, fortunately, I don’t need money.' og:url: https://time.com/5518416/trump-love-job-2020/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9549bdce27d19057/6989445f929fad5e72bf29eb/gettyimages-1091954524.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: US-CHINA-POLITICS-TRADE-ECONOMY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Shrugs Off Speculation He Might Not Run for Re-election in 2020: 'I Love This Job' twitter:description: 'You know, fortunately, I don’t need money.' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9549bdce27d19057/6989445f929fad5e72bf29eb/gettyimages-1091954524.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Shrugs Off Speculation He Might Not Run for Re-election in 2020: 'I Love This Job' > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Billy Perrigo](https://time.com/author/billy-perrigo/)  ## Billy Perrigo Correspondent Feb 1, 2019 1:29 PM UTC  JAN 31: President Donald Trump waits for a meeting with China's Vice Premier Liu He JAN 31: President Donald Trump waits for a meeting with China's Vice Premier Liu He BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI—AFP/Getty Images  by [Billy Perrigo](https://time.com/author/billy-perrigo/)  ## Billy Perrigo Correspondent Feb 1, 2019 1:29 PM UTC President Donald Trump brushed off speculation Thursday that he might choose to stand down instead of running for re-election in 2020, telling the New York _Times_ in an [interview](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/us/politics/trump-wall-investigations-interview.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage): “I love this job.” He also rejected the idea that he was personally profiting from the Presidency. “I lost massive amounts of money doing this job,” he said. According to [_Forbes_](https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2018/10/02/how-trump-is-tryingand-failingto-get-rich-off-his-presidency/#6a453b963b1a), Trump’s net worth dropped from $4.5 billion in 2015 to $3.1 billion in 2018, although _Forbes_ reported that part of that drop could be because of deeper analysis of the President’s finances. Trump added that he doubted he would face a Republican challenger for the party nomination. “I don’t see it,” he told the _Times_. “I have great support in the party.” He said that his support among Republicans was “among the highest polls ever in the history of the Republican party.” He went on, “we’ve had polls as high as 93%, which is the highest there is.” That assertion isn’t accurate, however. Trump’s approval rating among Republicans peaked at 89% in October 2018, according to [Gallup’s Presidential Job Approval Center](https://news.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx). By contrast, President George W. Bush enjoyed a 99% approval rating among Republicans shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. In polls of all adults, President Trump currently has an approval rating of some 38.9%, according to [FiveThirtyEight](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/adults/). In the rest of the wide-ranging interview with the _Times_, Trump also called talks with Democrats over his signature border wall plan a “waste of time,” and expressed confidence he was not personally under investigation in the Mueller probe. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5518416/trump-love-job-2020/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5518416/trump-love-job-2020/"},"headline":"President Trump Shrugs Off Speculation He Might Not Run for Re-election in 2020: 'I Love This Job'","datePublished":"2019-02-01T13:29:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T22:39:14.798Z","description":"President Trump brushed off speculation that he might choose to not seek re-election, telling the New York Times: “I love this job.”","url":"https://time.com/5518416/trump-love-job-2020/","keywords":["Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9549bdce27d19057/6989445f929fad5e72bf29eb/gettyimages-1091954524.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Billy Perrigo","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/billy-perrigo/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9549bdce27d19057/6989445f929fad5e72bf29eb/gettyimages-1091954524.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-CHINA-POLITICS-TRADE-ECONOMY","caption":"US-CHINA-POLITICS-TRADE-ECONOMY","creditText":"BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5518416/trump-love-job-2020/","name":"President Trump Shrugs Off Speculation He Might Not Run for Re-election in 2020: 'I Love This Job'"}}]}] ```