By Thomas Durante
Last updated at 12:10 AM on 3rd January 2012
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, The Donald is back.
An activist group has filed paperwork in Texas that would allow real estate mogul Donald Trump to seek a third-party presidential bid.
The documents, filed on Friday, permit Trump to make a White House run on the 'Make America Great Again Party' ticket, TheBlaze.com reported.
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Another try? An activist group has filed paperwork in Texas that would allow real estate mogul Donald Trump to seek a third-party presidential bid.
With this development, Mr Trump - who has a reputation as the Brett Favre of politics - is once again mulling the idea of a presidential run in 2012.
In a statement to TheBlaze.com, Mr Trump admits he was surprised by the Texas movement to get him on the ballot.
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He said: 'I am aware and flattered by this filing by my supporters in Texas. I have not authorized anyone to act on my behalf and am not a candidate for president at this time.'
But whether he decides to run, Mr Trump says, will fall on who the Republicans put up to run against President Obama.
Republican influence: Last year, Mr Trump has the reputation as a kingmaker, with Republican figures from Sarah Palin to Newt Gingrich coming to New York for high-profile meetings with him
He said in the statement:? 'I will not... rule out a third-party candidacy if the Republicans nominate a candidate who cannot defeat Obama and I recently changed my party registration in New York state to preserve my legal option to appear on the ballot in all 50 states if I do decide to run.'
He singled out Ron Paul, who is surging ahead of the Iowa caucuses tomorrow, as a candidate he would not like to see as a GOP candidate.
He told Fox News this morning: 'When somebody like Ron Paul gets such a large percentage of the votes, potentially, I look at the polls and I think it?s absolutely madness to even think about it.'
Donald Trump announced on Christmas Eve that he was leaving the Republican Party after GOP candidates spurned him and refused to attend a debate he was moderating.
A POLITICAL SIDESHOW?
Pundits and D.C. insiders have called Donald Trump's presidential ambitions a 'political sideshow' for their irreverence and inconsistency. Here are a few details of the Donald's political history:
- Considered running as a fiscally-conservative, socially-liberal third-party candidate in 2000
- Joined the Democratic Party in 2001
- Criticized President George W. Bush for starting the Iraq War
- Floated running for president in 2004 and 2008 -- but didn't
- Joined the Republican Party in 2009
- Surged to the top of some 2012 GOP primary polls after re-igniting President Obama's 'birth certificate' debate
- Decided not to run for president May 16 after a month of media speculation
The billionaire's allies have said he left because he was 'disgusted' by Republicans in Congress and he is considering a third-party presidential run of his own.
But a headline debate that Mr Trump was planning to moderate flopped after only Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum said they would participate.
Despite his announcement in May that he would not seek the Republican presidential nomination, the Donald has kept alive speculation about a bid for the White House this year - as he did in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
But with Mr Trump's reality show Celebrity Apprentice set to premiere in February, some have raised the prospect that he?s only flirting with a presidential bid to boost ratings.
Mr Trump's allegiance to the Republican Party didn't last long; he only joined in 2009. He had been a registered Democrat since 2001.
His name recognition and vast fortune, estimated at about $2.8billion, helped him surge to the top of one early poll, though pundits criticized him as a 'political sideshow.'
Mr Trump, also has the reputation as a kingmaker, with Republican figures from Sarah Palin to Newt Gingrich coming to New York for high-profile meetings with him.
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