Donald Trump has revealed Mitt Romney as his endorsement for the Republican presidential nomination. This endorsement, however, comes with the stipulation that if Romney is not chosen as the Republican nominee, Trump himself will run as a third-party candidate in the election this fall.

Hearing this news, I can only imagine that the Obama campaign is popping bottles, dancing the lambada and making general merry.

Republicans, on the other hand, should be quaking in their boots. With Donald Trump still considering a run and not displaying a great deal of faith in the current field of candidates, times look dark for the right-wing party.

Donald appears to be on some sort of mission from God, moving on from his birther crusade and now determined to dethrone President Obama and place the crown upon his own head or that of the person whom he has deemed a worthy successor. The thought of Trump running, even as a third-party candidate, should be completely ignored by voters who take the election seriously.

Since the 2000 election, Trump has been dropping his name as a potential contender for the race, never actually following through. Last year alone he waffled numerous times on whether or not he would, in fact, run in the race.

This makes this grand gesture seem like nothing more than a media ploy, a chance to get his name in the news. In a desperate attempt to become more relevant than the man who says, “You’re fired,” Trump has become the little boy who cried “president.”

Furthermore, if Trump so vehemently wants Obama out of office, he would never consider running as a third-party candidate for fear of splitting the Republican vote. Even if he thought he was a viable candidate against the Republican nominee and Obama, the public should then ask whether or not they think he could actually run the country.

People have already expressed concerns about Mitt Romney and his campaign in regards to his vast amount of wealth. Voters already question whether they want a CEO in the Oval Office and feel distant from to him because of his wealth and his status as a member of the “1 percent.”

If they have these concerns about Mitt Romney, I cannot imagine they would not have any for Trump. His personal net worth is in the billions, as compared to Romney’s millions, firmly placing him in the “1 percent.”

Regardless of what Trump is attempting to do, be it generate political clout he can later swing around to his advantage, or simply get more air time and possibly a few more viewers of “The Apprentice,” this needs to stop.

This “will he, won’t he” should be left for his NBC reality show and excluded from an election that will help shape the future of our great nation.