Irish Examiner view: Trump checks his diary dates as election 2024 looms

Former President Donald Trump makes his way to the stage at a rally at the Adams County Fairgrounds in Mendon, Ill., Saturday, June 25, 2022. (Mike Sorensen/Quincy Herald-Whig via AP)

A less modest and more ostentatious politician than Donald Trump may have been tempted by today’s date, July 4, American Independence Day, as a good moment to declare an interest in the 2024 presidential race.

Happily, the Donald is of a different mettle, and so we may pass this particular Monday undisturbed, for now. But this is not to imagine that the former PotUS will leave matters that way for long.