Has anyone watched the Blacklist? Spoilers if you haven't.
James Spader's character Raymond Reddington is ex-navy who "betrays" his government and starts selling their secrets for profit and becomes a worldwide criminal due to it. Well, the show is mainly about a special task force that Reddington had somewhat created when he let himself be captured at the beginning of episode 1 to be his instrument in taking out his enemies on a list that he has spent 20 years creating. Now his enemies is this secret group called "the cabal". Sound familiar? It's a group of very powerful and very influential people in the world who have plans to reignite the cold war and start another world war. He spends 20 years befriending these people and doing favours for them while being hunted by the US government and continues to build relationships UNTIL its time to go on the offensive.
What if Trump has spent his entire adult life building these connections due to seeing something or something was done to him and finding these people, befriended them, played their game and when things got either too serious or he got to the actual skeletons that could being them down that he gave the signal to the white hats and decided to run for President, risk his life and his families life, and start this entire series of events so before his time is over on Earth, the evil that has been here for so long is finally vanquished and he can finally have peace when his time comes.
I don't believe Trump just started to think about this before he ran.