Billionaire former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said in a TV interview that he is looking into running against Donald Trump¹ in 2020 as an independent presidential candidate.

 

星巴克前CEO霍华德·舒尔茨在一个电视访谈节目中表示，2020年他将作为独立总统候选人与特朗普竞争。
 

 

"I am seriously thinking of running for president," Schultz told the CBS news show "60 Minutes" late Sunday.

 

The self-described "lifelong Democrat²" said he "will run as a centrist independent outside of the two-party system."

 

According to Schultz, 65, "We're living at a most fragile time."

 

Not only is Trump "not qualified³ to be the president," but Republicans and Democrats⁴ "are consistently not doing what's necessary on behalf of the American people and are engaged, every single day, in revenge politics."

 

Schultz grew up in a working class neighborhood in New York City, but made his fortune when he moved to the northwestern state of Washington in the 1980s and built Starbucks into a global coffee shop behemoth.

 

Schultz blamed both parties for the country's $21.5 trillion debt, which he portrayed⁵ as "a reckless example" of the "failure of their constitutional responsibility."

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