Trump Returning To Stage As He Flirts With 2024 Run

While Trump has made no official announcement, the 74-year-old billionaire has openly floated the idea of a new run in November 2024, and his every word is being scrutinized.

Banished from social networks but no less influential among the Republican faithful, Donald Trump was set to return to the stage Saturday for his first speech in months as he flirts ever more openly with a new presidential run in 2024. "I understand the place will be packed, all records broken!" the former president, his flair for showmanship undiminished, said in announcing the planned speech in Greenville, North Carolina to a convention of that southeastern state's Republican Party. Organizers said all 1,250 tickets to the evening event had sold out. That number is far smaller than the thousands Trump regularly drew to his campaign rallies around the country, but his followers' expectations are high for his first major public speech since February.